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Want to know what happens to your body after 56 hours of Missile Command?
Hallucinations. Fatigue. Sleep deprivation. Madness. Victor Sandberg saw it all during his record-breaking Missile Command run.
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Dust off those MFAs. 19th century masters come to life in "artist simulation" game.
A history thesis that pieces together Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet, Avant-Garde is great because it steals almost everything.
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NASA game jam proves the future of space is at play
The Dark Side of the Jam game jam is NASA’s latest attempt to reinvigorate the general populace’s foundering interest in space. It seemed to have worked for this group of Brazilian game jammers.
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Rewind: How a tuna fishing documentary and heavy drinking inspired the launch of Ridiculous Fishing
More than a year ago, we interviewed the team behind the then-nascent Ridiculous Fishing. With the game finally available, we decided to revisit our visit.
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Robin Arnott engineers joy with heavy breathing, chants, and echolocation.
We talk to Deep Sea creator Robin Arnott about SoundSelf, the euphoric, psychedelic, and amazing joy-producing software that likes to be sung to.
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Was game show Legends of the Hidden Temple exploitative, hilarious or just schadenfreude?
I actually watched Legends of the Hidden Temple. A lot. Monday through Friday. It was a routine. I desperately wanted to be on the show, to run the Temple Run. It was like Indiana Jones for tweens. What I didn’t realize at my impressionable age is that it was a trial of public humiliation and shame.
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We predicted the $2m Torment project on Kickstarter last year
Not long ago, CRPG was an acronym you didn’t hear much anymore. Then, Kickstarter came along and the CRPG had its Rocky moment. And the latest runaway champion in the computer role-playing game comeback is Torment: Tides of Numenera. Kicked and funded in mere hours, Numenera is a continuation of Tor
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Between Lincoln and Einstein, who would win in an Eternal Duel of Wits?
Lincoln had an austere and rigorous way with words. The Gettysburg Address is memorable not only for the message but for its gritty elocution. Still, there was a smidgen of down-home earthiness to Lincoln’s speeches, as you can hear in a line like “a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of
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Board game Dog Nose Knows explains exactly what’s going through your puppy’s head
Whether you’re infatuated with a miniature pinscher, chocolate labrador, red pomeranian, or shih tzu, you doubtlessly think you know your pet pretty well. Dog lovers spend a great deal of time walking their pooches, getting them groomed, throwing them tennis balls, and sharing with them the bed and
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An Arabic translation of Ocarina of Time blurs the boundaries of culture and art
A group of fan translators spent three years translating a game they could already read pretty well. Why? Because Ocarina of Time looks stunning in Arabic.
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The glorious propaganda of Eve Online
Over at The Mittani, Alikchi has put together a fascinating article on the propaganda of Eve. It turns out intergalactic war among space fleets on MMO servers is not altogether different from the wars fought in real life on planet Earth. Both rely on vainglorious messages to recruit, rally the troop
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EyeWire and the Brave New World of crowd-sourced neuroscience games
The retina of the eye is wired with a superhighway of fiber, and the crowd-sourced research project dedicated to charting it is called EyeWire. It was codeveloped at MIT and Max Planck Institute for Medical Research under the tutelage of Dr. Sebastian Seung, a professor of neuroscience who specializ