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The developers at Team Bondi captured the look and feel of 1947 L.A. in their highly anticipated game L.A. Noire, but not without help. Archivists from the UCLA Department of Geography to the Huntington Library shone a light on old maps, aerial photographs and the city’s seedy underbelly to provide
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This Fabian Gonzalez creation dares you to see if you can name them all. –Lana Polansky [via]
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The Neuroshima Hex series has a long history. And according to Tim Maly, the wrinkles of old age are beginning to show. He explains why Neuroshima Hex Puzzle is a game that has too much baggage: There is a higher enforced-text-per-minute density here than in Myst, which, you may recall, is a puzzle
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Keeping up with mainstream video game news is tough. We’re here to help. -Sony develops refined AR technology “SmartAR.” -Harmonix to unveil a new title at E3. -Square Enix presents 20 minutes of Final Fantasy Type-0. -Basketball player Blake Griffin shows off his skill in an ad for id Software’s R
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Remember the Atari Mindlink? You probably don’t. It was an unreleased 1984 controller which promised hands-free, brain-powered gameplay. Now welcome to the future, where Toronto’s Interaxon has developed a series of crazily sophisticated brainwave-powered games which help people relax and focus thei
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Snappy Touch’s Casey’s Contraptions possesses the building blocks of imagination, as well as the building balloons and the building skateboards. Richard Clark takes a look at this iPad game’s giddy jumble of good old-fashioned creativity and refreshing youthfulness: But I never forgot about The Inc
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Just kidding. Ivan Stoiljkovic, seen here in a commanding pose with a Samsung Galaxy Tab stuck to his chest, allegedly has other curious powers: Ivan, 6, is purported to posess an extraordinary and seemingly magical talent: the ability to attract metallic objects — from spoons to heavy frying pans
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Stephen Astley, a very crafty assistant headteacher at a UK high school, has created an educational game based around doing homework and revision that kids actually seem to like. Technology professor and department head of another UK high school, Jo Bleasdale, is impressed: “I decided to use it with
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The notorious Russian Prime Minister and a scantily clad woman (except for the fur hat, because it’s cold in Russia) who may or may not be former Russian spy Anna Chapman are now appearing as heroes in a new computer game. Voinushka, aka Shoot’Em Up, represents Putin as a pistol-wielding, cool-heade
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A new board game called LifeTimes: The Game of Reminiscence rewards its players by stimulating their memories. Mary Jane and Carol McPhee created the memory game to help their 86-year-old mother, who is in the early stages of dementia, keep her mind sharp: “We found when we would ask Mom questions
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Here is the beginning of a giant infographic from OnlineComputerScienceDegree.com detailing the lifespan, and eventual end, of computers as we know them: See it in its full glory here. And dare yourself not to hear the original song in your head as you read it. –Lana Polansky
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Nintendogs + Cats for the 3DS is your typical pet sim. But for Jon Irwin, that’s exactly why it lacks the feeling of caring for a real pet: What does it mean to love a fake version of a real thing? How do we become attached to, essentially, lines of code? I guess if you zoomed in close enough, even