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Ben Abraham reflects on Crysis 2: Crysis was actually two things: a tech demo, and a sequence of tropical playgrounds built to demonstrate how much fun it can be to jump off rooftops onto the heads of North Korean soldiers while a gentle breeze blows serenely through palm fronds. The game saw genera
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A group of Costa Rican designers are working on a new project that will translate tweets into actual gameplay changes. It’s a bit like Scribblenauts — whatever pops up on Twitter shows up in the two games they’ve created — a racing gaming called Route 140 and an action called Love City. The proje
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IN A GIF: The Game Boy load screen brings us back.
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This is a Wu-Tang Controller. That is all.
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I know the first thing we want to do when we Google something is be asked a piece of trivia. I know, I know, right? Every time I sit down and look for the answer of some other thing I don’t know, I want to be reminded of some new thing I don’t know. Hence, the existence of Google in the first place.
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This is the SupaBoy from a company called HyperKin. It plays SNES games on the go. That is all. [via]
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PAUSE: The photography and design of Alex Dram is the technicolor dreams of 2D consoles in a 3D world.
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This is a great find via the fine folks at the Lethe Institute. A Wired article from 1994 on the addictive, brain-sucking effects of Tetris. This piece of color is pretty hilarious: Even spanking new, Tetris was so addictive that Pajitnov himself was instantly hooked. He laughs, “You can’t imagine.
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Over at Next New Web, Courtney Boyd Meyers reports from the annual PSFK conference that the future of work is play. Digital strategist Aaron Dignan here: Why aren’t people doing what they want to do and why aren’t they engaged at work? Dignan asked, rhetorically. It comes down to two issues- a lack
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PAUSE: Scott Campbell’s Devo vs. Space Invaders Get the print here.
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Twitter was concerned a boon for protesters in Iran and Egypt who used the social networking service to communicate. We have a tendency to presume that the movement was widespread — that all protestors were using digital services equally. Of course, that was not quite the case and researchers at th