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Consoles previously deemed suitable for “hardcore gamers” alone have been going through lots of rebranding strategies as of late to become more family-friendly “entertainment centers.” But here’s one you probably haven’t heard of before, courtesy of the “Compact, Hyper-Insulated Prot House otype Sol
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Back for that daily dose of mainstream gaming news. – Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo has said that the Wii U will launch by the end of this year. – Insomniac won’t be making any additions to the Resistance franchise. – The fallout from last year’s M-rated games legislation has left California
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A lot has been said about stereotypical gamers that lead many of us to despise online gaming in its entirety. But like any area of human contact, multiplayer videogames define large areas of public space that naturally cohere into different forms of sociality and behavior. A new study featured in Ga
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While some of the world’s leading museums have starting gamifying their content in one way or another, how games themselves fit into curatorial content remains an open question. This year’s GDC will tackle the question with a unique exhibition: The ‘History Of 3D Games’ exhibit includes original gam
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In a long NYT profile of the precipitous rise of UFC as a national pastime, Dana White, one of UFC’s owners had some choice words on what makes the bloodsport so popular: Unlike a double-play ball or a pass-interference penalty, a fist to the face requires no further explanation for a foreign audien
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Over at Salon, Matt Zoller Seitz reflected on a string on surveillance-themed TV shows and argues that our current obsession with live imagery has turned us into “watchers:” Modern TV series reflect this, especially the shows that revolve around military action, national security, domestic crime and
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Read the rest of Asaf Hanuka’s The Realist here. (He worked on one of my favorite animated films
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The Final Fantasy series is at a crossroads: After the poor reception of the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, developer Square Enix chose to revisit the sporadically stunning but ultimately flawed Final Fantasy XIII, releasing a direct sequel to that game rather than introduce an entirely new installment t
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I’m sure you’ve heard the complaint before. All art is a subjective experience. So what place do we have pretending to be “critics” when objective criteria for analysis doesn’t really exist? Leigh Alexander raises the question in an interesting Edge piece: People don’t talk about Ocarina in terms of
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How many space marines have been capped in Halo 3 multiplayer? Enough for the entire alphabet to be recreated out of mangled corpses. The Halo Corpse Alphabet was a rather macabre project with the goal being to represent every letter of the alphabet by the twisted, curved, stretched, and otherwise
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Author of The Lords of the Rings, a book which influenced exactly half of all computer games made before 1990, J.R.R. Tolkien was once nominated for a Nobel prize in literature. He didn’t get it. Why? The prose of Tolkien who was nominated by his friend and fellow fantasy author CS Lewis “has no
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Escapist points out that there’s a new video going around the YouTube that’s a scene-for-scene remake of Star Wars: A New Hope, as made in fifteen-second chunks. Some chunks feature wicked stop-motion animation, including a killer thing where Darth Vader is a spontaneously emptying and refilling bot