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Is it time for us to disregard the Turing Test?
The definitive test for artificial intelligence may be a little too, well, artificial.
David Shimomura
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Shadow of Mordor shines, despite its Tolkien skin
Let the nemesis free.
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A fan remake of the long-lost Indiana Jones game is underfoot
There is one game of note that Tim Schafer had nothing to do with.
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This may be the best pixel art being made today
A life in dots.
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New Vane trailer is so pretty even its dust is pretty
I never thought I’d be so interested in the dust that kicks up behind someone running. It’s kind of a throwaway. It doesn’t really have any effect on anything. It’s there and then it’s not. But there’s something about the way that Friend & Foe’s new game Vane does it that’s got me watching dust over
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New Bloodborne trailer shows horror is better with friends
I’ve always thought Bloodborne is what might happen if the raw brutality of Dario Argento merged with the insane hellscapes that must populate the mind of Clive Barker. The new trailer takes us to some spaces generally familiar to horror buffs, but does so beautifully. It even lets me do the thing I
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Final Fantasy XV gets weirder, adds sick car
There are not many other genres where four people with perfect hair, wearing all black, can ride around in a convertible that combines the suicide doors of a Rolls Royce with the bold roundness of an Audi, casually killing everything that they come across, and there be absolutely nothing be wrong wi
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British art installation unleashes disembodied shadows
The sun sets on Bristol, a not-so-sleepy city in the southwest of England. Like any other day, as the sun sets, the city lights will come on. Unlike any other day, 8 of those lights will actively capture your shadow and then replay it for passersby. Though that might sound like witchcraft, it’s actu
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Sketches from Radiohead’s Polyfauna app highlight the creative process
Say the words “Radiohead” and “new music” almost anywhere and you are bound to attract attention. Maybe even a lot of attention. So when I heard that Radiohead’s interactive wandering app, PolyFauna, from developer Universal Everything, was not only being updated but also that it had 8 new tracks th
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Fotonica, the prettiest running game ever, is coming to iOS this Thursday
Hyper-minimalist runner Fotonica is coming to iOS this Thursday. Developed by Italian design duo Pietro Riva and Nicolo Tedeschi, know together as Santa Ragione, Fotonica is not your average runner game. Pulling deep from their art and design backgrounds, Fotonica is a wireframe, minimal, trippy, th
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Biome is a god game that lets you do pretty much nothing, if you want
No Molyneux to be found.
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Spanish scientists make first steps toward actual telepathy
Has nobody watched Scanners?