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Art Of Rally Turns Driving Into Meditation
Art of Rally is what happens when you take driving — usually depicted in video games as a very loud and busy thing — and strip it back to everything except its most beautiful basics.
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Othercide Is A Goth Tactical RPG That Embraces Death
Most tactical games condition you to avoid failure. In XCOM, once a character dies, they’re gone. Same for Fire Emblem (at least in Classic mode) and others of its ilk. Othercide isn’t like that. Playing Othercide means rewiring your brain to tolerate and even seek out failure. Death comes quickly and brutally and recurs ad…
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Vlambeer Is Closing Down
In 2010, two Dutch students — Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman — founded an independent video game studio. It would start with some fishing, go on to release games like Nuclear Throne and Luftrausers, and now in 2020 is shutting down like a rock band deciding yeah, you know what, enough is enough.
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Art Of Rally, A Minimal Driving Game, Looks Fantastic
I covered Art of Rally back in early 2019 when it was supposed to be out in late 2019. That obviously didn’t happen, but a delayed game can always be a better game, and Art of Rally sure is looking nicer than the last time we saw it.