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The notion that monster figures reflect the collective unconscious is not exactly news. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein made a bold statement about inherent alienation symptomatic of modernity while the 1950s Invisible Man addressed racial identity at the onset of the Civil Rights Movement. Even the ove
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With so much time and effort spent making virtual weapons in games like World of Warcraft and Monster Hunter, or cobbling together world monument #122 in Minecraft, it is refreshing to see a person who is actually making something. Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker is a short documentary that focu
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First, it was the music industry. Then, newspapers. Now the television business is feeling the pinch as younger generations are turning to the internet to watch TV shows and movies, hanging subscription services out to dry. According to the chairman of Dish Network: Young people who move to an apart
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48 Pixeles isn’t just worth checking out because of the gorgeous pixel art taken from classic games. The artist who sometimes goes by “48” has created LGBT pixel fan fiction, and the results are beautiful, warm, and sometimes a bit cheeky. Famed indie developer Anna Anthropy led us to it. “what i pa
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Game writer and KS contributor Gus Mastrapa has a new column about standing in line for Modern Warfare 3. You can feel the desert air. The story doesn’t take the turns you might think. I’ll admit that I was made for living in that other, more rare America where people hammer out police procedural te
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There aren’t many avenues for indie game artists to showcase their work, and yet another one has closed its doors to developers. Vimeo’s policy prevents creators from uploading videos of gameplay unless they’re willing to cough up $199 a year, which can be a lot of money for a small developer. In an
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Nobody asked how the Force works. Yet George Lucas told us anyway. Knowing it came from organisms called midi-chlorians living in the bloodstream kind of ruined it. This is just another case of too much informationsomething videogames are constantly giving us. In a recent blog post, game critic Sc
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Until now, transmedia has been held to the obscenity test. You know it when you see it, but its hard to come up with a definition. When I interviewed Jim Babb for the Public Play issue, even he had trouble summing it up-and he has helped create several successful transmedia projects! Thankfully, a g
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Kevin Gifford was collecting gaming magazines while most teens his age were collecting magazines on a very different subject. Now Gifford is donating his extensive collection of over 8000 magazines to the Strong Museum’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) in Rochester,
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Love the thrill of being stalked, but not the consequences? PerambuLit lets you duck around the corners and into cafes to avoid imaginary stalkers and suspicious stranger. This alternate-reality game turns a tour of downtown Boston into a suspenseful Choose-Your-Own Adventure. Just think of it as an
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If you’re wondering why it looks like that, that’s just the touch-screen capability. This thing’s still in its early stages, so don’t get too excited. Judging from the schematic, here are some other things this could possibly be: Periscope Woodchipper Half an upturned aqueduct Meatgrinder What you’d