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Keeping up with mainstream videogame news is tough, so we do the heavy lifting. -Capcom initially rejected Dead Rising and Lost Planet, but creator Keiji Inafune kept on keeping on anyway. -There may be a new console on the desks of people at EA. -Rockstar teams with Verve for new soundtrack featuri
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Japanese designer Kunihiko Morinaga did a sweet 8-bit line of women’s clothes for Japan Fashion Week. Designboom has more.: primarily composed of colourful square blocks of diverse fabrics, the clothing can appear relatively conventional from a distance, but at closer range its unusual pattern is re
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We interviewed Carnegie Mellon professor on games as pleasurable experiences: You create games for a reason: to be pleasurable. If it’s not pleasurable, you don’t want it. What happened is that people are realizing that game designers know something special. They have special knowledge which other p
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Features: -Authentic game dialogue -Motion detector, so it knows when you’re there and when you’ve left -Pressure sensor, so it knows when you’ve picked it up -Tilt sensor, so it knows when you’ve knocked it over -LED light-up eye -Exaggerated features for extra adorableness [via]
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Kuma Games, maker of the Kuma War, will release a new addition allowing you to battle your way through the Abottabad compound to take out Osama. Previously, Kuma had created a mission to kill Saddam and of course, the new Call of Duty: Black Ops has you assassinate Castro. Now, computer game develop
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Inspired by Minecraft, Etsy seller Laketide is offering this adorable little grass cubes for hearth and home. The cube is just over 2.5” on each side, and sealed with 6 coats of clear lacquer to help keep it durable. It isn’t intended as a toy, but I think these look really nice sitting on my desk.
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Mainstream videogame news can be a chore to wade through, so we’re giving you a hand. –Naughty Dog’s Amy Hennig thinks Uncharted movie shouldn’t be “too literal.” –Here’s a primer on the new game Rage from id Software, creator of DOOM & Wolfenstein 3-D. -The LA Times meets Rockstar’s LA Noire with a
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Bill Gates is looking at games as a way to increase the effectiveness of education. There have been several notable game x education projects such as Quest 2 Learn, who was profiled in the NY Times Magazine last year. Three of the lucky fundees below. $2.6 million for iRemix, which is being develop
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We take a look at Petri Purho, creator of Crayon Physics Deluxe, and his life as a magician: Petri Purho’s career as a magician began early. “I’ve been doing magic as long as I can remember. Instead of toys I would play around with my father’s magic props. I ended up doing my first live performance