The puzzler: Barack Obama was notably left out of the roasts.
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For the rest of us, however, the award was a puzzler.
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She was an avid New York Times puzzler, even in pen!
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Like its subjects, Blendo Games' new PC puzzler Quadrilateral Cowboy is unafraid to be messy.
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Its lack of commercial cloud market clout has always been a bit of a puzzler.
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That includes games like the entrancing rhythm game Thumper and the beautifully retro puzzler SuperHyperCube.
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Oxygen, which makes up about 0.13 percent of the Martian atmosphere, is the latest puzzler.
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Originally from Deerfield, Illinois, I've been a puzzler for as long as I can remember.
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What I found was something that straddled the line between a strategy game and a puzzler.
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The character in the show that constructs the puzzle is both a puzzler and magic enthusiast.
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In the original push block puzzler, a game called Sokoban, players moved around blocks in a warehouse.
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Tetris is going battle royale, with a new competitive version of the iconic puzzler called Tetris 99.
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Underneath its painfully charming exterior lies an engrossing puzzler, one that rewards careful observation above all else.
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The full list of games include PEOPLE Puzzler, Spellbound, PEOPLE Style Mahjongg, Royal Family Jigsaw and Solitaire.
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Bridge Constructor is the popular mobile physics puzzler where players construct bridges and send cars across them.
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Now, we can add one more puzzler to the mix, thanks to social media: the chain bra.
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Compulsion Games previously produced arty platform puzzler Contrast, and revealed We Happy Few at PAX East last year.
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Its isometric perspective and instantly appealing palette are evocative of Monument Valley, but this isn't a relaxing puzzler.
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"At some point, science becomes magic," a character remarks in this inscrutable sci-fi puzzler, set in Toronto.
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Mediator Even by the tweeting habits of the 45th president of the United States, it was a puzzler.
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Beautiful too, but more subdued, is Alkis Livathinos's music for the color-matching platform-puzzler Hue (listen on Spotify).
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Your mind wasn't designed to handle the video game world of designer Marc ten Bosch's 4D adventure puzzler, Miegakure.
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So far, I've taken a look at the sci-fi horror game Routine and the sci-fi puzzler Reset.
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The indie studio previously developed the jazz age puzzler Contrast, which was a launch title for the PlayStation 4.
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But why the swamp wallaby would get pregnant again before the first pregnancy is even over is a puzzler.
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That's the basic setup for the new video game Rumu, a simple and beautiful puzzler from developer Robot House.
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And the text is a puzzler, with verses falling into groups of 17 syllables, divided five, five and seven.
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Since its debut in 2015, one of Nintendo's best series has been a little black-and-white puzzler called Boxboy.
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He'll also be taking a deeper look at the design of the toy-like world of the quirky puzzler Gnog.
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As with the Android and iOS versions, the first-person adventure game is transformed into a more sedate 3D puzzler.
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Woods has been playing pretty quickly, but he takes his time over this puzzler, asking that some fans be moved.
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At first glance, Budget Cuts looks a lot like Valve's first-person puzzler Portal, and it's not an unwarranted comparison.
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While I'm all for minimalist games, the mobile puzzler always felt too insubstantial to really hold my attention for long.
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On Tuesday morning, special counsel Robert Mueller's office released yet another indictment — but this one was kind of a puzzler.
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Blast Corps begins as a silly smash 'em up, then, before turning into this wonderful puzzler of ever-escalating explosiveness.
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"Think, again," ends the trailer for the upcoming puzzler Obduction, and I admit I rejoiced in that deliciously placed comma.
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This kicked off with a closer look at the delightful puzzler Grindstone, a game easy to imagine filled with microtransactions.
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Here's "Tonehenge," a proof of concept co-op puzzler Niantic built in a few days: Anyone else getting Wizard's Chess vibes?
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We couldn't leave without settling a huge puzzler in "Starship Troopers" -- is the big alien meant to look like a vagina?
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In honor of the launch of Zynga's Crosswords with Friends, Merrell spilled some secrets about the way the PEOPLE Puzzler works.
