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The Story Behind Japan Studio's Most Personal Project
Eurogamer's Martin Robinson takes a look inside the family theater of Puppeteer.
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Choose Your Own Significance
The Novelist will mean different things to different people; former AAA dev Kent Hudson is hoping it means creative freedom
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Lunch Break Special: Ending, Minimalist Puzzler-Meets-Roguelike
Today's Lunch Break Special is a minimalist puzzle-game-meets-roguelike-like called Ending. Prepare to die. Lots.
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Origins of the Open World: Mercenary
We're looking at an impending "year of open world games," but the concept has been around since some innovative games as far back as 1985.
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DotA, You've Grown Up: A Look Back
With Dota 2 released, Cassandra spends some time reminiscing about how far this community-made mod has come.
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Why Grand Theft Auto V Has to Be a Comedy
Eurogamer's Chris Donlan channels Martin Amis' assertion that "comedy is the only genre left standing" and examines GTAV through that lens.
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Origins of the Open World: Alternate Reality
The coming year looks set to be "the year of open-world" -- but the concept is quite a bit older than you might think.
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Nintendo's Magic Trick
Turning a nondescript conference room into a gamer's paradise through their 2013 lineup. John gets updated hands-on with Nintendo's big releases and tells us why you can never count out the big N.
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Reanimated: The Story of Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines
Eurogamer's Rick Lane looks at the troubled RPG and how fans kept it alive long after its developer abandoned it.
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Wrestling with Next-Gen Emotions
What do Shinji Mikami, David Cage, and Bobby Kotick have in common? The notion that storytelling is a technical hurdle as much as a creative one
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We're All Adults Here... Right?
A lot of modern gamers have grown up with the industry, and are now fully-grown adults. Why, then, are we still treated like children in many respects?
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Living With the Backlog
Discounts and sales mean gamers are getting more bang for their buck. How do you handle your growing collection?
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M is for Molydeux: Rad Games from the Molyjam 2013
Creepy forests, aggressive sausages, and far, far too many kicked puppies. While last weekend's Molyjam was not terribly kind to animals, it certainly produced some nifty stuff.
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Seeing the Good Within
Why would you ever play a "bad" game? To have an interesting experience, of course. Pete turns to John Updike's rules of criticism for inspiration.
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Wiird Channels
Eurogamer's Rich Stanton raises a glass and bids a fond farewell to several of the Wii's Channels.
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A Dark Room: A Minimalist Adventure That Will Light Up Your World
A Dark Room is a text-driven experiment in minimalism, discovery and exploration.
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Screenshot Saturday: Pretty Indie Games to Keep an Eye On
We take a look at some of the best, er, looking things you can find this week on Screenshot Saturday.
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Farewell, Wii Vitality Sensor: Four Peripherals That Shouldn't Have Been Released
With the Wii Vitality Sensor dead and buried, we look at four devices that should have never reached consumers.
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America's Best and Worst Contributions to Gaming
In celebration of the 4th of July, the USgamer team gives their thoughts on what the US of A has brought to gaming over the years -- both good and bad.
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Super-Charging Your Super-Heroes: DC Universe Online comes to PS4
We chat with DC Universe Online producer Larry Liberty about bringing free-to-play heroes to PlayStation 4.
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Kickstarting Reality: Broken Age Shows Players the Reality of Game Development
Double Fine's trials and tribulations with Broken Age aren't isolated incidents in the game industry.
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Have Traditional MMOs Had Their Time?
Eurogamer's Robert Purchese ponders what the rise of MOBAs and shared-world shooters means for the "traditional" MMORPG in 2013.
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Call of Duty and the Invisible Hand
Is linear design an inextricable part of the Call of Duty experience?
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Five Games That Make an Adequate Replacement for a Fireworks Display
Happy 4th of July! If, on the off-chance, you're by yourself today and missing the fireworks, give some of these games a shot.
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Born Slippy: The Making of Star Fox
Eurogamer's Damien McFerran talks to the ex-Argonaut staff behind the revolutionary SNES hit, some 20 years after its original release.
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Wanna Play a Completely Naked RPG Dungeon-Crawler?
Well do you? And no. It's not naked in a rude way. It's naked in the sense that this is an RPG stripped down to its absolute fundamentals.
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On Not Being One of the "Cool Kids"
Ever felt your tastes were just slightly out of step with everyone else? Pete certainly has. Embrace your weird and wonderful tastes -- it makes conversations about gaming more interesting for everyone!
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Inside the Creative Assembly Game Jam 2013
Eurogamer's Martin Robinson reports from this year's Rezzed Game Jam in the UK, home of some truly creative takes on the '80s as a theme.
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Mega-Recharge: Is Capcom in the Process of Giving Mega Man an Extra Life?
Mega Man's inclusion on the Super Smash Bros. roster may hint that Capcom's robot is set to rise again.
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Inside the Actors Studio with Nolan North
Eurogamer's Jeffrey Matulef chats to Nolan North about Deadpool, acting philosophy and resistance to typecasting.
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It's Time to Face the News: Microsoft's Image Problem
Microsoft is in dire need of someone who will represent them in the court of public opinion.
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The Crimson Dragon Playbook
The director of the Xbox One-exclusive Panzer Dragoon follow-up is too busy making games to waste time lamenting setbacks and challenges.
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Merely Wires and Lights in a Box
55 years later, Edward R. Murrow's cautionary address for a growing medium is still relevant
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MSX: The Little Hybrid That Could
30 years ago, two companies teamed up to create a global computer standard. Great video games were the guest of honor.
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For the Future's Sake, I'm a Collector
Pete contemplates how having shelves full of physical games might be good for the gaming medium in the long run.
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Top 10 Pride-Swallowing Moments in Gaming History
Microsoft's Xbox One reversal has us reflecting on some of the medium's biggest blunders, reversals, and retractions.
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Ouya or Ou-Nah?
Eurogamer's Dan Whitehead looks at the Little Android Console That Could... but can it, really?
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What Does "Final Fantasy" Mean to You?
We look back in series history and see how we ended up with an action RPG as the franchise's latest.
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When Bad Isn't Bad
Have you ever played and absolutely adored a game that press and public alike seemed to despise? The USgamer team gives its thoughts on a selection of favorite "underdogs" through the years.
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Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Full E3 Interview
The folks from Nintendo and Retro Studios share the details on the Kong family's first high-definition adventure.
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Final Fantasy Born Again
Eurogamer's Simon Parkin takes a closer look at how Square Enix is doing its best to fix the "problem child" of the Final Fantasy family.
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Nintendo Gets Into the Game
Three decades ago, Nintendo parlayed a single arcade hit into a home gaming dynasty that remains strong to this day. Their secret? A strong belief in quality, the cutthroat pursuit of profit, and an occasional dash of humility.
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Hale to the Commander
Eurogamer's Johnny Cullen chats with Jennifer Hale about her two decade-long career voice acting in the industry.