Secret of Qwerty is a ‘typing RPG’ that will steal your whole afternoon

Cross Typing of the Dead with Dragon Warrior and the result is Secret of Qwerty , an old-school RPG where you fight mean trees and ghosts and things by typing at them. Read the rest

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Could this beautiful game signal the end of our dystopia fetish?

Over the past decade or so, gritty, apocalyptic worlds were the favored setting of popular video games, and machinelike cyber-dystopias were a reliable aesthetic before that. But No Man’s Sky , a highly-anticipated upcoming world, is infinite and hopeful. Read the rest

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Whoa, it’s Zelda: A Link To The Past’s world map, in living detail

“Friendly tag-based Javascript animators” JADSDS have made a gigantic HMTL5 map of the overworld from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past , also known as the best Zelda . Read the rest

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Try performing in atmospheric Norse slam poetry competition

MadameBerry has made us a neat toy: EDDA , An atmospheric slam poetry battle based on a collection of Old Norse poetry . Alongside warm firelight in a great hall, you choose how to complete phrases in response to your challenger, with the aim of besting four different types of poets. Read the rest

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What We Know About the First Earth-Sized Planet In a Habitable Zone

When you’re looking for alien life, the best place to look is somewhere like Earth; the only place we know of that life exists. Kepler-186f , the first Earth-sized planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star, is the best bet we’ve ever found. Read more…

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