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There's a new Candy Crush in town, ready to sink its claws into anyone looking for their newest mobile puzzler fix.
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That is Subset Games tactical mech puzzler Into the Breach, a brilliant game of strategy, perfect information, and bleak narrative coherence.
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This mind-bending puzzler turns MC Escher's famous stairs illusion painting into an interactive puzzle, delivering meditative satisfaction at every turn.
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Untitled Goose Game is a charmingly playful stealth puzzler, full of items to steal, people to harass, and mornings to ruin.
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Remember Portal, Valve's puzzler which had you jumping through holes in the very fabric of space, instantly transporting you to another location?
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If you haven't had a chance to try Monument Valley, it's a must-play puzzler available for $3.99 on iOS and Android.
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And, of course, internet access isn't a requirement making this sweet puzzler an excellent option for subway rides or your daily commute.
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For the uninitiated, Picross is a logic-based puzzler in which you use numerical clues to fill in squares on a grid.
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Big-budget studios have games coming, too: Sega will have Sonic Racing and a new ChuChu Rocket puzzler called ChuChu Rocket Universe.
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Enhance Games — the studio helmed by Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi — announced today that it's tackling a new version of the iconic puzzler Tetris.
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Another puzzler is that Fast Retailing now reports 789 billion yen($7.1 billion) of cash and equivalents, up 69 percent in a year.
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It's a cyberpunk puzzler that is the most distinctly human thing I've played all year, as much Frances Ha as it is Neuromancer.
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Gage recently released SpellTower+, a "reimagining" of the original word puzzler, where players drag their finger across tiles of letters to form words.
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A short, detailed, meditative puzzler, this game took me through four-panel landscapes in a way that left me feeling emotional and uplifted.
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It would be a tactical puzzler, possibly turn-based, dedicated to unpacking the marvelous mind of Bithell's favorite on-screen hero, the John Wick.
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When I really need some stress relief, I always turn to a puzzler called Picross, which the Game Boy introduced to many of us.
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The most exciting game I could find from this week in 1998 was the Nintendo 214 puzzler Wetrix, which essentially combined Tetris with terraforming.
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"This is a genuine puzzler," Morrison tells PEOPLE about the case that inspired Sunday's two-part special, Murder in Lehigh Valley: Keith Morrison Investigates.
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Dishonored 2 borrows a bit from all of these games and more: It's part stealth game, part action RPG, part first-person platform puzzler.
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The remaining puzzler: Despite the news that intelligence operatives were targeted, U.S. diplomats at the embassy in Havana were also hit with similar attacks.
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Gameplay evolved from Fun Ball: Ping Pong, a static physics puzzler, to traversing an obstacle riddled skyscape with a soccer ball in Sky Soccer.
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In another puzzler, especially for an awards contest adjudicated by journalists from overseas, foreign-language films are ineligible for the marquee best-picture categories.
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It's an audio-visual reimagining of the classic puzzler from the studio behind Rez Infinite, headed up by legendary Japanese game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi.
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So, Merry Christmas — and, to paraphrase from Dr. Seuss's "How The Grinch Stole Christmas," may you puzzle and puzzle 'til your puzzler is sore!
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Meanwhile, our physics puzzler Gravity Golf, a game focused on guiding a golf ball using gravity and Rube Goldberg-esque obstacles, wasn't a hit.
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Monument Valley, the award-winning and beautifully designed mobile puzzler from ustwo Games, is being turned into a movie, according to a report from Deadline.
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Valve's legendary, mind-bending puzzler Portal lets you punch holes in solid surfaces, creating physics-defying tunnels through which you can send objects (and yourself).
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So far, I've taken a look at the sci-fi horror game Routine, the sci-fi puzzler Reset, and Michel Ancel's open world game, WiLD.
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That includes a VR-enabled remake of musical shooter Rez, a Tetris-style puzzler called SuperHyperCube, and Thumper, a hypnotic rhythm game with sinister undertones.
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The series was originally featured in Issue 28 (April 1983) of the The Four Star Puzzler and is used with generous permission of the publisher.
