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Muse answers the question: What if John Lennon helped create Earthbound?

Announced at Kyoto’s Bitsummit 2015, Muse: Together is the New Alone is the latest from Pixeljunk Eden art/music director Baiyon. Developed and published by Pygmy Studio, Muse seeks to take players out of this world with its own unique spin on an unrequited love story. Muse takes notes from Zelda II as it tells the story of a young, small-town girl trapped in an eternal slumber and the boy questing to awaken her. When the boy discovers mysterious notes and paintings belonging to the girl, he follows them in hopes of bringing her back to the waking world, and finds…
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Noby Noby Girl reaches Neptune; earthbound Boys rejoice

Around March 9th, 2014, GIRL became the first worm-like quadrupedal videogame character launched from Earth to reach Neptune. She did this thanks to the untold hours of hard work by players of Noby Noby Boy, Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi’s game about stretching, which allowed players to submit their “total amount of stretching” points to a global pool. This pool determined how far the spacefaring GIRL, in turn, had traveled, unlocking new levels as she reached each planet. Despite developer estimates of one to two weeks, players collected enough points for GIRL to reach the moon within four days. The last milestone was…
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The dream of virtual foosball is alive and well…in Jordan

Stateside, a good game of foosball can be hard to come by. If you manage to find a table, it’ll probably be tucked in the corner of a dive bar, in a sad state of disuse, the miniature wooden ballers suspended at diagonal angles, the football lost. The only footzy action I’ve witnessed so far this year was the other night between a mom and her kid who was barely old enough to reach the handles. They were imagining playing. That was until I came across Pro Foosball, the Pan-Arabian developed virtual foosball game (to be released for PlayStation Network…