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PAUSE: What Michael Scott and Counter-Strike now have in common.
Or, Dwight Schrute’s favorite map. – Lyndsey Edelman
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James Franco’s Oscar fight could bode well for digital game actors as well.
James Franco is understandably upset that his co-star’s work is not being recognized. In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Andy Serkis plays Ceasar, the leader of the Ape rebellion and central character of the film. Franco argues that Serkis’s performance is aided but not defined by the technology tha
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Cheat Sheet 1/27: Steam has a mobile app, Nintendo is launching a new online service, and a Mass Effect 3 multiplayer trailer
Get excited! It’s time for more mainstream gaming news! – Steam has a mobile app on both iOS and Android. Get rid of your phone or your credit card if you want to keep eating. – Nintendo is taking another stab at this “online gaming” thing the kids are talking about with Nintendo Network. President
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PAUSE: Capturing the world of Ikea through a child and an Xbox.
Amy Lombard is a Brooklyn-based photographer who’s started a new Kickstarter project to document the life of people who shop at Ikea. The above boy and his Xbox are recent captures: To elaborate a little more on the project – As a photographer, I am not necessarily interested in staging reality so t
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Dear MLB 2K12: The Reading Phillies have some new features for you. Yes, it involves a dunk tank…
This is just insane. Makers of MLB 2K12 and MLB: The Big Show take note: The team will host a party for 500 people on an infield that features a bar, a full-service grill, an oyster bar and a dessert stand. A 12-foot screen will protect the party attendees from errant line drives and any advances
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Babycastles takes over the Hayden Planetarium.
Last night and last night only, the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium here in New York hosted independent gaming collective Babycastles for an evening of gaming and science. The sold out event, entitled Cosmic Cocktails and Space Arcade, included access to the exhibit, Be
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Would more people design games if programming languages weren’t so difficult?
John Pavlus at FastCoDesign jumps into a new study that looks at the obtuseness of programming languages like Perl. The problem, according to the study, is these coding languages are “so ridiculously opaque that, from the perspective of a novice programmer, a string of characters bashed out by a mon
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PAUSE: Finally. Raving Rabbids in BDSM as French art toys.
French toy retail Artoyz opened their new exhibition yesterday dedicated to Raving Rabbids of, well, Raving Rabbids fame. Geek Art has more photos.
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The Silent Era: Are games more expressive when the hero isn’t yapping?
Silent protagonists such as Link from The Legend of Zelda are often seen as stubborn holdouts from the primitive days of videogamesChaplinesque mimes who’d be better suited for a silent film than modern media. But as described by John Lahr at Culture Desk, silence can be golden. The success of “T
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Surprise, surprise. Our brains work a lot like Whack-A-Mole.
What is the best analogy for the way our brains work? Perhaps it is videogames. In an interview on the topic of free will, Michael S. Gazzaniga, author of Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain, describes consciousness, or the state of being aware of one thing or another, as a well
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NYT explores the human cost of the iPad in China. Prepare to feel guilty.
Apple is under fire again, this time at the hands of the NY Times who published their second report on work conditions in Apple’s China factories. Read the piece for the entire breakdown of FoxConn’s conditions, sloganeering like “”Work hard on the job today or work hard to find a job tomorrow,” and
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Spotify CEO’s first videogame predicted his future as an entrepreneur.
Forbes has a wonderful profile of Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek. Aside from outlining Spotify’s rise to greatness and more than 2.5 million members, the piece outlines a telling tidbit from Ek’s adolescence: At 14 Ek latched onto the late-1990s dot-com mania, making commercial websites in his school’s com