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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,
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The trouble with the digital and physical worlds is that they’re separated by screens. The Tangible Media Group at MIT has partially solved that problem with inFORM, a “Dynamic Shape Display,” and it looks amazing. Basically, it’s a bed of rectangular pieces that rise and fall, capable of displaying
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Dave Gilbert, our neighbor New Yorker and bossman at Wadjet Eye Games, has revealed that he is rereleasing his acclaimed point-and-click adventure The Shivah for iPhone and iPad next week. The cheekily-named Kosher Edition gives a makeover to his 2006 game about a rabbi unraveling a murder mystery.
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So much for free play and good times. With the Three Spirits update, DOTA 2, that other MOBA game (we’ll stop with the acronyms soon–promise), is getting (even more) serious. I’m talking in particular about the addition of coaching mode. This new feature will allow players with more experience to gi
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This video breaking down the artificial intelligence in Skyrim is one of the clearest explanations of the problems with enemy A.I. I’ve seen. Using Skyrim’s user creation tools as a testing ground, the author tweaks the behaviors of halfwitted mages until they become adaptive, formidable adversaries
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In case you’ve missed the lines of sleepless people standing outside your local big box store, the PlayStation 4 launches tomorrow. And if you haven’t noticed, (and at this point you’re not too observant are you?), Sony’s new monolithic gaming machine is slanted. But this is more than a stylish deci
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In 1979, during the Iranian Revolution, Navid Khonsari was ten, walking through the streets in Tehran, holding his grandfather’s guiding hand. Soon after, he relocated with his family to Canada. Earlier today, on Kickstarter, he launched a campaign for a game about that tumultuous period of his life
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One of the profound things about Portal was the surreal way in which it bent perception, when you’d be staring into a portal and seeing the back of Chell’s head. Reset, by Theory Interactive, takes that as a starting point, and things only get weirder from there. As seen in this reality-bending new
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Up till now, motion control has required you to swing around a remote-control baton, stand in front a motion-sensing camera, or swipe your iPhone. However, Chirp, a small chip engineered by a team at the University of California Berkeley, makes these bulky motion-capture devices unnecessary. You can
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Players of Natural Selection 2 have crowd-funded over 30 thousand dollars on Go Find Me to pay for the first Natural Selection 2 World Championship. This makes the competitive first-person shooter one of the newest and unlikeliest of esports. The event will be broadcasted at a yet to be announced da