After playing Device 6 a few weeks ago, some Facebook friends recommended I try Year Walk by the same developers. Simogo's earlier effort is much more of a traditional game, but Year Walk is really only a traditional game when compared to something as radical as Device 6.
Read MoreThe first thing you hear when you boot up Sometimes You Die on your iPhone is a robotic voice saying, "What are you doing? You would say, 'I am playing a game.'" In any other context, the voice would be right, but right now, you're doing something more than just playing a simple iOS platformer.
Read MoreLast April, just as my freshman year at Northeastern University was coming to a close, my friends in the Film Enthusiasts' Club invited me to the Coolidge Corner Theater to see The Room, one of the worst movies ever made.
This isn't the first time I went to see a midnite movie at the The Coolidge. I had been frequenting the theater's @fter Midnite series since I first discovered it the previous September. Every Friday and Saturday night, the theater screens a great selection of macabre cult movies. They're always 35mm prints from the film's original run and some of the prints they show are extremely rare; a long-lost director's cut or a foreign film that never got an American release.
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