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Jeff Ryan, in an interview with Slate, talks about how Super Mario Brothers established videogames’ first folk hero, and how those games influenced the obsessive nature of pop culture fandom going forward. According to Ryan, “[i]nstead of passively ingesting their entertainment, they study it in min
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From four students at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands, here’s Mac ‘n’ Cheese. No, not the delicious kind—the kind that’s an awesome animated short. Inspired by Team Fortress 2 and animated short Meet Buck (and perhaps channeling a little bit of Crank), the project took approximately fi
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Time to get zapped with some mainstream videogame news! -Gearbox has announced Borderlands 2, shared game’s first details and clues. -Activision has previewed its Marvel game lineup at Comic-Con 2011. -Blizzard sales on the rise, but does not plan to release a 2011 title. -Microsoft is preparing f
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Have you been feeling kind of weird today? Well, one reason may be that you’re glitching out. According to Nick Bostrom, philosopher at Oxford University, the chances that you’re a virtual creation living in a computer simulation are surprisingly high: This possibility rests on three developments:
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The photos above belong to a whimsical, oddly humbling series called Relics, created by photographer Cody Williams. Williams took the idea of bringing an era alive—the 1980s, no less—and bleached it: Relics is a project playing off the idea that the white Greek statues that we see now were once bri
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry has once again teamed up with Icelandic avant-gardiste pop singer Björk to create a music video for her new track, Crystalline. The result? A weird, retro, lo-fi collision of bad 1980s special effects and Missile Command. As it should be.
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As part of it’s Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects exhibition, MoMA recently put M.I.T.’s Senseable City Lab project, BackTalk, on display. To raise awareness about what happens with our discarded cellphones, printers and computers when we upgrade, BackTalk follows o
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Let’s contemplate some more mainstream videogame news! –Introducing the Just Dance 3 Kinect trailer. -Get the latest on Tekken X Street Fighter straight from the director. -Blizzard’s next WoW expansion may be called Mists of Pandaria. -Ellen McLain, voice of GLaDOS, will be lending her talents f
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-Capcom is promising its “final” version of Street Fighter IV is in the works. –Diablo III will require an internet connection in order to play at all. –Gears of War 3 will feature rapper Ice T, thrash metal band Body Count musically and otherwise. -What’s new in videogame litigation: Zynga is be
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Brick Lane Remix I by David Batchelor, picked out of the London streets. For more click here.