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Keeping up with mainstream videogame news is tough. Here’s what happened over the last day or so. -Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 stuff leaked. -An EA Tiburon employee made a swan song for his fellow employees. -American McGee, creator of the Alice series, received funding for five more games. –Angr
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Mainstream videogame news can be tough to slog through. Here’s what you need to know from the last day: –Portal and Mortal Kombat nab top sales honors last month –Chrono Trigger comes to the Wii on Monday. -Sega, Creative Assembly announce new Alien game. -5th Cell, creator of Scribblenauts, bump b
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A California teacher is creating a new line of kid’s blocks on Kickstarter. Check ‘em out. I will create an original line of children’s building blocks made from salvaged wood. My goal is to educate children about where the wood came from and where it was going (i.e. the landfill) if I had not recla
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An Iowa State professor wants to muddy the waters on how we think about games being “good” or “bad” for kids. He says there are at least five dimensions on which video games can affect players simultaneously — amount of play, content of play, game context, structure of the game, and the mechanics o
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Where you and I might see bunkers in Space Invaders, Ernest Harris, Jr. sees ecological warfare. The Canadian artist takes a twist with LEGO pieces on the classic Atari game for an art show on sustainability: “In the context of notions of sustainability, these shelters function as metaphors for the
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Le Sénat #2 By Louis Fortier, 2007
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Our “pre-game” interview series rolls on with an interview with NBA Jam/NFL Blitz creator Mark Turmell. Our favorite piece is the unlikely adolescent origins of the famous catchphrase “He’s on fire!”: Did you have a big childhood secret? Yeah. I was really a pyromaniac. My buddy Elmer and I would wa
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CNN gives a nice intro to the world of Sid Meier, creator of Civilization: “Players have continued to respond to the game in spite of how far technology has come, in spite of how the world has changed, in spite of how the demographics of game players have changed,” Meier said. “Each game starts out
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Anish Kapoor. Untitled, 2008. Fibreglass and paint, 301×302×150 cm [via]
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Game Center Lecture Series- Erik Wolpaw from NYU Game Center on Vimeo. Writer Erik Wolpaw gave a talk at NYU’s Game Center the other week. It’s a bit long — but if you love Portal 2, this is an exhaustive look at the humor of the game.