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PAUSE: Rare view of whales and dolphins at play.
Scientists in Hawaii recently caught dolphins and whales playing together off of the coasts of Maui and Kauai and it’s just really amazing. Watch and be in awe. -Lyndsey Edelman [link]
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The Indie Talks: Daniel Benmergui’s Storyteller lets you make webcomics, simply by playing.
The first time I met Daniel Benmerguithe creator of dreamy games such as I Wish I Were the Moon and Today I Diewasn’t when I interviewed him, but the night before. I had been playing a preview build of his IGF finalist game Storyteller before I went to bed. The game has you to arrange pixellated
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Morning Cheat Sheet 2/23/12: "Xenoblade" gets a release date, "Guild Wars" beta, Wii U streaming and Kojima Productions in the West.
Good morning. RPG fans: take a deep breath. –The well-received Xenoblade Chronicles is set for release in the US on April 6. -The Guild Wars 2 beta is available for sign ups … but not for long. -Facebook is opening a new European games division. -Nintendo has plans to take advantage of video streami
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New York taxis find a better alternative to back-seat televisions: tablet games.
For all New Yorkers annoyed by the inexplicable presence of a television in the back of their car whenever they take a cab, help is on the way. The New York Times reports that the Taxi and Limousine Commission is now weighing the option of embedding tablet computers, which can only mean one thing fo
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Cheat Sheet 2/22: Zelda 3DS, the Borderlands 2 trailer, and the next Metal Gear game
Betas and DLC and 3DS games, oh my! – The 3DS is getting Mario Tennis (May 20th), Brain Age and may be getting a Zelda game. – Borderlands 2 is coming September 18 and has a detail-filled trailer too. – The next Metal Gear Solid game (possibly not MGS5) is looking for talent and is planned for cons
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Jeremy Lin succeeds at life, gets a C+ in NBA 2K12.
2K Sports recently updated New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin’s virtual stats in NBA 2K12. It’s a conservative update reflecting the brevity of Lin’s career to date, giving him a 69 overall rating. In case you haven’t heard, Lin recently began kicking ass for the Knicks, and the new videogame st
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Does contemporary neuroscience science fail to recognize free will?
In games as in life, a frequent question we ask ourselves is why we make the choices we do. Though the concept of free will has captivated philosophers and scientists for much of human history, modern psychology and neuroscience has often been deemed the final blow against humanism’s optimistic view
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Lego Minecraft is finally here.
There was some speculation late last year about the possibility of Minecraft legos finding their way to toy stores and eager fans of Notch’s indie hit. The toy has finally gotten a release date, Edge reports: The Minecraft-inspired Lego set will be released this summer for $34.99 / 34.99, but can b
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With all the reunion talk in music, what actually counts as canon and how does that shape games?
If you keep up with the decrepit pageantry and hilariously Gossip Girl-esque drama of classic rock reunions (why wouldn’t you?), you might have heard that due to mitigating circumstances, Black Sabbath’s upcoming reunion tour has been downgraded to “Ozzy and Friends.” Weirdly enough, the “and Friend
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Want to keep scams and clones out of the App Store? Follow the fashion industry.
Software studio Impending has an amazing post of what Apple can be doing to deal with scams and cloners who steal ideas. They list a host of potential fixes but this one caught my eye: Better Education of App Store Customers: Much like the fashion industry, the App Store’s plague of knockoffs create
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PAUSE: This PlayStation Vita ad says everything you never could about why you play games.
Explaining to your friends exactly why you play games can be a tricky proposition, but Dutch agency 180 Amsterdam does so beautifully in this new spot for the PlayStation Vita. The ad is directed by Cary Fukunaga (who won the Sundance Dramatic Directing award for Sin Nombre), and I found the bit on
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Videogames may actually help your eyesight. Phew.
Even if videogames rot your brain, they may still be able to improve your vision. While normally this type of improvement comes from “getting glasses or eye surgery — somehow changing the optics of the eye,” Daphne Bavelier of the University of Rochester in New York states that “action video games t