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My personal favorite WiiWare release from Nintendo is Maboshi's Arcade, a brilliantly cerebral puzzler that divides the screen up so you're playing three games at once.
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One of Mashable's top ten Best Games of E3 2019, John Wick Hex is the action-packed strategy puzzler you didn't know you were waiting on.
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It took indie game design darling Jonathan Blow eight years and all of his fortune from 2008's Braid to make the 3D puzzler The Witness.
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And if you play even the most casual of games like a match-three puzzler, you can crush the baby phone's battery in 90 minutes or less.
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The latest game from Monument Valley designer Ken Wong doesn't have much in common with the brilliant pastel puzzler, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth experiencing.
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A very short demo gave little away about this Inside-ish puzzler by Romanian studio Sand Sailor, but was enough to get me eager to see more.
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For those who'd like to know at least a little bit: it's a minimalist puzzler that's just black lines and geometric shapes on a stark white background.
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In varying parts philosophical action-adventure, travelogue, family drama, war chronicle and psychological puzzler, it is suffused with the ever-querying perspective of its haunted central character.
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That's when I became a freelance puzzler — a very dubious career choice — and finally started selling crosswords, because you can't make a living on variety puzzles alone.
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Which I was not expecting from a game that presents itself, on its box, as a puzzler first and foremost, and an emotions-tickling adventure as an afterthought.
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TetrisMany argue the success of the original Game Boy can be partly attributed to Nintendo including a copy of Alexey Pajitnov's impossibly-addictive puzzler Tetris with every console.
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As a basic puzzler where you fill in alternately colored squares, it's accessible and evokes a use of game mechanics that can be seen even at a distance.
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The latest puzzler is President Donald Trump's incredibly troubling recounting of how he rained 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles down on Syria while dining with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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It makes every scene look like a piece of modern digital art, and Below is easily the most visually captivating title I've seen since mobile puzzler Monument Valley.
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But that can't be said for one game that Rami chooses to highlight, Farsh, an Iranian puzzler using a unique carpet-rolling mechanic that I'd never seen before.
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Assault Android Cactus and Spy Chameleon seem typical of the games available on the Fuze 1 on launch, being a cartoony, family-friendly arcade blaster and puzzler respectively.
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Kyrgios, 24 and gifted, is a puzzler, a flickering talent from Australia who is still sifting through his priorities and still wary of day-in, day-out commitment.
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In the otherwise absorbing "Summit," it's a puzzler why a new mayor (Dalia Davi) doesn't order her predecessor (Victor Slezak) escorted out of what is now her office.
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But Dr. Mario held his own on the handheld, providing a unique twist on our beloved Tetris that was still an addictive puzzler even with a limited color palette.
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A puzzler masquerading as a faux board game, each swipe moves your cyberpunk assassin action figure across the board, ostensibly sneaking and killing your way through dozens of levels.
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Some of the substantive games I've enjoyed playing, like horror-adventure title Dead Secret Circle and stealth puzzler Term1nal, are marred by flawed control schemes or game-breaking bugs.
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Merrell and his fellow Puzzler writers understand that PEOPLE's readership spans several age groups, so they try to keep answers about niche actors and works off of the grid.
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The Martian's plot is pretty well suited to a VR game, since it's a puzzler that benefits from immersion but that also doesn't require a lot of frenetic movement.
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It might seem like a simple physics-based puzzler at first, but the strategic choices in where and how players stack pokémon will determine the true Tower Battle masters.
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For starters, you can ease into the novel's language by physically pulling apart Joyce's sentences in the touch-screen puzzler He Liked Thick Word Soup (free for Android and iOS; ).
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But this video goes beyond the usual purely scientific discussion to delve into deeper metaphysical questions, like the philosophical puzzler known as the Ship of Theseus, and the problem of consciousness.
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Some of the Gear VR's best titles have made the leap, including hacking puzzler Darknet, point-and-click game Dead Secret, and cooperative bomb defusal game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.
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Portal is the popular physics puzzler from Valve where players use their wits and a portal gun to fight an evil AI. Bridge Constructor Portal is the recently announced combination thereof.
