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Royals gives you the chance to be king for a day because you’ll die soon
Explore social climbing and your mortality in Royals Become king or die in exile trying It’s good to be the king. Everything else, less so.
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VR lets you see the world through Van Gogh’s eyes without losing an ear
Enter Van Gogh’s world but skip the madness VR project introduces impressionistic easter eggs
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Simon Stålenhag’s latest paintings depict sci-fi as through a child’s eyes
The beauty of an imaginary childhood is that it never has to end. You can keep going back to the well in search of inspiration. Thus, Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, whose 2014 book Tales of the Loop depicted the suburban milieu of his youth albeit with a sci-fi twist, is now raising funds on Kickst
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Crowdsourced mapping is being used to locate earthquake victims in Nepal
Crowdsourced map studies are being used to locate earthquake victims in Nepal The crowds that tried to find MH370 are now trying to help with the earthquake in Nepal
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Everything you ever feared about conversation now exists in game form
In Menagerie, the conversation never ends. Menagerie physically traps you in conversation. Welcome to Menagerie, the networking event from hell.
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The stock market’s roller coaster metaphor becomes literal thanks to VR
The stock market, which is a representation of transactions and not a physical reality, is commonly described as a roller coaster. The reasons for this are understandable: that fun thing you ride at the amusement park sounds way cooler than “the aggregation of buyers and sellers,” even if that’s wha
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Mystic Stickup has a plan to solve crime…with hypnotism
You’re walking down an alley alone at night when a hoodlum—a hoodlum with exposed biceps, no less!—demands that you hand over your money. What do you do? The obvious answer is to just hand over the money. It isn’t worth risking your life for a small portion of your net worth. But, as a million Batma
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Riot – Civil Unrest, the videogame riot simulator, gets more relevant by the day
There are sad nights on Twitter, nights where one scene of senseless repression bleeds into the next. There have been plenty of these nights in recent years: Tahrir Square, London, Bahrain, Ferguson. Last night, it was Baltimore. Soon it will be somewhere else. For brief moments, the phenomenon of w
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Selfies are your only weapon in this videogame
The invading army carried selfie sticks, or maybe those were just their arms. At this point, aren’t all arms just selfie sticks anyhow? Aren’t all arms just selfie sticks anyhow? In Selfie Assault, an entry to the Ludum Dare 32 game jam, your army of one is armed only with a cellphone. You walk aro
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The conspiracy theories are all true in this boy band dress-up game
What do aliens see when they look at One Direction? Do they see, a musical monstrosity straight out of Simon Cowell’s fever dreams, a band that can melt your heart with sincere ballads like the sublime “Gotta Be You”, or a blank cultural canvas that can be used to take over the world? use your boy
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At 1 World Trade Center, history and elevators make for an awkward pairing
There are things you want to see while locked in an elevator. And then there’s the sight of the neighboring skyscraper suddenly disappearing from the skyline. The elevators leading to 1 World Trade Center’s observatory offer both. This is not a malicious prank. As they ascend to the 102nd floor, the
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9 Squares captures the wonderful dialogue of gif culture
Remember Hollywood Squares, the 1990s American quiz show in which panelists—including a definitely-not-high Whoopi Goldberg—were seated in three stacked tiers, each of which contained 3 boxes? There were audience participants, sure, but Hollywood Squares was really about the interaction between the