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Opposable Thumbs / Gaming & Entertainment
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I have suicidal depression—and board games saved my life
Cardboard bits returned color to a monochrome life.
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Three screens and the...?
Microsoft’s Project Spark becomes free-to-nobody on August 12
Downloads are done for Xbox free-to-play experiment; servers will close in August.
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Doom single-player impressions: Hell and back again
Bethesda's reboot makes a strong, slick first impression.
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Dark Souls 3: FromSoftware should never have gone back
Miyazaki says goodbye to his extraordinary series with a master's flourish.
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Blizzard takes zero-tolerance stance on Overwatch cheating
Publisher will issue permanent bans for first cheating offense, "full stop."
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At last, a sci-fi movie that accurately captures the horrors of dating
Review: The Lobster is about a future where singles are punished by a fate worse than death.
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Not free-to-make
Lionhead tells all: Molyneux’s overpromises, Fable Legends’ $75M budget, more
Eurogamer feature also uncovers Milo and Kate's failings, battles with Xbox marketing.
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Raises hopes for Homestar VR
Chrome dev asserts browser is viable VR platform, targets 90 FPS rendering
Engineer demonstrates on HTC Vive, says it's "good enough to deploy real things."
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Steam Gauge: What VR games are popular with HTC Vive’s early adopters [Updated]
One month in, Ars analysis shows what people are buying and playing in VR.
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Civilization VI launches October 2016 with a cartoony new art style
New game brings classic Civ gameplay with brighter colors and simpler textures.
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Pocket change
$80 2DS makes accessing Nintendo’s vast portable library cheaper than ever
Lower price comes ahead of November's new Pokemon launch.
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Game over
Disney Infinity shuts down as Disney drops out of game publishing
Company will take $147 million writedown for shuttered toys-to-life line.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda officially slips to beginning of 2017
New game, new galaxy, and new characters now targeted for new year.
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more to catch
Pokemon Sun and Moon arrive November 18 with new monsters and a big 3D world
Games push the series' graphical boundaries despite debuting on the 3DS.
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Is this the world’s first “perfect” game of Donkey Kong?
Surpassing Wes Copeland's 1,218,000 points is about luck as much as skill.
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I have suicidal depression—and board games saved my life
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One small stip(ulation) for NASA, one giant burden for exploration
A Senator who dislikes SpaceX seems to find home state rockets more to his liking.
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Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge
Canonical to offer 5 years of support, but Snap packages mean latest features factor in.
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One year after Alexa: Amazon’s Echo has found a small but smart niche
Review: Alexa helps me begin and end my day, but I don't depend on her (yet).
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High-tech cardboard: The rise of digitally augmented board games
Three designers talk about the pros—and cons—of tech-powered tabletop titles.
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