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Writing biography is hard. Basically, you have to learn about every single part of a person’s life and then filter out the boring stuff, which must be maddening. In a recent interview with The Millions, Scott Donaldson, who’s written biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Earnest Hemingway and Winfield
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We’re sad to report that Steve Kordek, the inventor of the two-flipper pinball machine, died last Saturday at the age of 100. He will be missed. Time reports: In an interview with the New York Times, Pinball author Roger Sharpe says the two-flipper design was only part of Kordek’s revolutionary cont
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Here’s the rest of today’s news: – Sega released a teaser suggesting that Jet Grind Radio is coming to Xbox Live Arcade and Sony Entertainment Network at some point. – SEN is going down for scheduled maintenance next week. – Blizzard may be working on a free-to-play game, Everquest is going free-
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Good morning, sports racers. Here’s just some of the latest in the larger gaming world. -The Playstation Network will be down for a bit on March 1 due to scheduled maintenance—not because of hackers or anything ominous. -The Indie Royale Alpha Collection is now available for download. -PixelFoundry,
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How will the nation’s wealth be divvied up 50 years from now? If videogames are to be believed (which, for obvious reasons, they shouldn’t, although Madden did pick the Giants to win the Super Bowl by a margin of threejust sayin’), the division will be more drastic in the future than it is today.
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Think about all the terrible movies you’ve ever watched…it’s probably a pretty long list. All frustrated consumers, rejoice: a new system by UK based company Myndplay has developed a system of software and an EEG-based headset that allows movie viewers to control specially developed films. With thei
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Illustrator Shilo Shiv Suleman is worried that technology is prevented the youth to dream, so she made an iPad storybook called Khoya to restore what’s been lost: “In the last 10 years, children have been locked inside their rooms, glued to their PCs. … But now with mobile technology, we can actuall
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In upcoming documentary Side By Side, Keanu Reeves sits down with some of the most important directors working now to discuss technology’s effect on the film industry’s evolution. Discussing the death of film, the transition into digital, the 3D craze and the proliferation of digital filmmaking, Ci
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Now that’s a hand-crafted table. – Adnan Agha
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As we often find in gaming, some of the most successful television titles feature leading male figures. Caught within a certain world and predicament, everything within the narrative seems to change and evolve…except for themselves. The Atlantic published an essay yesterday on this current phenomen
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You finish that game or so help me I will turn this car around! Here’s the news: – The Last Guardian team is getting the help of the God of War guys to help finish their game. I’m not sure how to feel about this. – The PS4 is rumored to be using an AMD graphics card. Just like the Nextbox. – Indie d
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While there may be few that would argue Transformers 3 was a great movie, a couple new videos out of visual effect studios ILM and Digital Domain featured at Slashfilm dissect a few action sequences and show the amount of work that was put in to every shot. Watching every individual layer stripped o