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  • Leigh Alexander
    1:13 pm Wed, Jul 22, 2015
    This subtle desert horror fiction will haunt you

    As you traverse a sparse, meditative desert, you collect the fragments of a strange memoir murmuring against the air, drawing you ever closer to the stark shape of a great pyramid.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    2:17 pm Tue, Jul 21, 2015
    These surreal, unforgettable little works will expand your concept of 'games'

    Now is a better time than ever to get acquainted with the prolific, unique works of Jack King-Spooner, whose numerous vignettes combine surreal, textured visual collages and abstract themes with a smooth, easy dream logic.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:42 am Tue, Jul 21, 2015
    Try gay orc dating with Tusks: The Orc Dating Simulator

    If you have ever thought of being a male orc adventuring, traveling and bonding with all kinds of other male orcs, this enchanting, refreshing and lovingly-made romance game is for you.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:32 am Tue, Jul 21, 2015
    Lose yourself in this trippy, existential interactive picturebook

    In this meditative digital adventure, whorled iridescent shapes and glittering contrails that follow your mouse recall the magic of the early web, or some acid-dipped Microsoft Encarta CD-ROM.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    10:03 am Mon, Jul 20, 2015
    Medical science and creepy conspiracy collide in this futuristic diagnosis game

    If you follow the instructions and master the diagnosis equipment, everything will be fine. Or will it?

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:38 am Mon, Jul 20, 2015
    Offworld Monday roundup: Empathy, criticism and being filthy in the shower

    One thing that's really important to us is to be able to critique things we love, and to embrace the idea that sometimes a conversation is more important than a right answer

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  • Leigh Alexander
    10:07 am Fri, Jul 17, 2015
    Play it now: You Are A Horse

    You Are A Horse is a Twine game where you are a horse. Who robs a bank.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    3:07 am Tue, Jul 14, 2015
    Pixeljunk Eden's Baiyon to direct his own romantic adventure game

    Popular Kyoto-based multimedia artist Baiyon, best known for the impeccable PixelJunk Eden, will direct his own 'romantic adventure' game, about love and human incompleteness.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    2:46 am Tue, Jul 14, 2015
    Procedurally-generated moths are wonderfully haunting, plausible

    Straddling the odd line between science and nature, this amazing new procedural generator pays striking tribute to the dusty, incandescent bodies of moths.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    2:26 am Tue, Jul 14, 2015
    Nintendo's Iwata aimed to 'satisfy people’s need to be happy'

    The New Yorker's lovely postscript on Nintendo president Satoru Iwata gathers moving, thoughtful reflections on a man whose enthusiasm for game development and play mattered to so many.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:08 am Mon, Jul 13, 2015
    Mobile game of the week: Alphabear

    A dangerously-captivating and adorable word game provides depth and simplicity at the same time.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    12:27 pm Fri, Jul 10, 2015
    Why Final Fantasy VII matters

    Logos flicker on failing monitors, propped up in a quilt of urban junk. Light glitters on seawater beneath jutting pylons. Flowers swell up from the broken floorboards of an abandoned church…

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  • Leigh Alexander
    2:32 am Thu, Jul 9, 2015
    Every item in Katamari Damacy, Tweeted

    It seems like you can't possibly count every single detailed dollhouse object in the well-loved Katamari Damacy, but someone is trying—and the item descriptions are even funnier than you remember.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    10:18 am Wed, Jul 8, 2015
    Arrow Hero is a brutal little game and I can't stop playing it

    It's both awesome and irksome, fun and fricative, that precious little psychic median from whence the only onward course is always just again.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    9:47 am Wed, Jul 8, 2015
    Listen to the Goldeneye 007 soundtrack as it was always meant to be heard

    Did you know about audio compression related to tech limitations? Today, enjoy some nostalgic, amazing game tracks free of such auld constraints. Takes you right back.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    2:34 am Tue, Jul 7, 2015
    The 5 best uses of a cell phone in video games

    Plenty of games have cell phones in them, but the best is when we're made to think about our relationships to those devices and what we use them for.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    8:54 am Mon, Jul 6, 2015
    DOG WOLVE shows how game spaces can create cool music videos

    Ryan Trawick celebrates a remix of Dragonette's I Get Around ('Here I come with a Big Gulp'?) with a unique and weirdly-fitting virtual space.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    8:10 am Mon, Jul 6, 2015
    Mobile game of the week: Sleep Furiously

    Sleep Furiously Game PreviewWatch this video on YouTube Dreams can be impossible to explain, but still make a strange kind of internal sense. So are the sentences you make in… Read the rest of the article: Mobile game of the week: Sleep Furiously

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  • Leigh Alexander
    2:52 am Mon, Jul 6, 2015
    Last week on the colony: Monday, July 6

    Last Week on the Colony is a new, regular Monday item here on Offworld, a special satellite transmission designed to highlight our favorite Offworld stories, wonderful trends, and the stories from elsewhere in the galaxy that got us talking

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  • Leigh Alexander
    2:56 am Fri, Jul 3, 2015
    Changing the conversation around games with fashion and ballet

    A high-style photo shoot pays tribute to fluid movement, with a line of gorgeous fashion scarves. Is this really 'video game marketing'? Yes, and more, Mare Sheppard explains.

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