Linecraft – Gaming in One Dimension

Step aside Minecraft, there is a new game in town and its name is Linecraft!  According to Krotch, the game’s designer, Linecraft is a massively singleplayer 1-dimensional digging simulator inspired heavily by such classic titles as Dwarf Fortress and Infiniminer.

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Linecraft – Gaming in One Dimension

Step aside Minecraft, there is a new game in town and its name is Linecraft!  According to Krotch, the game’s designer, Linecraft is a massively singleplayer 1-dimensional digging simulator inspired heavily by such classic titles as Dwarf Fortress and Infiniminer.

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The Potential of Movement

If there was a theme of this year’s E3, it was pure potential. Developers one and all offered us lots of what ifs and hypotheticals, a shining glimpse of what the future could be that they then greedily snatched back,

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The Potential of Movement

If there was a theme of this year’s E3, it was pure potential. Developers one and all offered us lots of what ifs and hypotheticals, a shining glimpse of what the future could be that they then greedily snatched back,

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Indie Impressions: Starfarer

Trying to come to grips with games released in alpha is often a daunting task. It works better for some games than others; certain games have a core mechanic that compels you to keep playing regardless of any lack of

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Indie Impressions: Starfarer

Trying to come to grips with games released in alpha is often a daunting task. It works better for some games than others; certain games have a core mechanic that compels you to keep playing regardless of any lack of

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EA's E3 Conference for Everyone.

Funny-to-say name out of the way, EA has quite the stable of games. Mass Effect 3, Battlefield 3, SSX, The Old Republic… and many more. Most of which it showed, and most was great. Pepper in a few surprises here

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EA's E3 Conference for Everyone.

Funny-to-say name out of the way, EA has quite the stable of games. Mass Effect 3, Battlefield 3, SSX, The Old Republic… and many more. Most of which it showed, and most was great. Pepper in a few surprises here

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Some Good News: Desktop Dungeons

We’ve had a day full of mediocre E3 news, announcements of consoles and not of any particularly thrilling games, so you need some good news. Something to take the pain away. Something mindless, but particularly entertaining. Well, here’s the demo

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Some Good News: Desktop Dungeons

We’ve had a day full of mediocre E3 news, announcements of consoles and not of any particularly thrilling games, so you need some good news. Something to take the pain away. Something mindless, but particularly entertaining. Well, here’s the demo

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Nintendo Rapid Reactions

The thing about E3 is that every year is the same: every year you expect something fantastic, and every year it just fails to deliver. Coming off a day of four disappointing press conferences, surely we could expect Nintendo to

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Nintendo Rapid Reactions

The thing about E3 is that every year is the same: every year you expect something fantastic, and every year it just fails to deliver. Coming off a day of four disappointing press conferences, surely we could expect Nintendo to

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Is Anya Stroud Being Changed To Fit Gender Stereotypes In Gears of War 3?

Full disclosure: the post has been edited to address some of the issues brought up in the comments. Oh, one of these posts, you may be thinking to yourself. Let’s just get some things out of the way before I

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Is Anya Stroud Being Changed To Fit Gender Stereotypes In Gears of War 3?

Full disclosure: the post has been edited to address some of the issues brought up in the comments. Oh, one of these posts, you may be thinking to yourself. Let’s just get some things out of the way before I

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Minimalism in L.A. Noire

Narrative in video games is all sound and fury and no subtlety. In a word, bang! Active voice, onomateopoeia, very physical and very direct, more akin to a Saturday Morning Cartoon than to a novel or a film. They are

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Minimalism in L.A. Noire

Narrative in video games is all sound and fury and no subtlety. In a word, bang! Active voice, onomateopoeia, very physical and very direct, more akin to a Saturday Morning Cartoon than to a novel or a film. They are

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Roundup of Unusual Size: I am transfarring this to you FROM THE PAST.

Nightmare Mode is republishing Dire Critic’s ‘Roundup of Unusual Size’, a collection of links put together by site friend, Kris Ligman. It’s like Critical Distance, except we post on the six days of the week that Ben Abraham doesn’t, and

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Roundup of Unusual Size: I am transfarring this to you FROM THE PAST.

Nightmare Mode is republishing Dire Critic’s ‘Roundup of Unusual Size’, a collection of links put together by site friend, Kris Ligman. It’s like Critical Distance, except we post on the six days of the week that Ben Abraham doesn’t, and

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Six Games We Won't See at E3

…But we wish we would. It’s a sad fact that some franchises go before their time. Some squeeze out one sad, disappointing game and get scrapped, throwing their potential out the window. Others get milked, find a healthy, happy place

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Six Games We Won't See at E3

…But we wish we would. It’s a sad fact that some franchises go before their time. Some squeeze out one sad, disappointing game and get scrapped, throwing their potential out the window. Others get milked, find a healthy, happy place

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