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  • Leigh Alexander
    3:48 am Thu, Jun 11, 2015
    You can start making your own games today. Yes, you!

    There's a new, great resource-gathering tool designed for folks new to game-making. Here's why you should check it out.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    3:20 am Thu, Jun 11, 2015
    This hilarious topical guessing game is ten bucks and fits in your pocket

    One of my favorite social card games is offering you something new.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    10:27 am Wed, Jun 10, 2015
    Wouldn't it be great if Ellen Ripley from Alien was your therapist?

    Think through trauma and anxiety in a therapy group of film "final girls."

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  • Leigh Alexander
    9:28 am Wed, Jun 10, 2015
    This game will make your morning coffee seem kind of scary

    Keurig coffee machines, with their clunking lever, digital menu and environmentally-hazardous pods, are already kind of creepy—and that's even before you're hooked on their precious, precious dark caffeine.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    11:03 am Tue, Jun 9, 2015
    Treat yourself to a playful series of mysterious packages

    The Mysterious Package Company will send you or a friend weird surprises that slowly form a story over time.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    9:55 am Tue, Jun 9, 2015
    Explore worlds generated by poems

    Watch this video on YouTube Astaeria is a "first-person poetry visualizer" by Emma—select a poem, and an abstract world of colors and shapes blossoms around that poem, with procedurally-generated music.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:04 am Mon, Jun 8, 2015
    Our favorite Splatoon memes, straight from the Miiverse

    "Mom left us at Best Buy :("

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:10 am Mon, Jun 8, 2015
    Play it now: You Are A Hoverboard

    You Are A Hoverboard, by Chris Wade, is a few loveable steps beyond your usual physics toy: It's a world where animal friends open their hearts to help you out,… Read the rest of the article: Play it now: You Are A Hoverboard

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  • Leigh Alexander
    3:43 am Mon, Jun 8, 2015
    Longtime woman game dev on being a 'cultural fit'

    Laralyn McWilliams has been in the video game business for half her life, and shares thoughtful insights on the invisible but implicit bill of cultural rules that still govern the industry.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    3:13 am Mon, Jun 8, 2015
    Sweet, sleepy days ahead for fans of farming sims

    World's Dawn is a charming tribute to a beloved genre.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:33 am Thu, Jun 4, 2015
    #GamesSoWhite hashtag attempts conversation about race in games, and goes as well as you'd expect

    People on Twitter are using the #GamesSoWhite hashtag to start conversations about whiteness as "default" in video games and fantasy in general. They're brave.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    5:23 am Thu, Jun 4, 2015
    Home is where the future of games is

    Forget about the wasteland for a while. The best new games are set inside the places where you live.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    2:52 am Thu, Jun 4, 2015
    Get in on this indie music rhythm shooter

    Watch this video on YouTube There're just a couple days left to back LOUD on Planet X, a music game about fighting aliens that features the work of artists like… Read the rest of the article: Get in on this indie music rhythm shooter

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  • Leigh Alexander
    8:12 am Tue, Jun 2, 2015
    Wonderful old video game art coupled with haunting prompts

    I've found a beautiful and mysterious Tumblr that combines (what look like) old, obscure video game screenshots with (what look like) snippets of original fiction. As is so often the… Read the rest of the article: Wonderful old video game art coupled with haunting prompts

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  • Leigh Alexander
    7:01 am Tue, Jun 2, 2015
    How 'gamer' taste makes life harder for game developers

    "Stepping into games is like arriving at a cheese-tasting party where most of the crowd is angrily murmuring that cheddar and swiss are always and objectively the best cheeses."

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  • Leigh Alexander
    6:38 am Tue, Jun 2, 2015
    Play it now: I FIND MYSELF [________]

    This is a game about things on a table. I'm not even sure what I find so lovable about it—the time I went to put a cassette in its player… Read the rest of the article: Play it now: I FIND MYSELF [________]

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  • Leigh Alexander
    10:32 am Mon, Jun 1, 2015
    The surprising games people made with public domain works

    Tired of Cthulu and zombies? Try some games about Dorian Gray, H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, and many other fruits of a jam themed around public domain works.

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  • Leigh Alexander
    10:14 am Mon, Jun 1, 2015
    Why don't female protagonists often get to date?

    Little by little we're seeing more believable women characters in some of our video games, but what about their romantic options?

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  • Leigh Alexander
    8:46 am Mon, Jun 1, 2015
    Play rock, paper, scissors with musical cowboys

    Rhythm Ranger – Prototype GameplayWatch this video on YouTube The lonesome but spirited march of Western music and a stripe of desert sunset forms the backdrop of a creative new… Read the rest of the article: Play rock, paper, scissors with musical cowboys

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  • Leigh Alexander
    9:03 am Fri, May 29, 2015
    I clicked one of those 'sexy' browser game ads so you don't have to

    We've all seen them; Ads featuring computer-generated women (or occasionally Kate Upton), promising a uniquely sexy game experience. I tried it. Wanna know what it was like?

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