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One-Dimensional Dungeon Crawler Continues To Get Bigger And Brighter

Line Wobbler isn’t how most gamers picture a dungeon-crawler. It’s a long LED strip stretching down from the ceiling connected to a spring-based joystick—more installation art than video game. Developer Robin Baumgarten didn’t expect his niche little project to gain much traction in the gaming community. A physical thing, a few dozen copies of Line Wobbler exist, but its reputation has far transcended the limits of its hardware.

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Soon, you’ll be able to buy indie games, in real life, at a local GameStop.

Soon, you’ll be able to buy indie games, in real life, at a local GameStop. Indie game distribution service IndieBox will be sending physical copies—in actual boxes—to 1,200 GameStops as a part of their GameTrust initiative. Nuclear Throne, Rogue Agency, Axiom Verge and Chariot (all $19.99) and others will be available with instruction manuals, discs, soundtrack CDs and Steam keys.

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If abandoned ‘90s Angelfire sites met a Tamagotchi inside surrealist PlayStation title LSD, it would

If abandoned ‘90s Angelfire sites met a Tamagotchi inside surrealist PlayStation title LSD, it would look like upcoming game Hypnospace Outlaw. In the PC, Mac and Linux title, currently raising funds on Kickstarter, you are an internet police officer “cruising the Hypnospace Highway.” Its developer, Jay Tholen, also made Dropsy
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in which you are a psychedelic clown.

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