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Game characters have a hard time of it, but Boris has it harder than most. Arrested by the KGB for slighting the great Russian nation, he is given the option of death or servitude. He goes for the latter, and is given the job of manning an anti-ballistic missile battery, shooting down any rockets that might arc towards Russia. As it turns out, several have to be destroyed every day, and most are aimed at the very battery that you are in, so the stakes are pretty high. What makes it worse, making you feel sympathy for poor Boris, is that there are barely any missiles in the silos. So, while ro...

Dwarf Fortress (or, rather, "Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress") is a labor of love spanning nearly two decades. You take command of a generational colony of fantasy miners living in a mountain. Construct new mines, dig new tunnels, and keep your dwarves whistling while they work. And then wait for it to all go wrong. Dwarf Fortress is known for its incredible complexity and difficulty, where a single mistake can lead to tragedy. Tunneling too greedily and too deep can, for example, accidentally flood your dwarves' home when you hit some groundwater.  Famously unfinish...

Lineage OS The number of users, open-source code, and variety of tools mean that many developers choose Android as a more flexible way to get an app to market. The most popular apps of 2021 so far include a wide variety of engaging and entertaining games, including: Popular   People are downloading Donut County in their droves, a game where the player controls a hole in the ground that consumes everything it comes across. Starting with smaller scenery, such as grass and pebbles, before progressing to swallowing cars, buildings, and more, this game is one for fans of the absurd. The story be...

Mar. 4, 2021 , 2:00 PM Boom! The bomb exploded. But don’t worry—it was a virtual bomb, part of a game I started to play with my research group through teleconferencing in the early days of the pandemic. Called Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes ( KTANE), the game consists of a “defuser”—me—who has the bomb but no idea how to defuse it, and a group of “experts”—the members of my team—who have an instruction manual but cannot see the bomb. I have to describe the components of the bomb to them. They have to identify each component in their manual, figure out how to defuse it, ...

$299, amazon.com Welcome to The Esquire Endorsement. Heavily researched. Thoroughly vetted. These picks are the best way to spend your hard-earned cash. This morning, I got out of bed, rode my exercise bike, made coffee, did some other workouts, then skied down a mountain, which I followed with a mega boxing match and a cooldown that involved slashing squares to sick beats. All without taking a hallucinogen! It was made possible by my best friend—no, my soulmate—the Oculus Quest 2, the new boy king of virtual reality. Oculus makes a line of VR headsets that are fully wireless, fully self-...