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NPR has a fascinated feature on the popularity of the Glock pistol. Invented by curtain-rod manufacturer Gaston Glock, the gun was lauded for its light weight and accuracy, but it wasn’t until the Glock entered the parlance of Hollywood that its popularity skyrocketed. Paul Barrett, author of Glock:
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Dear Esther, the absolutely gorgeous remake of a Half-Life 2 mod, developed by Mirror’s Edge artist Robert Briscoe, is a treat to look at. Be sure to check out the scenery in a larger resolution at DeadEndThrills, who captured these shots of the game “with top-of-the-line antialiasing and quality se
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In a move that’s 50% crowdsourcing and 100% American, Dungeons & Dragons is turning to the players to fix its ailing orc-slaying system. With the new edition and the call for feedback, in a “hearts and minds” campaign, Wizards of the Coast is attempting to rally players to the cause. The strategy ce
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Thoreau said, “Simplify, simplify, simplify,” and Matt Rix’s new Scorekeeper XL is the perfect companion for the gamers and/or the vindictive. It’s free to check it out. We’ve started using it at the office to track who leaves the toilet paper in the bathroom. [via Zach Klein]
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The home of internet file-sharing Pirate Bay announced yesterday a new category called “Physibles:” We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasi
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Feric Feng is a Yale-trained, Taiwanese illustrator who worked on The Animatrix and Final Fantasy film. His new project explores the world of Roda, a hapless robot with a league of similarly whimsical robotic friends. He’s trying to make a game and so far, the art looks fantastic. -Jamin Warren
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Tom says it looks like the Splicers from BioShock. (It’s the hats.) Ryan says its somewhere between The Triplets of Belleville and Team Fortress 2. I just don’t even know what to say about short-pant scion Thom Browne’s new line. [via] [h/t .tiff]
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It’s that time again boys and girls, time to catch up on the happenings in mainstream gaming. – Microsoft’s abandoning its online currency system (Microsoft Points) in favor of real world money. – Dead Space’s developer, Visceral Games, is working on a new online shooter. – EA is adding 11 publisher
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Anyone who plays mobile games spends a lot of time thinking about their hands. So does Bret Victor who penned an incredible rant outlining what hands can, should, and will do. He closes his lovely rant on interaction design with a provocative quote: With an entire body at your command, do you serio
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I’ve always been fascinated by the use of “I” when we talk about our driving habits. “I hit that tree.” “I made a right turn.” “I was speeding.” That conflation of identity and machine is one of the rare instances that an object becomes us. (Playing games, of course, is the other exception.) A new t
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Nice try. [via Kotaku]
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Ever wonder exactly why the creatures in Silent Hill are so revolting or the squishing in Dead Space is so repulsive? A crop of new studies on the science of disgust are bubbling up, according to the Times. Valerie Curtis, a self-described “disgustologist” from the London School of Hygiene and Tropi