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The Olympics are rigged—not the games themselves, but the presentation, at least for those of us watching TV in the U.S.A. Over at The A.V. Club, Ryan McGee’s coverage of NBC’s coverage isn’t redundant—it’s warrented criticism of how NBC’s monopoly on broadcast narrates the Olympics in a very litera
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Because games are always better when you can brag about how good you are at them, Kamcord lets you record gameplay and immediately share to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and email. A large part of what made Instagram so successful was its ability to capitalize on memory-making. You saw something you l
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Four Badminton teams, two from South Korea and one each from China and Indonesia were disqualified from the Olympic badminton event because—according to sections 4.5 and 4.6 of the Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) Player Code of Conduct—the players “did not use the best efforts to win,” the New Yo
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Perhaps foregoing the necessity of getting a native English speaker to translate the copy selling your cartoonish, human-scale mech toy, Suidobashi Heavy Industry has revealed to the world their diesel-powered, piloted robot via a public showing at Japan’s 2012 Wonder Festival and several self-parod
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As part of the upcoming Babycastles Summit, Keita Takahashi—the endearingly sardonic director of the Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy—has teamed up with the avant-slacker game producers/party throwers Babycastles to carry out Takahashi’s real-world dreams of classic videogames, i.e. Dunk Hunt and P
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Drones court comparisons to videogames via the remote-controlled dissociation of violence and physical feeling between interface and human. It’s the idea that operating drones is so like a wartime flight simulator or shooter that soldiers are never convinced that they’re actually killing people. But
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Sight—a new short film making its rounds on the internet—is a grim tale of a seduction-turned-cock-block app that in reality seems to be about soft-tech’s colonization of human compassion via apps and gamification. It’s set at the endpoint of augmentation, at least for this very rich white guy. Appa
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The third in what looks to be a series (following a “Brief History of Videogames” and “Game Deaths“) of videogame montages that run from the first pixel to the latest BMP masterpiece, “The Evolution of PC Games,” dishes out references to the new canon of virtual desktop games. Of course, the result
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Puma’s interactive ad game, Run Puma Run, drops the languid austerity of their typical design for the sexy memory of the screen-lit suburban basement or the dingy arcade. Perhaps London 2012 could have predicted the pixelated fever dream of this year’s favorite screen fashion, but then again that wo
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A writer over at Make spotted this Paris game-store floor on Facebook. True, it’s flat, but is that really the right word for it?
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“Most people have no idea of any game designer. They might be able to name one, maybe.” —Rod Humble, executive on The Sims, Second Life, Everquest, The Marriage, etc. Perhaps it’s time we stop and let the developers, artists, designers, and directors do the talking. In preparation of an upcoming doc
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Because no human would ever stoop so low as to write voiceless, rote information and expect to get paid for it, Wikipedia has largely relied on bots since its launch. The BBC reports that the bots have only increased in number and gotten better, becoming better aggregators than even your most humble