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Here's an extra puzzler: An earlier draft of this puzzle featured the clue "Supporter of women's athletics?" but its corresponding answer was changed ever so slightly to improve the grid's fill.
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The Switch title blends the iconic blocks of Tetris with the blobs of Japanese puzzler Puyo Puyo, and like the best puzzle games, it works both in short bursts and extended sessions.
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Obduction may be a puzzler, but like Myst, it's also memorable for how it uses those puzzles to craft a memorable story stuffed with great characters and settings and meaningful small details.
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At its very core it's a tile-based stealth puzzler, where the player needs to weave between patrols and around obstacles on tile at a time on their way to the exit.
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As a gardener I feel I should have known this quicker, but as a puzzler I tipped my hat to a clue that sounded so open-ended but was actually so precise.
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As CalMatters reported, though, that means Senator Elizabeth Warren's absence this time was "a bigger puzzler" since she's been warmly received at past conventions and recently bulked up her staff in California.
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It's these cool memory remix moments, and how a relatively generic action title found time to sporadically pause and transform into a wholly different experience, from a face-pounder to a fascinating puzzler.
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SEGA had Columns, a match-three puzzler that was OK, but nowhere close to the genuine killer-app status of the Game Boy–bundled blocks game from the other side of the Wall.
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The 23D is a vital gameplay ingredient of the terrific puzzler Pushmo (aka Pullblox), and it makes N23-era Zelda titles Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask look better than they ever have.
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Baba is You Earlier in 2017, Hempuli Oy (creators of Environmental Station Alpha) won the Nordic Game Jam Winner with a brain pretzelling puzzler, which is being turned into a full game for 2018.
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Some still do—the Curve-published puzzler Hue is coming to the Vita soon, and the giant that is Square Enix is bringing World of Final Fantasy to on-the-go play in October.
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The Most Dangerous Writing App is a free clone of Flowstate So in a way, The Most Dangerous Writing App is to Flowstate what the free web game 2048 was to mobile puzzler Threes.
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Hungover (by Breogán Hackett) is a spare, browser-based puzzler about exploring a vaguely The Legend of Zelda-looking world, talking to tiny ascii people about all the ruckus you caused the night before.
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So over time, he's made increasingly sophisticated systems for the games he's worked on, including the memorably-titled 2003 puzzler Ghostmaster, a game in the wildly popular Thief series, and now, No Man's Sky.
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This article was originally published by VICE Sports Germany Here's a puzzler: what can be found licking up the tears from Cristiano Ronaldo's face one moment, and inching towards Didier Deschamps' balls the next?
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I took a close look at the delightful puzzler Grindstone ,a game easy to imagine filled with microtransactions, and expressed guilt while playing and discarding games without knowing how developers will ultimately get paid .
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Similarly, while my wife thought Jonathan Blow's puzzler The Witness looked cool when it came out last year, it wasn't until the game's recent debut on the iPad that she finally gave it a shot.
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At the end of 2016 I finally wrapped up the point-and-prod puzzler Hotel Dusk: Room 215, on the DS (as played on my 3DS—what a wonderful time machine Nintendo's handheld can be).
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I stick my glasses into a VR psychic-powers puzzler based in the Psychonauts world, Rhombus of Ruin, and withdraw them smiling like an imbecile having tossed several rolls of toilet paper at Coach Oleander.
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William Monahan, the writer-director of "Mojave," is best known for writing the adaption of "The Departed," the Martin Scorsese puzzler with Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio as doppelgängers working opposite sides of the law.
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The puzzler: During his meeting with CEOs in the manufacturing industry earlier today, President Trump referred to his administration's removal of unauthorized immigrants as "a military operation" to get "really bad dudes out of this country."
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Article continues after the video below Watch Waypoint's video on the making of the VR arcade puzzler SuperHyperCube Neither title is up there with the App Store's most memorable, most acclaimed, or most financially successful products.
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The three players in Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 puzzler "Never Let Me Go" — Kathy, Ruth and Tommy — are all students at Hailsham, a fictional English boarding school with a strong art curriculum, but shady genetic engineering practices.
