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  • Bientôt l’été

    Bientôt l’été is not the sort of game that you beat, win, or complete.  It’s a quiet, thoughtful project that gives players a small location...

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    Charles Battersby
    by Charles Battersby
    Bientôt l’été is not the sort of game that you beat, win, or complete.  It’s a quiet, thoughtful project that gives players a small location to wander, and a chance to interact with strangers in a deliberately limited manner.  The developer Tale of Tales has created some unconventional games over their career, including The Path,...
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  • Cognition Episode 1: The Hangman

    Cognition Episode 1: The Hangman arrived at the tail end of 2012, and it embodies everything about the past year in gaming.  2012 was the...

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    Charles Battersby
    by Charles Battersby
    Cognition Episode 1: The Hangman arrived at the tail end of 2012, and it embodies everything about the past year in gaming.  2012 was the year that Kickstarter became a renowned funding source for indie games, and Cognition was one of those success stories.  2012 also saw the adventure game genre explode back into the...
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  • Top 5 Modern Isometric Games

    With two amazing isometric games coming out in the form of Project Eternity and Path of Exile 2013, it looks like the visual format might...

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    Sara Swanson
    by Sara Swanson
    With two amazing isometric games coming out in the form of Project Eternity and Path of Exile 2013, it looks like the visual format might be making a return from the old SNES days. Isometric games are ones that use floor tiles at a ratio different than 1:1, with their horizontal width being greater than...
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  • Weekly News Roundup – JAN 6 2013

    Happy New Year, everyone! This week has been very busy and plenty of holiday arts and crafts projects are surfacing. The Pokémon lego builds are...

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    Sara Swanson
    by Sara Swanson
    Happy New Year, everyone! This week has been very busy and plenty of holiday arts and crafts projects are surfacing. The Pokémon lego builds are pretty cute, but the Big Daddy one sort of trumps them. We finally have official, solid proof of the next Xbox in the form of an E3 counter from Microsoft,...
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  • Top 5 Video Game Characters Of 2012

    Welcome to another top 5 feature at Explosion. Today, let’s have a look back at 2012 and pick out some of the best characters to...

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    Damon
    by Damon
    Welcome to another top 5 feature at Explosion. Today, let’s have a look back at 2012 and pick out some of the best characters to grace the gaming world. There are no holds barred here, as no strict criteria will be made for this list. Anything goes, so long as the characters became memorable. Here...
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  • Those Rare Times When Licensed Games Rival the Source Material

    The recent disappearance of the 007 titles from Steam and Activision’s online store has made me wax poetic in a way about games with the...

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    Dave Walsh
    by Dave Walsh
    The recent disappearance of the 007 titles from Steam and Activision’s online store has made me wax poetic in a way about games with the 007 license. The film series has always been one of the more fun ones around and the evolution of them over the years has really been something to marvel at....
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  • The Ouya and GameStick Have Some Mighty Hurdles Ahead of Them

    So the world is full of big ideas and dreamers, and sometimes those dreamers take their big ideas and decide to present them to the...

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    Dave Walsh
    by Dave Walsh
    So the world is full of big ideas and dreamers, and sometimes those dreamers take their big ideas and decide to present them to the world. That is what we have seen of late as we’ve seen a few upstarts take to Kickstarter to help fund their big idea of Android-based gaming consoles that are...
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  • On Freedom of Speech and Video Games

    There seems to be no shortage of politicians seeking to blame violent video games as the cause for the tragic Sandy Hook shooting, as opposed...

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    Sara Swanson
    by Sara Swanson
    There seems to be no shortage of politicians seeking to blame violent video games as the cause for the tragic Sandy Hook shooting, as opposed to lax gun control or psychological issues, but a town in Connecticut has decided to up the ante. As previously reported on the site, a group dedicated to helping the...
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  • Fun Activities To Do In Far Cry 3

    Far Cry 3 was one of 2012’s best games that came out very late in the year and surprised quite a few people. Part of...

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    Damon
    by Damon
    Far Cry 3 was one of 2012’s best games that came out very late in the year and surprised quite a few people. Part of its charm is the wide variety of activities one can undertake on the islands. Here we list out some of the most fun things one can do in the game....
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  • A Look Back on 2012

    2012 was the first year that I entered into both game journalism and game development, and it’s allowed me to see plenty of things in...

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    Sara Swanson
    by Sara Swanson
    2012 was the first year that I entered into both game journalism and game development, and it’s allowed me to see plenty of things in a new perspective. As a journalist, part of the job is finding issues with games and reporting on them—but as a developer, a lot of these issues are obvious mistakes...
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