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Pushcat raises the stakes on match-3 games by including enemies and side-scrolling levels. The chiptunes Mussorgsky is, additionally, completely rad in a classical music nerd way.

Telltale’s zombie adventure game The Walking Dead requires players to make tough decisions, like when to kill an infected human. The fourth episode in the five-part series drove Kotaku’s Tina Amini to her limits. What a powerful, emotionally evocative game The Walking Dead is. When I play games I ty

In promoting the 3DS, celebrities descibe themselves as anything but gamers. Wired’s Ryan Rigney explains why: Being a “gamer” isn’t cool. It never has been, and the surging popularity of mobile games will never change that. Most people, even those who play lots of videogames, are just unwilling to

Recommending good games is one of the easiest pleasures that comes from having a little expertise as a game player. When G. Christopher Williams’s daughter asked for a game to play, he chose Prince of Persia.  I felt pretty sure that she would enjoy the premise of two fantastical characters, like th

Journey‘s soundtrack is a gorgeous orchestral opus; but did you notice all the sand sounds and flapping sounds? Sound designer Steve Johnson shared some of the creative process behind making the sound effects for Journey at Gamasutra, not unlike our piece on Diablo III‘s sound effect production. All