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Gaming With the Moms #39: We Are No Different From the Ants

Nicole, Simone, Linda, and Courtney talk about all the video game news. Then we get into what we played. Hey, Overcast listeners! Recommend us if you have a minute, would you? Thanks,...Read More

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Journey LIVE Tour Is Go

The Journey LIVE Kickstarter has met and outstripped its funding goal. (Yes, Journey the video game–not the other Journey.)Read More

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Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime Comes to PS4 In February

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime will be hitting PlayStation 4 on February 9, just in time to stock up on fancy Valentine’s Day chocolates. Read More

Off the Map

The British Library Challenges Students To Make Shakespeare Games

The British Library has an extremely cool competition for full-time students in Britain. It’s called the Off The Map competition. This year the competition is using Shakespeare as its wellspring,...Read More

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Oculus Rift Lawsuit Will Move Forward

Oculus Rift is facing several legal claims against its makers, which is unsurprising given the attention the device has received in general. Oculus is already combatting one lawsuit from Zenimax, which claims...Read More

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Xbox One Preview Participants Getting a First Look at the New Dashboard

Microsoft is rolling out bits and pieces of the upcoming Xbox One dashboard update to participants in the Xbox One Preview program. Social features seem be the most notable changes...Read More

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Teaching Math With Hearthstone

When I was a kid in elementary school, I was already deep down the rabbit hole of video games, thanks to getting an Atari 2600 at 4 years old. I was...Read More

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Oxenfree Review

Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Mac We played on: Xbox One I like games that give me the heebie-jeebies. What are these heebie-jeebies, you say? The heebie-jeebies are the creeping, prickling...Read More

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British Writer’s Guild Honors Unsettling English Games Like Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture

The British Writer’s Guild has decreed Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture as the winner of its video game writing award. Other nominees included Her Story and Sunless Sea, which are...Read More

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Minecraft: Educational Edition Coming This Summer

In a move that makes total sense to us, Microsoft has announced that they are acquiring MinecraftEdu and will be releasing a new product called Minecraft: Educational Edition. The edition is...Read More

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The Purring Quest Review

The Purring Quest is a love letter to cats. It’s filled with cute cat puns, referential humor, and nods to Schrödinger’s cat. However, all of the cute cat imagery doesn’t...Read More

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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Is Coming To PC

The popular visual novel game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is coming to PC via Steam, Spike Chunsoft announced on their English Twitter account.Read More

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Filming Is Finished on Assassin’s Creed Movie

According to a tweet from Assassin’s Creed head of content Aymar Azaïzia, filming has wrapped on the Assassin’s Creed film.Read More

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New Game in Beloved Harvest Moon Franchise Colonizes the iPad

Harvest Moon games are a series of adorable farming simulators. Now the newest game, Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories, is available for iPhone and iPad.Read More