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Microsoft has scrapped the idea to create a controller that sprays scent for the Xbox One. At first, I was glad; I can’t imagine Gears of War smelling like anything but burning tires and testosterone-drenched male. The research and development team got a similar reaction internally. “When we started
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The Smash Brothers tournament community were none-too-happy with the changes Nintendo made to Super Smash Bros. Brawl when it came to Wii, in 2008. So, a team has modded the game to bring it back to its former glory, dedicating “four years and thousand of hours” to the restoration. Called Project M
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Johnathan Tippett wants to make a giant, human-operated Rock’em Sock’em robot. Well, kinda. He’s calling it Prosthesis, a 7000-pound, two-story-tall “anti-robot.” The Prosthesis runs off of lithium batteries, and is built for the purpose of racing, not fisticuffs, although only one leg of the frame
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These are a few of the characters that you can hook up with in Namco High: the Galaga Ship; Lolo (from Klonoa); Valkyrie (yes they get a bit obscure, don’t they?); Anti-Bravoman (who?); Meowkie (Mappy); Mr. Driller (Dig-Dug’s son); Albatross (Rolling Thunder); and my personal heartthrob, Donko (the
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After designing Ultima Online, Raph Koster went on to write A Theory of Fun for Game Design, a book for game designers with a lesson for all of us. After ten years, it’s being republished, and its lesson still applies. We need to learn how to have fun. “After we grow up, we sometimes wonder, ‘Where
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If the internet is to be believed—and they should, at least occasionally—The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds for 3DS is sublime. And for that we owe credit to Monolith Soft, the Nintendo-owned subsidiary responsible for role-playing series that are prefixed with Xena, namely Xenosaga and Xeno
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An interview at Wall Street Journal painted Microsoft’s outgoing C.E.O. as an old battle ax at a company who is trying to move with the agility of a fencer. “Maybe I’m an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on,” he said. “As much as I love everything about what I’m doing, the best way for Micro
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This Sunday, if you’re in the N.Y.C. area, we highly recommend that you drop by the Commonwealth Bar, located on 497 Fifth Avenue, for a night of alcohol and friendly debate playing The Metagame. From 7:30 to 10 P.M., game designers Colleen Macklin, John Sharp, and Eric Zimmerman, collectively known
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Spelunky is a really great game, one of the best. But some players have taken it upon themselves to make the Windows version even better. In this bizarre modded version, of which we have no clue of its source (it was anonymously delivered to our inbox), Derek Yu’s modern classic has been outfited wi
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One of the dilemmas of playing boardgames is that you have to have enough intelligent friends with the attention span and free schedules to sit down and play them. For our lucky readers in Manhattan, that will soon be less of a concern, as The Uncommons, which claims to be the one and only boardgame
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You might know director Spike Jonze as the beautiful mind behind films like Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Where the Wild Things Are, and Her, the upcoming film about a man who falls in love with a synthesized computer voice. Or maybe as a guy with a really cool name. Why couldn’t I have been bor
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Bubsy 3D was just godawful, often claiming a spot on worst-game-of-all-time lists. If you played it back in the day, I’m sorry. Like witnessing a horrible traffic accident, it must be impossible to forget those nauseating pioneering 3D graphics. So, naturally, Bubsy 3D has been remade, ironically,