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Embrace Your Lazy Rainy Days With These 5 Cosy Indie Games
This year, La Nina has kept Australians chilly a little closer to Christmas than usual. When it’s cold, wet and stormy outside, there’s nothing better than curling up on the couch with a cup of tea and a cosy video game. For the uninitiated, cosy games are games that are usually slow-paced, with pretty visuals…
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Hades Wins A Hugo Award, Making History As First Video Game To Ever Do So
Yesterday, Hades made history by becoming the first video game to ever win a Hugo Award, an annual literary award presented to the best science fiction or fantasy works from the previous year.
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Hey, Spiritfarer’s Couch Co-Op Is Pretty Good
If there’s one thing missing from modern games, it’s couch co-op. Sure, it exists here and there. But the offerings are slim. C’mon: Even the most recent Halo game did away with the series’ long-running split-screen mode — a fact that, five years later, I’m still bitter about. So it’s good news, then, that this…
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The Warm And Fuzzy Spiritfarer Asks You To Embrace Death
Death is a common element of videogames, though it can be split into at least two categories. There’s the fail state, which rather trivialises the concept, as most games simply let you try again to the point that death is an annoyance to be conquered. Where death itself is the subject matter, the tone tends…