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Had A Rough Day? This Loving Game’s About Hugging It Out

So many games about hate! Death! Violence! Sometimes, you just want to play something that’s about loving your fellow man instead of putting a knife in his face. Something like Hugatron.


Prison Architect Has Better Riots And Linux Support Now

The somewhat-wonderful, somewhat-demented interactive incarceration simulator Prison Architect always gets the best updates. To wit: “Internally we’ve done a lot to increase the realism by implementing a more advanced model of prisoner anger. This now results in full scale riots and riot police to restore law and order.”


Gaming Secrets: Ubisoft’s Massive Mystery, EA Back On Mac

Editor’s note: The mysterious figure known as Superannuation in an expert at digging up what’s hidden in plain view. All of what Superannuation finds is available to the public. These could very well be true gaming secrets. Read on…


Now Angry Birds Seasons Is Thinking With Portals

Today’s free “Abra-Ca-Bacon” to Rovio’s Angry Birds Seasons adds magical apertures that transcend spatial boundaries. You can get it here.


Valve Launches Steam Trading Cards, So Much Better Than Achievements

Launching today in beta across a selection of popular titles, Steam Trading Cards are collectibles Steam users gather while playing their favourite games, with sets tradable for game badges, profile backgrounds, emoticons, coupons, and more. As if hunting for achievements wasn’t enough.


The Theater 2013 Packs A Punch For A Free Horror Game

The Theater 2013 packs quite a punch for a free one-man horror game — especially considering that it was made in 24 hours, and consists of walking through a corridor for five minutes. It really shows how important a good atmosphere is to the experience.


A Video Game In Which You Make Video Games Fights Pirates With Piracy

There’s a recent tradition of developers screwing with pirates — from releasing enormous, immortal pink scorpions on them, to booby trapping their games with glitches when they get cracked. This weekend, Greenheart Games, creator of Game Dev Tycoon, just blew the curve for everyone. This is fantastic.


Spicy Horse’s New Collectible Card-Time Strategy Looks Mighty Familiar

Coming later this year to PC, Mac, Linux and tablets everywhere, Spicy Horse’s (thankfully) tentatively titled Hell Invaders brings collectible card games to life in full 3D real-time strategy battles. It’s sort of like EA’s BattleForge, only — OK, it’s pretty much BattleForge.


Little Inferno Arrives On Mac

Good news, Mac users! The dark, charming, and surprisingly emotional game Little Inferno is now available on your platform of choice.


The Prisoners Might Be Innocent In One Of 2013′s Most Interesting PC Games

I’m already on record about how fascinating Prison Architect is. Seriously, it’s SimPrison — or ThemePrison, if you willmade by people who seem to be damn near fearless about making video games about uncomfortable topics.


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