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I’ve always been fascinated by the use of “I” when we talk about our driving habits. “I hit that tree.” “I made a right turn.” “I was speeding.” That conflation of identity and machine is one of the rare instances that an object becomes us. (Playing games, of course, is the other exception.) A new t
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Nice try. [via Kotaku]
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Ever wonder exactly why the creatures in Silent Hill are so revolting or the squishing in Dead Space is so repulsive? A crop of new studies on the science of disgust are bubbling up, according to the Times. Valerie Curtis, a self-described “disgustologist” from the London School of Hygiene and Tropi
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As games shuttle their way towards complete digital distribution, we should remember that there was once (and could be more of) a physical component to the experience. Adam Kirsch’s review of Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books outlines the value that the material object has to its creator
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The New York Public Library has recently digitized the outer space drawings of 19th Century French astronomer and entomologist Etienne Leopold Trouvelot. The collection includes drawings of a variety of celestial bodies, from the planet Jupiter to the Aurora Borealis. While the charm and accuracy of
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A nifty tidbit from the NYT’s long profile of George Lucas and his passion project on the Tuskegee Airmen, “Red Tails.” In it, Brian Curtis outlines the long path that led Lucas to self-fund the action flick where no one else would and his subsequent reflections on life as big-name Hollywood directo
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Who says gamers have no sense of style? -Jason Johnson [Touch Arcade]
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Let’s catch up on this weekend’s mainstream gaming shall we? – Resident Evil 6 has 6 player online co-op. Marketing genius. – Super-hyped MMORPG Guild Wars 2 looks like it got a launch window and a beta arriving soon. – Bioshock Infinite will make a man out of you yet; the new, extra-difficult mode
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One of our wonderful designers, Keenan Cummings, is also the designer for a new startup called Wander. We don’t know what Wander is, but we know what it has: sweet, sweet points. We suspect some type of cosmic farce at work here, but we’re not sure. Points are quite seductive after all and for those
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In the same vein as the FoldIt project that deciphered a difficult AIDS enzyme, a new DARPA-funded military game will apply the same crowdsourcing approach to refine weapons systems: The goal is to create puzzles that are “intuitively understandable by ordinary people” and could be solved on laptops
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Should game designers names go on their title’s boxes? A recent article from The Economist gives perspective on our traditional notions of “authorship” in a work of art: The notion of the artist as the sole creator of a work of art is actually relatively recent. In pre-Renaissance times the artist