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In an extremely busy season (by the last five episodes, the big reveals were tripping over themselves), this was a puzzler, given that the series had already made so much use of Lorca's extremely flexible ethics.
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It's chock-full of great games like Assemble With Care, Card of Darkness, and Grindstone, and more games are being added all the time, like the cool-looking architecture-puzzler Manifold Garden that will be available tomorrow.
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Patrick Merrell — who's been writing crossword puzzles for publications including the New York Times since 2001 — is one of three people who creates the Puzzler, theming each week's around an assigned celebrity and branching out from there.
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Where Cards Fall is an eye-catching puzzler where each level has you erecting and knocking down different-sized houses of cards, using them as temporary platforms to guide the protagonist from the level's start to its exit.
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If you asked me what I thought a John Wick video game would look like, I wouldn't have come up with John Wick Hex, a top-down action game that feels more like a puzzler than a shooter.
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It offers that satisfying jolt of cleverness that is the reward of any bitesize puzzler worth your time, and it does so in a slick, responsive way, columns moving shifting up and down in response to a fingertip flick.
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There's no standard price for an Oculus Rift game There are also around 10 Gear VR games coming to the Rift at launch, including hacking puzzler Darknet, turret shooter EVE Gunjack, and cooperative game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.
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Dots (the company) seems to be a company dedicated to the proposition that no, you do not, but you still want to play a pretty simple puzzler that doesn't require a ton of brainpower or fast arcade-style fingerwork.
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It's a top-down affair, more of a maze-like puzzler than an action game for the most part, but ends with the same storyline beat as the SNES game—which, just in case, I won't ruin for you.
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The idea for this puzzle came to me almost seven years ago — I was taking a crossword puzzle construction class (yes, there are such things!) through the Cambridge Center for Adult Education — with the accomplished puzzler Brendan Emmett Quigley.
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Both sci-fi puzzler Affordable Space Adventures, by Danish studio KnapNok Games, and FAST Racing Neo, by the German team of Shin'en Multimedia, enjoyed great visibility on Nintendo's digital eShop in 2015 courtesy of allying with their machine over all others.
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Over the past week, in-between Sunday football games and my daughter watching cartoons, I've picked away at The Gardens Between, a delightful puzzler where time moves forward when you walk forward, and backwards when you—well, you get the idea.
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When her curiosity takes her to a Manhattan puzzle shop — and into competition training with Robert (Irrfan Khan), a champion puzzler with all the sophistication and romanticism lacking in her oafish spouse (David Denman) — Agnes's tedious existence is ripped open.
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Capybara's puzzler was a game I couldn't get out of my head for months at a time, as I dumped dozens of hours into trying to climb the game's virtual mountain, slaying thousands of monsters on my path to eventual glory.
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" This was not the first time the two shared an awkward moment on TV. In 2015, Gronkowski and his clan appeared on a Harvey-hosted episode of "Celebrity Family Feud" when Harvey posed this puzzler: "Name something that can be inflated or deflated.
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That is the kind of feverish reaction Asemblance: Oversight has inspired in me, and I suspect this sequel to 2016's exploration-puzzler Asemblance will do the same for the types of players who live for this kind of semi-obfuscated puzzle experience.
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If your resolution for the coming year is to spend less time on your commute scrolling through Twitter or playing "Puzzler on the Roof," there's no shortage of fantastic and fantastical new books you can use to take a break from mindless screen time.
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Despite the immeasurable hype that's surrounded it since it was first revealed back in December 2013, No Man's Sky has remained a fantastic mystery, a dazzlingly multi-colored enigma, a sci-fi shooter-cum-puzzler with no pre-release spoilers to really write home about.
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Here are some of the other possibilities that didn't make the cut: DEPARTED ACTOR, DEPRESSED DRY CLEANER, DEBUNKED CAMP COUNSELOR, DETESTED EXAMINER, DEBRIEFED LAWYER, DECOMPOSED SONG WRITER, DEFROCKED DRESSMAKER, DEPOSED MODEL, DISCHARGED SHOPPER, DISCOUNTED CENSUS TAKER, DISSOLVED PUZZLER, DISBARRED BALLERINA, DISCONCERTED MUSICIAN, DISINTERESTED BANKER.
