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Beamdog teases a return to Baldur’s Gate–and to the Infinity Engine
Looks like a goddamn town meeting. A curious feature of today’s games industry is that even as it races to exploit new devices, input methods, and abusive payment schemes, it’s still got plenty of room...
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Twelve winters of grief: Vidar is a puzzler/RPG inspired by Beowulf
I’d like mine with pepperoni, please. If you went by screenshots alone, you’d be hard pressed to pick out Vidar from all the other pixel-art puzzle-RPGs on the market. And I’m afraid I spoil nothing by...
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We’re gonna need a bigger Karma Pool: Shadowrun: Hong Kong adds stretch goals
The net’s going black, JC. When the Kickstarter went live for Shadowrun: Hong Kong, it was funded about as quickly as a Snakehead doc swaps out a kidney–which is to say, within hours. Now less than a...
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Out Now: Double Dragon Trilogy, HyperRogue, Avernum 2 and more
Billy ain’t afraid of no man. Leather tights, chain whips, and mohawks: as ’80s flashbacks go, this one’s my least traumatic yet. Double Dragon Trilogy is comprised of all three original arcade games,...
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Out Now: Dying Light, Grim Fandango Remastered, Jedi Knight and more
See you at the party, rigor. As tired as the zombie genre seems–I mean really, how many good shirts must I lose to the foul ichor of the damned?–the truth is there’s always room for a zombie game done...
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They blabbed about Mars: Offworld Trading Company gets its first video
Home in time for Corn Flakes. Soren “best of all Civs” Johnson’s been a busy bee since founding his new studio–as evinced by the screens and video released today. Offworld Trading Company, the economic...
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Neither here nor there: STRAFE is a throwback FPS (or wants you to think it is)
Say fella, where ya headed? I do so long for the time when quad damage was an essential part of the gaming lexicon. STRAFE is a gleeful throwback FPS modeled on id Software’s Quake–so much so that its...
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Out Now: Apotheon, Sunless Sea, Wickland and more
Ode on a Grecian burn. If the term red slip suggests more to you than lingerie, then the side-scrolling platformer Apotheon is your game. That it’s been so well received is almost secondary to the...
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