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Blast from the past: "Pac-Man Fever"
THIS SONG. Think if Kenny Loggins wrote a song about Pac-Man. Now, take that hypothetical song and make it better. At last, you kinda-sorta have a conception of the song “Pac-Man Fever” by Buckner and Garcia from 1984. They say this song is supposed to be a parody, but a parody of what, exactly? P
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Hey, wanna buy your very own Batcave?
In a story straight out of the dungeons of John Hodgman’s More Information Than You Require, the powers-that-be are finally putting the house of Williams Lyttle, the legendary British “Mole Man,” up for sale. In his lifetime, Lyttle dug labyrinthine tunnels under his London home (see the above image
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No, really. You’re actually *in love* with your iPhone
And not in that jokey, “I’m-not-sure-I-could-live-without-it” type of way. There’s a new study that suggests we have the same feelings for our iPhones as we do for our partners. This comes at the heels of a recent study to see if the old adage of “technology is addicting” was actually true. As we hi
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In the future, we will all own this arcade washing machine
London designer Lee Wei Chen has created what he calls an “Amusement Washing Machine,” which is exactly what is sounds like. The idea spawned when the studying designer was no longer happy with just shooting alien invaders. He wanted to utilize his ‘wasted but enjoyable time’ and make it more produc
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Kill Screen & Capcom introduce "Fright Club." Pictureplane, Mux Mool to headline.
So we’re partnering with Capcom to launch the first ever Fright Club based on their zombie titles such as Dead Rising 2 Off the Record, Resident Evil : Operation Raccoon City, and Resident Evil Revelations. There will be drink specials from Sailor Jerry’s rum and of course, performances by Picturepl
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Tweet of the Day: Indie chanteuse St. Vincent on Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!
We’re fans of the ethereal tones of Ms. Annie Clark that stir our passions. But apparently, something else lights her fire. She has a point. (Thx J.P.!) -Jamin Warren
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Can gaming make you a better writer?
The New York Times has a piece on the dozen or so serious writers who honed their chops not through writing short fiction or practicing journalism, but by playing Ambermush, an online, text-based RPG from the 90’s that lasted until 2009. Consider the case of Jim Butcher, the author of the Dresden Fi
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PAUSE: Stack the Bones
Just in time for Halloween, you can now buy Stack the Bones a new game that’s well, like Jenga, but with bone-shaped blocks. For some reason, the game reminds us of this 1848 political cartoon featuring Zachary Taylor, but then again, some of us were history majors for two years. Anyway, like we sai
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Scientific Study Finds that Tutorials May Stifle Discovery and Exploration
Wired reports on a unique experiment that was meant to discover the impact different approaches to introducing a toy might have on the children’s attitude and pursuit of that toy. The first group was given the toy by an adult who acted as if she had just discovered it, and encouraged to find out exa
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The right music for the right patch of grass.
D.C. duo Bluebrain releases its new album Listen to the Light today. It takes the form of an iPhone app but it’s really a location-aware album composed for NYC’s Central Park. Check out the behind-the-scenes video here with Dischord’s Ian MacKaye and AOL’s Steve Case. We recently interviewed Bluebr
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Glitch: like life, but cuter
The above video is the trailer for the game Glitch, a new, free MMO that, by the looks of this trailer and press release, boasts (a) overwhelming cuteness (the press release brags that what makes the game different from everything else is that they have “egg plants”), and (b) the ramifications of in