Laura Michet

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The Wailing review

The rural Korean village of Gokseong has a problem. People are killing one another in frenzies of homicidal glee. They’re also growing rashes and boils all over their bodies, erupting in foul-mouthed...

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Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor review impressions

Picking up trash in Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is honestly not that bad. It’s entertaining, actually — which is a big departure from other games I’ve played which are about living in povert...

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Beglitched review impressions

The first three “levels” of Beglitched are extremely, deceptively easy.

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Clustertruck review impressions

Let’s get this out of the way: Landfall Games’ Clustertruck is a first-person platforming/bizarro-parkour game where the play area is made up of hundreds of of identical, bright-white, high-spe...

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Mu Cartographer review impressions

I first heard of Mu Cartographer during the Experimental Gameplay Workshop at GDC this March. The EGW is a (relatively) long-running GDC event designed to highlight truly weird game de...

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Pokemon Go updates to 1.0.1 on iOS, claims to fix Google account permissions issue

Pokemon Go for iOS– the US store, anyway– just got an app update that claims to address some security concerns and bugs– and adds push notifications.

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Did someone say Farming Simulator 17?

Are you excited to learn some things about Farming Simulator 17?

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Valley gives you super-legs-- and lets you do a LOT of jumping

Remember Slender? (Slender: The Arrival, specifically?) Its small development team — Blue Isle Studios — has grown, and the new project they’re working on is bigger, too. They’ve gone fr...

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Rare's new pirate game, Sea of Thieves, hits the open ocean later this year

Possibly the most genuinely fun-looking gameplay reveal during microsoft’s press conference was for Sea of Thieves, the Rare-developed pirate MMO announced during last year’s Microsoft...

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Videogame April Foolery 2016

Sometimes, April Fool’s jokes are just boring. Other times, they’re potentially disastrous. Most videogame companies’ jokes are also a little sad—wouldn’t it be great if games were actually as...

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GoNNER: a game where you collect hidden trinkets for a gigantic whale

At this year’s GDC, the strangest thing I saw that wasn’t in a VR headset was definitely GoNNER.

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Devil Daggers Review Impressions

Hooo boy, Devil Daggers. Devil Daggers. My longest gameplay session in Devil Daggers is eighty-six seconds long. From what I can tell, this is a pretty OK score.

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Conarium is lore-heavy Lovecraft

If Conarium can claim anything, it can claim that it’s accurate to the HP Lovecraft Experience. It’s got accurate Elder Things! References to mythology and the occult! Language patterns and foibles dr...

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Epic is getting very serious about things that aren't games

The most surprising moment of the Unreal Engine keynote at GDC this year came about halfway through, when a curtain pulled back to reveal a gigantic, naked car chassis covered in QR-esque symbols. Thi...

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How does your Trainer Level affect your experience in Pokemon Go?

Leveling up isn’t something that happens to Pokemon in Pokemon Go– it only happens to you, the Trainer, and it’s the main thing that gates off features and mechanics in this game. Every...

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How to save battery power in Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go is a massive drain on phone batteries– when I’m playing, it’s not unusual for me to eat 30% of my battery on a decent walk around my neighborhood. Niantic’s previous game, Ingress, was also...

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What's going on with EA Originals and Fe?

During the EA press conference earlier today in Los Angeles, one of EA’s several incredibly clean and shiny spokesmen (in this case: Patrick Soderlund) was already halfway through describing the new E...

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Nightmares I've had since I started playing Overwatch

I’ve played too much Overwatch and now my entire mind is melting.

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Reaper Names is my favorite Overwatch joke right now

You start a match of Overwatch. Your allies appear on the character select screen. One name out of the five catches your eye: