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From the Canadian artist Flavio Trevsian, a board game based on Monopoly and Life in which players redevelop a once-blighted Toronto neighborhood: Playing the game is fairly simple. Everyone assumes an identity, from mayor to developer to resident of the demolished development. There’s even an “acad
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Everyone knows Gamestop is broken. Here’s how to fix it:
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At Gamasutra, Kris Graft breaks down Steam’s big gambit for the living room: What Big Picture Mode really has the potential to do is bring the PC’s business and game development culture to the TV gamer. As Graft notes, the real issue in the short term is getting the computer into the living room. To
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The LA Times reports: Electronic Arts will promote the upcoming film “Zero Dark Thirty,” about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, with a pair of downloadable maps for its military video game “Medal of Honor Warfighter.” The maps are both drawn from real locations in Pakistan; one is a gun market and the
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A conversation with the woman who named a song after us, kind of
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The fifteenth anniversary of the most over-analyzed game in the history of the format has arrived. Can we please stop talking about it?
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In addition to the series’ trademark cogent and tidy storytelling, the new Metal Gear game will now feature both night AND day. Is it possible that the day/night cycle is actually a conspiracy of global proportions, involving the collusion of a hopelessly corrupt sun? By Majora’s Mask, we’ll soon kn
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Takeaways from the Times’ Saturday Valve profile: -Valve is working on a VR headset that appears to be in the same state of development as Larry David’s car periscope -It is strongly insinuated not rolling your desk around at Valve is a professional faux pas at best and a fireable offense at worst -
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A conversation with Miriam Bellard, the co-creator of Seduce Me
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Gamespot reports: Electronic Arts has no plans for any single-player-only games from its studios, according to EA Labels president Frank Gibeau… “I have not green lit one game to be developed as a single-player experience,” Gibeau said. “Today, all of our games include online applications and digita
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Or so it seems from these fifteen minutes of unshaven dilly-dallying in Naughty Dog’s postapocalypse. 300 meets Juno meets the Road! I guess at some point King Leonidas will beat a cannibal senseless with a hamburger phone, just not in this video.
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Minecraft developer Mojang announced yesterday a new project that aims to use the game as a tool to visualize urban redevelopment projects: “Block by Block” aims to involve youth in the planning process in urban areas by giving them the opportunity to show planners and decision makers how they would