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Hey, It’s Time To Show Some Love To Dwarf Fortress
It’s time to pay the piper. Dwarf Fortress, the extraordinary, free roguelike that has blossomed into a total fantasy life simulator, was an inspiration for monoliths like Minecraft and Rimworld. It’s twenty years old this year, and due to come to Steam sometime soon. However, right now, its two-person development team could really use your…
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The Superstar Artist Of The Wicked + The Divine Soars Into Deep Space With The Killing Horizon
Jamie McKelvie is one of those guys. Your favourite comics artist’s favourite comics artist, a status cemented by the just-ended five-year marathon spent as the draftsman on award-winning pop music super-drama The Wicked + The Divine. For his next trick, he’s going full cartoonist, writing and drawing an all-new sci-fi series and he told Kotaku…
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This Week’s Best New Comics Are Veritable Orgies Of Monsters And Mayhem
The funny thing about being an adult who’s into comics is how you become accustomed to reading stories that graze up against things like sex and real-world politics just slightly enough to convey that while the creative wants you to think about them, the publisher might not exactly be comfortably proclaiming it out loud. So,…
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Kieron Gillen’s New Comic Is About The ‘Sad Mess’ Of RPGs
Kieron Gillen will never forget the time that he was a female Soviet air bomber in WWII and an aeroplane turned his character into “soup.”