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No Time to Relax: Porcelain Fortress Simulates The Chaos Of Life
Video games are a complex phenomenon. Simultaneously a multi-billion-dollar global industry, a modern form of mass entertainment, an emerging art form, and a lightning rod for cultural debates, their emergence can be hard to parse. But for many players, the appeal is…
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It’s A Frog’s Life: Aska Studios Aim To Make A Splash
“Why frogs? That’s easy,” says Halldór Heiðberg, smiling broadly. “I lived in Sweden as a kid, and I used to collect frogs from the backyard and bring them into the house. My mom would be so mad. I’ve loved frogs ever since.…
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Word On The Street: Watcha Playing, Gamer?
Located by the Smáralind mall, Arena is a relaxed gaming complex and state-of-the-art arcade where gamers gather to catch a dub or take the L (hello, fellow teens! We’re young too!). The Grapevine visited on a rainy summer afternoon to ask why…
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Editorial: Video Games Are Growing Up
There’s a certain stigma attached to being a gamer. And I mean… I get it. For a lot of Gen Xers and elder millennials, video games are something experienced through kids and cousins, whether they’re hustling cash for Robux, sweating over a…
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Let The Games Begin: Inside Iceland’s Rising Video Game Development Scene
It isn’t often that an entirely new cultural medium is born. But over the last few decades, video games have taken over the world. With over three billion active players, games have emerged as both a new art form and a vastly…
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Chasing The Phantom Spark: The Iceland-made racing game that’s gathering real momentum
You are an iridescent bug, skating at high velocity across a wide, glassy surface. You speed effortlessly forward, arcing smoothly between coppery pillars and rusty ruins, finding the path of least resistance — a graceful, chitinous speed skater. Ahead, a ghostly shape…
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Gear Up For Battle, Card Game Style
Collectible card games (CCG) are pretty hot right now in the world of video games, as the usually-tabletop medium has made its way into the digital world. So it was fairly exciting to hear the news that 1939 Games, founded by Guðmundur…
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Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding Is Totally Set In Iceland
Death Stranding, the long-awaited release from video game genius Hideo Kojima, could not more obviously take place in Iceland if it was called “Death Stranding In Iceland”. Alert fans have long been aware of the hints, dropped by the master himself over…
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Welcome To Geekjavík: Where To Release Your Inner Nerd
Being into something is hip and being passionate about something is attractive—so being geeky is the new showing no emotions and having a ‘resting bitch face’. If you thought that Reykjavík only has bars and souvenir shops, well, get ready to be…
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Track By Track: Laser Life’s ‘Polyhedron’
Breki Steinn Mánason is the electronic mastermind behind Laser Life. He recently released his first album, ‘Polyhedron’, inspired by punk, post-rock, drum’n’bass and Nintendo. Breki played guitar in a band a while ago. The band split up when members moved away. He…
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Video Game Meltdown Brings Police To Gamer’s Home
In a small Icelandic town, one man’s ragefit after his defeat at a video game brought the police to his door. The West Iceland news site Skessuhorn reports that residents in the normally quiet Icelandic town of Borgarnes were met with a…
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Jotun: An Impressive Norse Game With Icelandic Voice Acting
There’s a new action-exploration video game out that our readers might be interested in for two reasons: it’s based on Norse mythology, and all the voice acting is in Icelandic. The premise of the game is that your character, Thora, dies an…
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CCP Games Veterans Land Investment Agreement
Some former employees of CCP Games have forged a deal with investors to keep making video games. VentureBeat reports that Klang Games – a video games company comprised in part of former members of CCP Games, of EVE Online fame – have…