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Upstairs, in Tarun Tahiliani’s massive Gurugram atelier with exposed brickwork and vaulted skylights, is an 850 sq. ft. room. Twenty-two full-sized glass and wood cupboards, built parallelly, hold 6,000 physical items, including original…

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Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Nintendo SwitchA vividly arresting mystery adventure soaked in ambiance, personality, and a seemingly limitless imaginative streak. DualShockers was provided with a copy of the game for review…

I have to hand it to the development staff of Rain Code: They are very skilled at completely upending your expectations from the get-go. I certainly expected to be shocked and surprised, given that these are the minds behind…

Owens, who has spent more than two decades working at the records center, is a burly guy in his early fifties, wearing deliberately distressed jeans with zippers across the thighs. Mostly bald with a short graying beard, he is a trained…

Rick-rolled We’ve had some real treats join the humongous Arcade Archives range this past month. Not only did we get rare puzzler Tetris: The Absolute Grand Master 2 and run ‘n’ gun classic Rolling Thunder 2, but this week sees Hamster…

Mars Needs Cheerleaders Following a fortnight of run ‘n’ gun action and top-tier puzzling, we’re going back to the stars with Hamster’s favorite genre, the shmup — Available on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, it’s the Arcade Archives’ newest…

I set my scanner for JPEGs at 70 percent compression, then assembled them into PDFs. Fast and cheap. I also took photos of various ephemera with my phone at god-knows-what resolution. Not every version of every poem would survive. But I’d…

Bravo, man There’s nothing a love more for a Saturday than giving you all the good word on a particular oddity joining the Arcade Archives range — And this week’s entry sees “oddity” doing some heavy lifting, as Hamster unleashes Bandai…

The true test of ergonomics returns Another pretty special release has joined the Arcade Archives release, as publisher Hamster rolls out the intensely puzzling and bizarrely titled Tetris The Absolute Grand Master 2 Plus — now…