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Cheat your way to Success in ‘Classroom Aquatic’, a Fintastic VR Experience

ASK ANY fan of The Simpsons and they will tell you without hesitation that dolphins are exceptionally intelligent creatures. They might speak in unintelligible clicks and use echolocation to hunt out a good meal, but the extensive brain curvature of these ocean-bound warriors exceeds even that of homo sapiens. Despite this, one important question still remains unanswered …

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Confronting, Brutal and Grotesque: ‘Death Trash’ oozes Post-Apocalyptic Glamour

GRUNGE IS officially in. Ripped jeans, bleached hair, piercings and violence against a backdrop of sludge coated wastelands that reek of decay. This is the world of Death Trash, a game that dares to open Pandora’s box and explore humanity through a forbidden, anti-authoritarian lens, and it’s awfully intriguing. Developer Stephan Hövelbrinks is no stranger to game design, but as he explains, Death Trash is his …

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Top 15 Modern N64-Inspired 3D Platformers

For a while, it seemed that the beloved 3D platformer had fizzled out and turned into stardust. Battered old cartridges lacking the crisp, shiny sleekness of CDs lay forgotten amongst the cobwebs, like ancient treasures that Indiana Jones might discover. Gamers had apparently moved on. Just a cursory glance at Steam’s most played games reveals a list rife …

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The Era of Virtual Reality Begins With Weather — Symphony of the Machine

The world of video games is changing. Emergent technologies like the Oculus Rift, Playstation VR and HTC Vive have rapidly gained traction within a console dominated market and I’m starting to get the feeling we’re closer to having Star Trek holodecks than ever before. Was it really that long ago when we played The Sims …

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‘Gone Home’ expands the territory of conventional videogame storytelling

As a teenager, I felt I would never age. Yet I also knew I would, and more than that, I could anticipate that when I did, everything would change. So I stood then, with confused ideas about time. The future would never arrive, yet it was also imminent. Now, my teenage years were horribly boring and sexless, so I was certainly looking forward to some sort of revolution. It was only a matter of emerging out the far side of high school, into the end of the world as I knew it. Life is a succession of points of no return, and if we find apocalyptic stories about crashing asteroids and alien invasions so absorbing, it might be because they exaggerate this fact. Popular fiction brims with characters who undergo processes of self-discovery while everything around them burns, from The Lord of the Rings to Akira. Watershed moments can be as monumental as they can be personal and private, and though graduating high school or parting with your family are not exactly comparable to a tidal wave, such commonplace events can inspire fear and trembling regardless.

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SuperHot brings fresh element to first person shooters

SuperHot Blue Brick Unity It is rare for a first-person-shooter to feel like anything but a point and shoot game, but SuperHot manages to add a refreshing spin to an old genre-time.  Time moves only when you do. This time bending game is brought to you by the crafty minds at Blue Brick who churned …

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