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QWOP turned failure into comedy and found viral immortality

The first time most people ever saw QWOP was around December 2010, when a YouTuber named Critical declared it “The…

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Spelunky mashed up two wildly different genres—and invented a perfect game

Is Spelunky perfect? This is the question running through much pro-Spelunky literature. Certainly something so…

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10 years later, Braid remains the definitive indie game

If you haven’t played Braid before, here’s what happens when you turn it on: It looks like Mario, but something is…

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