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A new studio where people who don’t like videogames make videogames

Montreal-based programmer Brie Code has set up a new studio called Tru Luv Media that aims to make videogames with the help of people who don’t like videogames. The reason being that she wants her friends and people like them to care about games. These are people for who videogames do not resonate at all, mostly because they draw from the same cultural references time and again, use the same design principles, and are primarily made for people who already play videogames—there’s nothing there for anyone else. Code herself has worked on games for a number of years at Ubisoft…
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Unsurprisingly, Jonathan Blow hates watermarks on top of pretty games

Add corporate watermarks to the ever-growing catalogue of stuff that Jonathan Blow has publicly hated on on Twitter, along with achievements and those despicable Sony smart-wigs.  But let’s back up. It seems watchers are being presented with a Ubisoft logo in the lower right corner of the screen when they tune in to live, streaming sessions of Child of Light to catch a few iambic nursery rhymes. In response to the general chorus of “Who cares” by Polygon commenters, Blow tweeted:   Then in response to the response to that Tweet, he tweeted: The general attitude of these millennials is…
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This winsome RPG has Earthbound written all over it

You can get a distinctive whiff of Earthbound-ness in the new trailer for Citizens of Earth, which if you recall is the scent of scratch-and-sniff pizza. The endearing cult JRPG that bombed on Super Nintendo but lives on on Virtual Console and in the collective heart of the Internet hasn’t seen too many homages, surprisingly. And though the cast of brave tikes taking on an alien invasion with yo-yos and baseball bats has been replaced with a quirky entourage of adults, you can definitely see the influence. The odd messages in the scrolling text during turn-based combat, the weirdos inhabiting…