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Today on KS: Nintendogs + Cats has its day.

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

Researchers give word games a whole new meaning.

This is pretty cool. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Stockholm University have created a videogame that uses garbled speech to figure out how infants learn language:  To uncover how spoken sounds are decoded, the research team designed a video game narrated in deliberately distorted

Today on KS: The Infinity Blade review writes itself.

Chair Entertainment’s iOS game about repetition and replay, which received a big multiplayer update this week, is a curious one to review. J. Nicholas Geist takes a stab or three at it. Infinity Blade may be a commentary on the grind of gaming, the relentless churn of killing and harvesting to gain

PAUSE: Nature photos still surprise.

This photo of camel thorn trees in Namibia is a photo. It’s not a screenshot from Outland. That orange backdrop? That’s a dune reflecting Namibia’s rising sun. And while the trees themselves look like etchings of a dream, they’re a very real part of one of the country’s largest national parks. It’s

The Navy makes a game about Somali pirate tactics.

The somewhat cleverly titled MMOWGLI makes one rethink the phrase “strategy game.”  Over 1,000 military and civilians will participate in MMOWGLI to come up with viable tactics for fighting Somali pirates.  Those participating in MMOWGLI will play as members of the multinational anti-pirate task for

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