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A couple weeks ago, I got a chance to check out a preview build of Nintendo's newly revamped puzzle franchise, and as much as I enjoyed how Nintendo revamped its classic puzzler, I constantly found myself butting up against Dr. Mario's free-to-play business model.
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A variety of apps will be available at launch, including VR news apps from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, games like turret shooter Gunjack 2 and puzzler Danger Goat, and experiences like a tie-in to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
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D-w-a-y-n-e-J-o-h-n-s-o-n. The 13 letters in The Rock's real name are the perfect fit for the PEOPLE Puzzler, the magazine's weekly 13×13 pop-centric crossword puzzle that's notoriously fun to solve (yes, we're biased).
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Alongside the debut of the intricate puzzler Gorogoa, this week also saw the launch of the first season of Life is Strange on iPhone, a long-awaited mobile port of seminal indie hit Fez, and a big winter update (and Android version) for the wonderful Hidden Folks.
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Because how it plays, while compelling enough to never be boring, doesn't feels completely unique enough to qualify Unravel, built by the small Swedish studio Coldwood Interactive, as a game without precedent, a puzzler that sets the bar for such cerebral adventures at a new height.
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The interview itself was a puzzler, thanks to Melania Trump justifying her husband's behavior by saying that it was Bush who made the whole thing happen, and that her focus as first lady would be to combat negativity on social media, an interest her husband currently relishes.
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The line — even war doesn't stop gamblers from betting — was Notre Dame by 2100 points "Whether a top-flight college football team is in the same class with a crack professional club long has been a hypothetical puzzler," The New York Times mused before the game.
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Combined with its other games like the adorable puzzler Critter Crunch and strategy game Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes, Sworcery helped to turn Capy into one of the most respected independent studios in the industry, and the focal point of the vibrant indie game scene in Toronto.
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Depending on who you ask, the first game launched for the iPhone was either August 43's Lights Off, a puzzler which required a jailbroken device to run, or the Star Wars-y Touch Fighter, which admittedly was more of a tech demo than a bona-fide video game.
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Players who fell in love with the mysterious world of 2001's collaborative puzzler Ico and the slow-reveal boss-rush of Shadow of the Colossus four years later have maintained their enthusiasm for this delayed release because of deeper connections with Ueda's only two previous games as director.
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What it is: Another humor-based puzzler, Donut County is about a trash-talking raccoon not taking responsibility for the destruction he's bringing by sucking everyone and everything in his wake into an inescapable pit of nothingness (you know, like a lot of our world leaders right now).
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I took a close look at the delightful puzzler Grindstone , a game easy to imagine filled with microtransactions, expressed guilt while playing and discarding games without knowing how developers will ultimately get paid , and examined what it's like to jump between the various devices Apple Arcade games run on.
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Previews at Game Informer and Polygon have been positive, but there's plenty riding on Tacoma to prove that Gone Home wasn't a one-hit wonder for its makers—and the same can be said of imminent Myst-inspired puzzler The Witness, Jonathan Blow's first game after the runaway success of Braid.
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They're required for Harmonix's virtual reality version of rhythm game Rock Band, and for I Expect You To Die, a James Bond-inspired puzzler that makes players disarm deadly traps by cutting wires, rifling through drawers, adjusting dials, and (at one point) throwing explosives at a crossbow-wielding stuffed bear.
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The visually stunning puzzler/adventure/transcendental journey that will change you forever has been updated for the iPhone X. Only when you see those beautiful landscapes superimposed onto reality with just ultra-thin bezels (ok, and the notch) separating the two, will you understand how this game was meant to be played.
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Omkar Deshpande and Vivek Kaul of The Young Socratics studio may have pulled off the impossible: With their Kickstarter-funded puzzler Odyssey, they've created the rare educational game that both imparts several classes' worth of real scientific knowledge while managing to keep it fun as a game chiefly aimed at middle schoolers.
