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As a band, it must be strange to play in an empty room in front of thousands of people on the Internet. But hey, Kill Screen does that every night via air guitar and Chatroulette. But seriously, there’s finally a way to pester your favorite bands with “Free Bird” requests from a far. Seriously, ser
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PAUSE: Grand Theft Animal Crossing. [via]
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Melbourne-based Anna Schwartz Gallery is featuring the art of British sculptor Antony Gormley. The works reminds us a lot of our recent fave Sword & Sworcery: EP which also features angular models in contorted positions. For the gallery site on the show titled “Memes”: “A Meme is a cultural analogu
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Jerry Lawson, inventor of the programmable cartridge, has passed away at age 71. He is known for creating the Fairchild Semiconductor videogame console which featured removable cartridges, rather than having games built into them. The sad thing is that Lawson’s contributions were not noted until an
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“Play is training for the unexpected.” — ecologist Mark Bekoff
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This isn’t the first time augmented reality has been used for a magazine cover, but it’s a nifty demonstration nonetheless. Official Nintendo Magazine, the official Nintendo magazine, chose 100 Miis from their readers and popped them on their new cover via QR codes. If you are desirous of having 100
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So rad. When the idea for the first Bregenz Festival was tossed around almost seventy years ago, the Austrian city didn’t have the funds to build an opera house, so they constructed a makeshift stage against the city’s most beautiful natural setting – Lake Constance. The idea seemed wildly eccentric
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Film mag Little White Lies has a spot close to our heart, being a spiritual cousin to what we’re trying to do with videogames. The produce a different cover based on a recent film and their Tron poster just hit the shop.
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There is love….and then there is obsession. If you’re the kind of person who loves Apple products, we can understand that. But there are those who wish to adorn every surface of their home, perhaps even their bodies, with the silky, smooth sheen of Apple product design. If you are one of these peopl
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There’s chiptune music, of course, that incorporates videogame music into modern contexts, but for one musician, music is best made by not even turning on the machine. [thx, casey!]
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Japanese kids take refuge from the quake through their Nintendo DS. [via tinycartridge] “Japanese refugee children play with their personal video games inside a gymnasium used as a shelter in Fukushima, northeastern Japan”, captured by David Guttenfelder.
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A dramatic re-envisioning of Angry Birds as Hitchcock-ian thriler…. “Alfred Hitchcock’s Angry Birds“, by Zero-Lives.”