Joseph Bernstein
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Attention subway riders! iPhone 5 will deliver better graphics on a bigger screen
Apple revealed the latest iteration of their niche, hard-to-use, confusing and unpopular smartphone in San Francisco today, and there are a few takeaways for the small and elite handful of computer hackers that will use the iPhone 5 to play games: 1. A bigger screen means games will appear bigger. 2
Foreign Service officer killed in Libya was influential figure in EVE ONLINE
Sean Smith, one of the four Americans killed last night at the consulate in Benghazi, was a long-time player of EVE ONLINE and a beloved member of that game’s player community. A devastating eulogy on The_Mittani, as well as a testament to the power of online gaming social networks: I’m clearly in s
"Glitch art" finds meaning in tech failure
These kinds of artifacts are there all around us. Our technology is failing here and there in spurts and blips, and instead of approaching it as an annoyance or nuisance, we’re starting to actually appreciate what is given back to us. It’s part of the greater implications of our algorithmic world. A
The board game about gentrification
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
Steam makes a play for the living room; does the living room want a computer?
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
New Medal of Honor includes bin Laden movie maps; death house sold separately?
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
