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Movable Play continues October 6th
Join us October 6th for more talks from the creators of great mobile games.
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Surprise! Simogo’s new "quiet" videogame isn’t what you’d expect
SPL-T isn’t what you’d expect from Simogo. Sure, the studio has certainly delved into puzzles before. You could even say puzzles are a staple of Simogo’s house style as some of its best games included particularly memorable ones: Beat Sneak Bandit, DEVICE 6, and Year Walk especially. But the Swedish
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After six years of teasing, The Witness will finally come out on January 26th
Even the release date for The Witness is puzzling at first. It pops up at the end of the announcement trailer like this: “0126 • 2016.” It took a good 10 seconds for my brain to realize it said January 26th 2016. We have another four months to wait for it. We’ve already waited six years since Jonat
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Merrily Perily is a comedy of errors about poison and pooping yourself
There’s a certain type of prank prevalent on YouTube where the prankster dribbles hot sauce onto a friend’s food and also into their drink, so that once they eat the food and realize the predicament they’re now in, reaching for their drink will only make things worse.Merrily Perily takes that prank
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Glitchspace switches intimidation from its programming puzzles to its architecture
Using a programming gun to solve environmental puzzles is one of those ideas that works great in theory more than it does in practice. That’s what Space Budgie discovered upon releasing the first alpha build of Glitchspace last year, at least. Yes, despite the positive reception from early critics a
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Circular platformer Circa Infinity is absolutely mesmerizing
Hypnotizing new game will make you trippy, very trippy
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SUPERHOT wants to get inside your brain and change how you think
Conduct an ensemble of bullets and glass in SUPERHOT
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The glorious ideas and terrible, terrible puzzles of Cradle
Cradle reminds us why videogames are obsessed with transhumanism
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Piece your life together by piecing together broken pottery
I have but one question to ask about puzzles: if at some point a creator had a complete picture, why on earth would they smash it into pieces just so we would have to do more work before enjoying it? Kintsukuroi, an Android “experiment” by Chelsea Saunders, attempts to answer this question. It takes
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The new King’s Quest looks to the past
King’s Quest shows the virtues and the limits of nostalgia.
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Find peace by gardening the harmonious landscapes of Barmark
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Barmark (Android) BY Stormhatt Studios The characters in Barmark are all damaged in some way. You can see this as they wander the rigidly-cut pastoral landscapes guided by your finger. They a
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We’ll Meet Again takes collaborative gaming offline
The Ear Force PX51 is a lot of headset—$296.95 worth of headset, to be precise. It is billed as an “advanced gaming audio system.” It comes with many features that are prefixed with “dual-”, which makes sense insofar as most people have two ears. All of that is a complicated way of saying the PX51 a