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A new listing for 1337: A Game Novel about Gaming, by Mark Fullmer March 9, 2010
An elite group of ubernerd gamers are beta-testing a new interactive game developed by Real1st Games. They strain to preserve their friendship, morals, and sanity as they gradually understand what the game...
Felix Larsson reviews Six-Chamber Champion: "Instead of fun" March 9, 2010
"You’re in for an illegal game of Russian Roulette—you leave a millionaire or you don’t leave at all. The referee and the crowd sees to it..." - See full review
AmberShards reviews A Walk in the Park: "Short, As In Winnable in One Turn " March 7, 2010
"A Walk in the Park is not only a short game, it's a one-turn game, which makes it positively microscopic. Not only that, but winning is..." - See full review
AmberShards reviews Sea Captains: "Faintly Interesting" March 7, 2010
"Sea Captains is faintly interesting, but ends up crippled by a lack of implementation. Purple prose is everywhere. The first (and only?)..." - See full review
A new listing for Six-Chamber Champion, by C.E.J. Pacian March 6, 2010
Derelict Warehouse (sitting on the hard plastic chair) Crammed full of bloodthirsty spectators, the air is heavy with cigarette smoke and body odour. You sit at a simple plastic table opposite your opponent....
Audiart reviews Chaos: "'A void devoid of null and full of nothing'" March 5, 2010
"CHAOS aptly describes itself with this opening line. A weak attempt at surrealism which succeeds only in being abstract, CHAOS neglects..." - See full review

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