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A group of kids out of Cumbria have decided that the best way to raise awareness about mental health disorders was to create a game. Finlay Miles, 13, Matty Goad, 16, and Reuben Kane, 14, all have Asperger’s syndrome and came up with a design featured a character named “Naked Edgar” a cartoonist’s d
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Welcome back to the Rap Map! Today, we talk to Dallas, TX’s own Dorrough, who talked about playing videogames with Slim Thug, gambling against Ace Hood, and his debilitating Angry Birds addiction. Do you play videogames with other rappers? The last rappers who I played a videogame with were probabl
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Will Wright, acclaimed designer of classics Sim City and The Sims, is looking to create a new type of game. Dubbed “personal gaming,” Wright is trying to create games that shape themselves after the person playing them. “How can we make a system that understands enough about you and gives you situat
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On the same day that Matthew Briet blogged about his Minecraft addiction, Translational Psychiatry published a study that linked videogames and addiction. According to BBC, Brain scans showed a larger ventral striatum, which is the hub of the brain’s reward system, in regular gamers… the region is “
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This web comic by LadyLooLauren bears a striking resemblance to Gus Mastapa’s own salivating escapades through Skyrim. Uncooked potato and cabbage. It is raining by the time I get to Rorikstead, a small weatherbeaten farm on the far end of the tundra. Small plots are ringed in by a low wicker fe
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Jody Brown of Arch Daily defines design as such: Design is about finding a balance. There’s a Japanese word for the place in between “ma”. It’s the interval of time between two things. It’s the point in the swing of a pendulum when the object switches from an upswing to a downswing. It’s the pause
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While the pixel art community is still flourishing, its use in mainstream games might be in decline. In a wonderful article by Fred Dutton, videogame pixel artists are asked to chime in about how the leaps in technology are changing videogame art. The humble DS is arguably the final platform where t
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Architecture Daily has an article about a guy named Enrico Deni, who invented a new type of 3D printer to help him actualize his dream building. Imagine a world in which level designers could playtest and iterate on their ideas in their backyards. Full circle. Dini became a civil engineer and later
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Rock Paper Shotgun has a funny, heartwarming story of a Skyrim player accidentally killing a member of his party, and then throwing her up a hill and into a coffin, and then burying her after unsuccessfully trying to revive her. The entire thing is great, but here’s the death in question: I returned
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A recent study has found that children who play excessive amounts of videogames have their brain wired like gamblers. Those that usually spent more time playing on their computer had more grey matter in a part of the brain which is rich in dopamine, a chemical which makes us feel pleasure and reward
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In the 1830s, a mathematician named Charles Babbage drew up a set of plans for a programmable machine that ran off of punch cards. He called it an “Analytical Engine.” Everyone thought he was crazy. A hundred years later, somebody created basically the same thing that Babbage designed and called it
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Sex is traditional thought of as an offensive and defensive game, with the man trying to steal home, while the woman hopes to get three outs to end the inning. Getting youth to think outside of this stereotype is one of the goals of a forward-thinking sex education class that is written about in thi