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GAME TIME: TOMB RAIDER

Posted on March 11, 2013 by LAURA GUBATA

Before Crystal Dynamics showed off their first demo of the new Tomb Raider, they warned us that this wouldn’t be the Lara we remembered–and they were right. Continue reading →

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GAME TIME: SODA DRINKER PRO: THE FIRST PERSON SODA SIMULATOR

Posted on February 19, 2013 by CARLI VELOCCI

Maybe its realism is what makes Soda Drinker Pro, a soda-drinking simulation game, such an intriguing title. Or maybe it’s the insanity of its incredible inanity. Continue reading →

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GAME TIME: PROTEUS

Posted on February 12, 2013 by CARLI VELOCCI

If the player goes in and knows that this is more about the nature of the game–about existing in a virtual world that plays with the idea of landscape, and leaves the player alone with their thoughts and connections–then Proteus presents a very intimate and interesting experience. Continue reading →

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INSIDE THE INDIES: SUBALTERN GAMES

Posted on February 7, 2013 by CARLI VELOCCI

You are staring at a map of the world, except it is not the world that you remember. It is upside-down. It is a bit unsettling, but you continue to bankrupt countries, gaining more power and more money to put into your Swiss bank account. You ruin everything. This isn’t exactly the real world. This is Neocolonialism, a PC video game created by local studio Subaltern Games. Continue reading →

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GAME TIME: HOW TO MAKE A BAD GAME WITH PRIMAL FEARS

Posted on January 28, 2013 by CARLI VELOCCI

Developers, take note. This is not how you make a good game. Continue reading →

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GAME TIME: RETRO CITY RAMPAGE

Posted on November 8, 2012 by CARLI VELOCCI

Retro City straddles this line between fond nostalgia and cheap knockoff, neither staying put on either side, and never creating an exact opinion for many players. Continue reading →

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GAME TIME HALLOWEEN EDITION: SCP CONTAINMENT BREACH

Posted on October 11, 2012 by CARLI VELOCCI

SCP Containment Breach takes you inside the SCP Foundation, a collection of the strangest creatures and horror stories hidden from the general public. They are an organization dedicated to your safety, and something has gone horribly wrong. Continue reading →

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GAME TIME HALLOWEEN EDITION: SLENDER: THE EIGHT PAGES

Posted on October 4, 2012 by CARLI VELOCCI

Slender is the game that has made the Internet collectively sh-t its pants. Continue reading →

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PREVIEW: BOSTON FESTIVAL FOR INDIE GAMES

Posted on September 19, 2012 by CARLI VELOCCI

Between gigantic monoliths like PAX East, big names like Harmonix and Irrational, and dozens upon dozens of studios working on that next big thing, Boston has become a mecca for gaming. Continue reading →

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GAME TIME: THEY BLEED PIXELS

Posted on September 17, 2012 by CARLI VELOCCI

This indie, 2-D platformer is all about being straight-forward. It’s a game called They Bleed Pixels. There is going to be a lot of blood and a lot of pixels. There are absolutely no reservations that a player can have about it. Continue reading →

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GAME TIME: UNMECHANICAL

Posted on September 4, 2012 by CARLI VELOCCI

The unique atmosphere is Unmechanical’s greatest accomplishment, but this leads also to its greatest flaw. Continue reading →

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GAME ON: THE WALKING DEAD

Posted on August 10, 2012 by JIM WELLS

The “zombie survival” genre has been bludgeoning the figurative (un)dead horse for years now. Thankfully— like the comic and TV sensation it draws its inspiration from— The Walking Dead has the guts to do something different: humanize the zombie apocalypse. Continue reading →

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