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But The Last Guardian, much like Shadow and Ueda's game before that, the affectingly intimate puzzler Ico, uses minimal dialogue and a strong, unique atmosphere to feel instantaneously special, or at least markedly different, when set against any number of platformers, "action-adventure" games (uh, that meaningless pigeonhole) or personality-propelled puzzle affairs.
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The original mobile puzzler—in which the franchise's Agent 47 moves on rails around a board to position himself for the hit, while every turn you take also allows enemies to move—came out in April 2014 for iOS before being ported to Android a few months later and Windows the following year.
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Truth is, the vast majority of VICE Gaming articles are celebratory, full of hope for the entertainment industry's fastest-moving medium, something that we should all be involved with, whether that's through high-spec PC rigs or by spending ten minutes with a match-three puzzler on our smartphones while riding the bus to work.
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Meanwhile, Epic also today announced a number of new titles coming to the Store, including third-person open world survival game Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, interactive drama Beyond: Two Souls, first-person shooter The Cycle, interactive crime drama Heavy Rain, strategy game Industries of Titan, 3D puzzler Kine, and single-player sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds.
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I don't think it's too much of a stretch to claim the dormant puzzler series probably saved my life, as 2004's Myst IV (which Miller had nothing to do with) was a bridge between me and one of my professors when I was at a low point in my graduate studies at the University of Chicago.
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Patton reprised his role, albeit in a somewhat hammier fashion, in The Darkness' bombastically fun if frustratingly brief sequel of 2012 (from which all of these screenshots are taken), and followed up on his video gaming debut by contributing mechanical growls to Valve's imperial puzzler Portal, and voicing the protagonist of the 2009 reboot of Bionic Commando.
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Coventry's brooding narrative, in varying parts philosophical action-adventure, travelogue, family drama, war chronicle and psychological puzzler, is suffused with the ever-querying perspective of its haunted central character, who, for reasons that don't cohere till the book's final chapters, appropriates his older brother's experiences as a pilot spared by injury and illness from the massacre at Gallipoli.
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There's Good Stuff coming for the Switch, of course— ARMS is an original first-person fighter with a motion-controlled twist (of the wrists), Splatoon 21991 is more of what you liked about its predecessor, and Tequila Works' terrific puzzler Rime is a perfect post-Zelda pick-me-up, but disappointingly, it's not arriving on Nintendo's system until several months after other platforms.
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"It's incredibly important for Africans to see themselves in games, and for Africans to be making games, too," Myres stated, citing examples like the 2016 Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan, a role-playing game based on African mythology developed by Kiro'o Games in Cameroon, and Rangi, a 2017 VR puzzler designed by Funsoft in Casablanca that was inspired by African culture.
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Not since Tetris on the Game Boy (at which I'm currently 23th in the world) has a puzzler wrapped its invisible arms around my head and jammed my face into the screen, refusing to let it go until my battery dies or my wife demands I stop playing it in bed because it's 3am and my stylus-tapping is keeping her awake.
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Final call, and as tempted as I am to claim the NES Classic Mini as a qualifying compilation package, rather than a piece of hardware, or Rez Infinite's hypnotic Area X as a game in and of itself, I'll instead celebrate the terrific puzzler Picross 3D: Round 2, which has taken up residence in my 3DS recently and immediately put both Pokémon Sun and Fire Emblem Fates in the shade.
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Facebook doesn't allow payments or ads in Instant Games yet, but the games themselves can be ads, like this one for The LEGO Batman Movie Facebook doesn't allow payments or ads in Instant Games yet, but the games themselves can be ads, like this one for The LEGO Batman Movie We reviewed the full slate of launch games and liked psychedelic platformer Endless Lake, puzzler Wordalot, and arcade classic Space Invaders the best.
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Though Barr seemed penitent, she raised plenty of eyebrows when, in a now-deleted tweet, she claimed a number of strange excuses for her earlier tweet about Jarrett — including blaming Memorial Day and the sleep drug Ambien: She followed up this puzzler with a few more apology/Ambien tweets that she also then deleted: Granted, Ambien is known for making people act in erratic ways, and this certainly wouldn't be the first time the sleep medication has made people act — or been blamed for them acting — in terrible ways.
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