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Indie Week: Closer Look at Pixel Piracy
Twelve years after a rough Early Access exit, Quadro Delta’s crew-management pirate sim is being kept alive by an unofficial patch, and its worst ideas still…
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Setting Up a Team Brawler is More Complicated Than Many Realize
Four players, melee weapons and forty milliseconds of disagreement. Designers at three studios explain why the crowd-brawler genre…
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Behind the Tourist Spots in Brussels
The Grand-Place takes nine minutes to photograph. What the coach tours skip, a Congolese high street, a working…
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The Model Under the Desk
Two monitors, a second-hand accelerator and no inference bill. Small studios are quietly moving the work back onto…
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‘Alien Isolation’ is the Best Game in the Franchise Since ‘Alien vs. Predator’
Creative Assembly built one alien, gave it a memory, and let it wander. Two decades of licensed shooters…
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Hotline Miami is Action Packed Son of a Game
Two hits and a locked door. Dennaton’s top-down massacre works because it never lets you feel skilled for…
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Agencies Around the World Are Planning Their Next Lunar Trips
Nine landers, five agencies and one patch of cratered ground the size of a county. The hardest part…
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The Solar Flare of 1859, and What It Would Mean Today
In 1859 a geomagnetic storm set telegraph paper alight and let operators send messages with the batteries disconnected. The modern equivalent would…
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Test Your Survival Skills with Project Zomboid
Knox County kills you with a scratch, a hangover and a badly stored tin of beans. Twelve years on, the zombie sim…
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Asseto Corsa: The Racing Suimulator You’ll Love
A twelve-year-old racing game still runs the biggest online endurance events in the hobby, kept current by a modding scene that has…
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First Look at The Long Dark’s Gorgeous World
Great Bear Island has no monsters and no other people. Hinterland built a survival game where the antagonist is weather, and the…
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