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  • Rockstar Games Adds a Casino to GTA Online

    Jul 23

    It might seem like a casino where you can spend your actual, finite paycheck would be a no-brainer in a game where you can kill literally anyone you see, but it complicates an already quite complicated conversation regarding developer and…

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  • Indie PC and Console Classic Hyper Light Drifter Coming to iOS, Android

    Jul 23

    Hyper Light Drifter is coming to mobile platforms on July 25, 2019.

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  • Photo Gallery: Sky: Children of the Light

    Jul 19

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  • First Impressions – Sky: Children of the Light

    Jul 19

    Sky: Children of the Light was announced onstage at the September 2017 Apple Special Event as a title for the just-announced Apple TV 4K. Delays set the project back quite a ways, but now that it’s finally in our hands,…

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  • To Be The Very Best: A Brief and Personal History of Pokémon GO

    Jul 18

    The simplest explanation for the game’s success is probably also the best one: the experience of joy one gets from playing GO is what Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri, and the late former Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata, wanted with Pokémon all…

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  • In Final Fantasy XV, tiny moments add up to a big payoff

    Jul 18

    As I was walking toward Holly’s location near the power plant entrance to finish the sidequest where I checked all the power pylons for damage, a quick-time event popped up on my screen for a split second.

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  • Fez for iOS is Beautiful, but Broken

    Jul 18

    I imagine it must be incredibly difficult for any developer to port a game like Fez, which had complicated controls on consoles to begin with, to mobile.

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  • In Oxenfree, the End is Never the End is Never the End.

    Jul 17

    OXENFREE is centered around a group of teenagers, loosely led by main protagonist Alex, who snuck onto — and are trying to get off of — a nearly-abandoned island that harbors a dark extradimensional secret. Its two main plot-forwarding devices: a…

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  • Dandara is a radical Metroidvania about reclaiming art from fascists

    Jul 16

    Dandara, a Metroidvania-style platformer from Long Hat House and publisher Raw Fury, has been out on all platforms for a while, but I only just recently completed it on iPadOS. To be completely honest, I got so frustrated with the…

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