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A Video Game About Changing What Happens In Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Elsinore is a game where you play as Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. She’s stuck in a time loop, a la Groundhog Day or Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Her goal? To prevent Hamlet, a Shakespearean tragedy so tragic that it borders on ludicrous, from ending tragically.
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Everyone’s Tired, Everyone’s Inspired: The GDC I Saw
It’s Monday, 2 March, the first day of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and I can’t help but notice a common refrain: “I’m already tired.”
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Original Diablo III Encouraged Players To Farm Pottery, Blizzard Admits
Diablo III is in a much better place than it was at launch. Between server issues, the polarising real-money auction house and a loot system hell-bent on trolling players, the third instalment in Blizzard’s action RPG series wasn’t what the world asked for. At this year’s GDC, game director Josh Mosqueira gave a brutally honest…
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A Closer Look At Valve’s First VR Unit
Just like its Steam Machine idea, Valve is teaming up with multiple hardware companies to release virtual reality systems. One of the first is this one, the Vive from HTC.