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The best Pokemon rip-offs of the early 2000s

At the risk of sounding like an old timey crank, things used to be different. Back in the early 2000s, we had blatant Pokemon clones as well, but they had PANACHE! They had to stand...

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Pokemon Go hearkens back to the fun, and danger, of summers past

Pokémon Go may be the perfect summer game.

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Why 2016 is the perfect time for a noir thriller about the Berlin Wall

All Walls Must Fall is the brainchild of four developers behind 2012’s celebrated action game Spec Ops: The Line. Set in an alternate-history Berlin where the wall nev...

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The increasingly complex world of cheating in videogames

Cheating is as old as gaming, but it still presents brand new problems. Gone are the days of simple cheat codes in secluded sessions between player and machine. In their place, a booming new business ...

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Chance To Hit – The Psychology of Probability In Video Games

Do you ever feel like probability is a load of codswallop? That the odds are just a farce? That the 90% punctuality rate boasted by your train operator in no way reflects their actual performance, or ...

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The zombie apocalypse, 10 years on

10 years ago, the city of Malton underwent a government-imposed quarantine due to a zombie outbreak. Not literally, but virtually. This happened in a browser-based online game called Urban Dead...

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Inside the two-toned creepiness of The Shrouded Isle

The Shrouded Isle is a “cult village management simulator.” That’s the tagline for the game on the website. You manage a village of cultists. Imagine a visual novel about ancient gods with a si...

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Dream Daddy invites you to make your own 'Dadsona'

“I’m in art college,” explains Leighton Gray, art director and co-creator of Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator. “We were talking about furry culture and Fursonas and all the different perso...

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Talking Games with Psychologist Laura Crawford

She has recently worked with Nexon on their MMO Riders of Icarus, providing insight into player psychology for the team and explaining the processes of embodiment that players exper...

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CivAnon and 'Just one more turn': how Civilization sucks us in

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Firewatch shows that yes, you can make games for grown-ups

The video contains story spoilers for Cibele and Firewatch.