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Like the fine motor touch over the analog stick that turns your finger into a dead eye, the Microsoft Touch Cover‘s pressure sensitive features are subtle. So subtle, in fact, that the feature was overshadowed by the screen when it was introduced—but the technology indeed opens up pressure senstive
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Tiny rhythm games are like glorified toe-tapping or dancing with your finger. When there’s no room to dance, dance, and revolt, try and flush the fever into your phone with Beatstream. The masterminds at Smule, who created Magic Fiddle, Magic Guitar, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina 2, and many other standout
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Innovation often reveals itself as one long, circuitous process. Or at least it seems like it when we rediscover people like Thomas Wilfred and his early-20th-century multimedia inventions. As part of their “Original Creators” series, the Creators Project recently remembered Thomas Wilfred. Coming
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If anything can come out of Penn and Teller joining the debate to haughtily call bullshit on politicians’ war on violent videogames, it’s a surprisingly sympathetic defense of the videogame medium in general. In a recent interview with Game Informer, Teller lets down his spiked Libertarian guard for
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Because we’re apparently that much sicker of playing with toys and games—but mostly because the videogame industry is doing that much better than film—Need for Speed will now also become a movie. Dreamworks will produce while Scott Waugh directs. The Act of Valor director, having spent time getting
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Since 1995, Ocean Quigly has gone from artist, to art director, to creative directer for the Sim City series. But in his interview with Gamasutra, he talks like he’s been designing since 1940. The latest in the series promises a modern city of structural integrity, where the aesthetic is drawn from
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video So that the console controller might eventually be spared its grimy-kids-toy aesthetic, grad students at MIT have made a circuit board that will turn any conductor in the natural world into a device for play. The MaKey MaKey uses alligator clips to carry your electronic touch to the board and
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The 24-hour news cycle has dislodged and reached escape velocity. From its broken transmissions we have forged today’s headlines. -Thatgamecompany makes a nice bundle of its groudbreaking titles. -Metal Gear Solid 5 is going to happen. -From the designers of Portal, Quantum Conundrum was released t
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Perhaps a shameful realization of the misdirection of some of our best technology, rendering engines typically used to for immersive battlefields can now immerse you in the colon of Larry Smarr. In a new Atlantic profile and its companion video, Smarr baits scientists and hospitals to usher digital
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If it wasn’t for Mario, if people actually thought vacuuming could be fun, then Nintendo might still be making these tiny guys from 1979. The dimpled and curved lump called the Nintendo Chiritorie (“dustpan”) could only turn left and clean up toy spills. What, the sticker set wasn’t enough to sell i
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So you’re suddenly attracted to someone, trapped in a nauseating, tangential game of circling around the beautiful pseudo-stranger until the only choice is appoach or run- perhaps for something better. Chairlift’s new video allows both: the payoff of seeing each dazzling/tragic outcome. The video be
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Helping to deconstruct that choose-your-own-adventure books and novels are mutually exclusive in theory, the new online writer’s tool, http://writer.inklestudios.com, is a platform for spinning divergent narratives as well as editing them. It works to disarm prejudice a writer’s writer might hold fo