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The well-walked paths of our childhood leave a lasting impression on us. This seems true of the virtual spaces we moved through too: A new tumblr blog, Mapstalgia, showcases videogame maps drawn from memory. They range in detail from crude to mathematically exacting, but all show a tenderness for th
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The Independent Games Festival, the videogame equivalent to Sundance, except without all the stars, has recognized 13 innovative games made by students last year. These include a game in which you play as a magic moth (Dust), a game about ballroom dancing in outer space (Once Upon a Spacetime), an i
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Synthpop band New Look shot the new music video to their very ’80s single Nap on the Bow using a Kinect motion-capture camera. The results are startlingly creepy and very cool. It looks better in motion, and the song is kind of catchy. I swear! [YouTube] -Jason Johnson
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It’s tough competing with the supremely cool United States, what with our Hollywood films and sleek videogames. Paramount Chinese leader Hu Jintao has warned his communist party that the proliferation and popularization of American culture, not the American military, was the greatest threat to the
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Simple: get your mom to play Skyrim and record the things she says. Bethesda’s community manager Nick Breckon did just that and the results are amazing. – Lyndsey Edelman [link] [image]
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Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times is working on a new Facebook game that does some good for once. Players will be able to buy virtual goods in the game with real currency that will then go to NGOs and aid organizations around the world. Burak said that players will also be able to contribute to
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The Writer’s Guild of America is a somewhat elusive entity to those unfamiliar with the entertainment industry, although you may recall the 2007-2008 WGA-lead writers’ strike that left us watching terrible movies and TV for two or so years after. (Remember Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?) But f
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In this double review on updated franchises, Jason Johnson writes on how Aliens: Infestation happily conjures the memory of watching his first R-rated movie, while Filipe Salgado suggests that Space Marines conjures nothing at all.
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This arcade-inspired urban art is a project of Woodward Gallery in Manhattan, who also deals in limited edition prints of New York pop artists such as Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol. [Rhisome] -Jason Johnson
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Since the relatively lukewarm introduction of Microsoft’s Kinect into the gaming community, the motion camera’s most interesting projects have arguably been user-made hacks that have nothing to do with Xbox games at all. And of those hacks, this is arguably one of the coolest. Design I/O have desig
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A Chinese study reveals that individuals addicted to the web have similar brain scans to drug abusers and other addicts. Moreover, these scans correlate with British scientists’ findings on those addicted to videogames. Special MRI scans revealed that white matter in the brains of web addicts, speci
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So the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is this week, and a lot of new and impressive types of interactive technology have been wowing techies the world over. While many developers did their best to impress with all sorts TVs and gaming gadgets, a humbler app inadvertently stole the show: Though Sam