‘The Occupation’ might be a fun game, but I was stuck in a vent too long to find out

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The following review of The Occupation is spoiler-free, mostly because I couldn’t make it work long enough to see the ending.

Turing City, 1987. A bomb has gone off at the Bowman-Carson building, killing 23. Harvey Miller must use his cunning investigative journalism skills to crack this alarming whodunit wide open. 

To begin his investigation, Harvey will — pause for dramatic effect — probably need to wait for an   update.

The Occupation, a first-person perspective adventure from White Paper Games, has many of the parts necessary to make for an engaging and enticing mystery. Unfortunately, its insufferable mountain of bugs kept me from enjoying any of them. Instead, I was left confused, frustrated, and (above all else) stuck in a vent for 30+ minutes of playtime. Read more…

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NPR turns comedy game show ‘Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me!’ into an Alexa and Google voice app

NPR is turning its popular game show program “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” into a voice application for smart speakers, including both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant-powered devices. The new app lets listeners play along at home by answering the fill-in-the-blank questions from this week’s news – just like the players do on the NPR podcast […]

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This 2D game is so frustrating it’ll hurt your eyes just to watch someone else playing

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There are some games out that are so mind-numbingly rage-inducing that just the simple act of watching another human playing them is enough to bring on a cold sweat.

On Thursday, journalist Steve Noah discovered one of those games.

No idea what this game is called, but whoever made it, is the devilpic.twitter.com/Ec98aGXSDD

— Steve Noah (@Steve_OS) January 24, 2018 Read more…

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This 2D game is so frustrating it’ll hurt your eyes just to watch someone else playing

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Every product here is independently selected by Mashable journalists. If you buy something featured, we may earn an affiliate commission which helps support our work.

There are some games out that are so mind-numbingly rage-inducing that just the simple act of watching another human playing them is enough to bring on a cold sweat.

On Thursday, journalist Steve Noah discovered one of those games.

No idea what this game is called, but whoever made it, is the devilpic.twitter.com/Ec98aGXSDD

— Steve Noah (@Steve_OS) January 24, 2018 Read more…

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View More This 2D game is so frustrating it’ll hurt your eyes just to watch someone else playing