John Teti
Editor
By John Teti
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The Xbox One looks like an old VCR
Unlike Sony—the company that held a PS4 unveiling at which they did not unveil the PS4—Microsoft was eager to give players a look at the new “Xbox One” hardware during their otherwise substance-free media event today. As you can see in this suspiciously perfect “photograph,” the console itself looks like a high-end VCR circa 1986. [...]
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Liveblog
Liveblog: Microsoft Unveils The Xbox 7000
Or whatever they decide to call it.
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The Digest
Games Of April 2013: Guacamelee!
The title’s punctuation alone tells you this is going to be good.
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Warner Bros. releases a new trailer for Batman: Arkham Origins, and here is our in-depth analysis
The publisher of Batman: Arkham Origins released the game’s first full-length trailer today. It’s a five-minute glimpse of the highly anticipated follow-up to Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, two generally excellent works that broke a long streak of crummy Batman games. Now, any rube can simply watch the video above and see that there [...]
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The Digest
Games Of April 2013: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Just when you think ’80s nostalgia has reached its peak, a work of retro genius like Blood Dragon comes along.
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PSA
Here’s the lineup for next week’s edition of The Digest
Last month, a reader suggested that we publicize the lineup for The Digest before the videos go up so that you all can play along beforehand and bring your own experiences to the conversation. That made a hell of a lot of sense to me, so here’s what you’re going to see starting on Monday. [...]
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EA ends the Online Pass program, so you won’t have to type in those stupid codes anymore
On the same day that we saluted some clever uses of copy protection, Electronic Arts has announced that they are ending their Online Pass program, one of the clumsier DRM schemes we’ve seen. An Online Pass is a single-use code that came packaged with high-profile EA games like Madden NFL and Mass Effect 3 in [...]
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Inventory
Caught you red-handed: 9 games with creative copy protection
If you’re going to use DRM, you might as well have a sense of humor about it.
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Sawbuck Gamer
Least Worst Options
Gods Will Be Watching is a beautiful struggle to cope.
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A web knockoff of Civilization is now available for those too cheap or lazy to get the real thing
During the Great SimCity Ragefest Of 2013, internet denizens cast about for SimCity alternatives that weren’t plagued by server problems or laden with stifling copy protection. No similar desperation for an imitation has ever arisen among fans of Civilization, the legendary series of empire-building games—probably because the publishers of Civilization have never gone out of [...]
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Sawbuck Gamer
Luau Lexicography
The tiki-themed Idol Words is Boggle for completionists.
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Try this logic-puzzle game designed by Gameological comment-thread mainstay Duwease
If the Great Gatsby movie has you swooning for everything Jazz Age, then you might want to try a new game designed by Rob Williams—who’s better known as duwease here on the Gameological and A.V. Club comment threads. The game is called The Cop Jazz Hour, and you play as a cop who pieces together [...]
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Genius tinkerer builds fire-breathing flower to meet all your plumber-incinerating needs
Caleb Kraft, the aptly named hobbyist who serves as a senior editor at Hack A Day, spent one recent afternoon building a six-foot-tall replica of the Piranha Plant that has plagued Super Mario for so many years. The sculpture alone would be impressive enough, but Kraft went further and made this Piranha Plant one of [...]
