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Here’s the news for today: – Double Fine’s Tim Schafer has posted an awesome 35 minute long conversation between himself and his interviewee, adventure game guru Ron Gilbert. – Minecraft will soon be getting modding support. – Bethesda is hiring for a game for “future-generation consoles.” – Sega ha
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Dubbed “mixed reality architecture,” South Korea’s Live Park has more than 60 exhibits enable by RFID, Kinect, and other motion-sensing technologies. The above is obviously a promo video, but with more than $13m in investment, it’s certainly something that modern museums could learn from to make the
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Kevin Slavin points us to Balloon paperApp by French publishing house Les éditions volumiques with a fascinating spin on augmented reality games. The shadow work is really what makes the project work.
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You know what can be the worst? When you’ve lost your perspective in a game and can’t maneuver you/the camera out of your weird quagmire where you’re accidentally running into a wall because you can’t figure out how to swing the camera and then all of a sudden you just get straight SHOT. Maybe that’
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At Pace Digital Gallery this month, the new show Codings aims to show the computer as “an aesthetic, programmed device that computes on characters” on par with poetry. The curators explain: A three-line version of this program appeared in original 1982 _Commodore 64 User’s Guide:_ 10 PRINT “{CLR/HOM
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Bully is a documentary from The Weinstein Company on bullying coming out later this year. Recently, the MPAA gave the film an R rating which was appealed by the Weinsteins and after losing, they threatened to leave the MPAA. The crux of the Weinstein’s argument, as highlighted in the article on Slas
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Our friends over at Mr. Gif devised this simple illustration from a quote from the great Dr. Einstein. As a writer about games, I worry that we value encyclopedic knowledge about what games are what rather than what games are. -Jamin Warren [via Mr. Gif]
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It’s never a good idea to have too many cooks in the kitchen. Just ask the Miami Heat, or the Wu-Tang Clan. Okay, admittedly, those two examples make it sound perfectly rad. In fact, so does Ridiculous Fishing. When four superstar indies came together to turn a primitive PC game about shooting fish
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Trussed-up telenovela Downton Abbey, an Edwardian-set import, has captured this nation’s hearts and imaginations with its savvy combination of icy British subtlety and hot-blooded American-style romance. And much like your average everyday card-based RPG, the show often stages the fall of fiefdoms a
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Matthew Davis & artist/designer Justin Ma have taken their talents to build the IGF-nominated Faster Than Light. But now they need your help to finish the project once and for all. They explain: Many games have tackled the goal of recreating the feeling of space operas, but few have focused on the
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I think I might be the only person who genuinely enjoyed Lulu, last year’s Metallica/Lou Reed joint album. Lots of people were upset with how the album was basically a latter-day Lou Reed album with Metallica fucking around in the background, but once you get past your preconceived notions of what t
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And with Monday winding down, here’s today’s gaming news: – Pokémon White 2 and Black 2 have both been announced as the next Pokémon games. – Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is coming out March 20th for PS3 and Xbox 360, but PC fans will have to wait until May. – Borderlands 2 has released de