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The Binding of Isaac

   From the mind of Super Meat Boy comes Edmund McMillen’s new game, “The Binding of Isaac.” According to Edmund’s blog, Isaac will a be a “roguelike shooter based on the dungeon structure of Zelda (nes).”

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Blocks That Matter Tech Demo Now Available

Swing Swing Submarine’s new game, Blocks That Matter, has a tech demo out for the upcoming non-XBLIG version. The team is asking for feedback and debugging help, so be the kind soul you are give it a try. The demo … Continue reading

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Dungeons of Dredmor Goes Steamside

The dungeon crawling roguelike “Dungeons of Dredmor” is going to dinner at Steam’s house. AND it brought lutefisk!

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El Shaddai, or how someone finally made a religious game right!

   It finally happened. Killer 7 and Okami finally got together and had a baby, followed shortly by a religious epiphany of some sort. And the results are so gorgeous that I want to go to an art museum and stare at … Continue reading

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Exclusive Interview: Jadusable

By BearCracker It ravaged the internet with its creepy story, interesting episodic storytelling method, and general lack of disconcern of how you may want to play Majora’s Mask. That’s right, the Majora’s Mask “Creepypasta” as it is known was the … Continue reading

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Sacrifices for EVERYONE!

Left 4 Dead has been doing the DLC thing for a while now, putting it all out at a pace only Valve can consider productive. The newest of the DLC, “The Sacrifice” tells the string of events right before “The … Continue reading

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Attack of the Downloads! Lair of the Shadow Broker and Case 0!

When the idea of DLC came about, I immediately thought of big expansion packs that could be downloadable, maybe a bit smaller. Since then, I’ve been proven that DLC is 7$ for two hours on rather unrelated content, with few … Continue reading

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Brian Wood of Relic Killed in Car Accident

Last Friday, gaming lost not only a great lead designer, but a great man. Brian Wood was killed in a vehicular accident. According to news sources, he swearved the car so that he would take the full force of the … Continue reading

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Telltale Presents: Back to "Back to the Future"

Telltale announced Back to the Future: The Adventure Series today! For fans of the original movies, you’ll be happy to hear that Christopher Lloyd will be reprising his role as Doc Brown, and it seems CEO Dan Connors is doing … Continue reading

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Xbox Live to Increase Subscription Fees

It seems Microsoft has felt that with the inclusion of the new features (such as ESPN) coming to XBL soon, that it is time to increase the subscription fee. This statement was emailed to a few customers. Here’s the email … Continue reading

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