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Happy August! Let’s welcome the new month with a fresh serving of mainstream videogame news. –A Song of Fire and Ice author George R.R. Martin pays Bungie Studios a visit. -Capcom wants you to decide Poison’s gender for the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken. -Creative director Trey Smith sings the
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Scott Laidlaw taught middle school for years, always incorporating games into his classroom. Now, as CEO and co-owner of Imagine Education, he’s bringing that expertise to classrooms across the country. His new game, Ko’s Journey, is based on a story Laidlaw heard while traveling in Peru. After rece
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Get ready for another eruption of mainstream videogame news! -Microsoft partners with IGN for Halo Fest. -Nintendo forecast is looking a little downcast these days. -Double Fine may be considering DLC for tower defense Trenched. -Ubisoft is impressed enough with its DRM for the rest of us. -NCSo
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We threw a party at New York’s Museum of Modern Art last night! It was called Arcade and it was a celebration of games, culture, and fun. These games were shown: Bit.Trip.Beat Echochrome B.U.T.T.O.N. (with extra-large buttons!) Starry Heavens (a life-sized boardgame by Eric Zimmerman and Nathalie
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The image seen above isn’t your everyday pixel art. In fact, it’s part of a game—err, more appropriately, a “vector graphics scripting framework”. The good people at Paper.js have created Q*bertify, an endlessly amusing vector graphics scripting toy which transforms any old image on your desktop int
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The question arises frequently: What did Dock Ellis feel that one day on June 12, 1970, when he threw a no-hitter under the influence of LSD? Editor-in-chief A. J. Daulerio of Deadspin.com, a sports and culture website, aimed to find out, using his Xbox 360 and a copy of MLB 2K11 in the pursuit of j
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In a recent interview with Pitchfork, Ernest Greene, who releases music under the name Washed Out and came to prominence after releasing homemade tracks on Myspace from his bedroom in rural Georgia, confessed to crushing a pig or two while on tour. I have an iPhone so I’ll play games quite a bit on
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Game Set Watch’s Eric Caolli has written a very insightful piece on morality in games—or, rather, the lack thereof. How does a game designer make moral decisions meaningful when restarting or reloading take only the push of a button? Through Christine Love’s Don’t Take It Personally Babe, It Just Ai
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Like so many of life’s pleasures, we believe catching up on mainstream videogame news should be simple. -Activision awards two indie game developers. -Meanwhile, EA Sports is considering publishing indie games. –Get a look at some actual gameplay footage for Batman: Arkham City. -Zynga wants YOUR o
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Get some more mainstream videogame news, hot off the press! -New details and gameplay videos for Soul Calibur 5 await here. -What you can expect Duke Nukem Forever DLC. -A new Pokémon game may be in the works, hint hint. –Get feverish over this NBA Jam “On Fire” gameplay video. -Want to erase sa