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We’re throwing a party in San Francisco on March 8, with DJ sets from Tim Sweeney of DFA Records and the Beats in Space podcast, and Noel Heroux of Hooray for Earth. We’ll also be crosspollinating with some of New York City’s best new indie and experimental games. Hemisphere Games – Osmos – MULTIPLA
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Over at Slate, Juliet Lapidos described what she learned from catching up with Woody Allen’s entire filmography, the themes that effect every character in the Allen-verse, and the pressure of constant production. If there’s one thing that’s wonderful about bodies of work, it’s seeing the threads tha
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It looks to be a happy Valentine’s Day for almost everyone except Zynga. Here’s this morning’s news: -Obsidian is looking into funding “old school” games through Kickstarter. –Minecraft will not be coming to the Playstation Vita, Resistance definitely will. -The Binary Domain demo is released today
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Time to catch up with this afternoon’s cheat sheet, here’s the rest of today’s news: – Nintendo has added video codec company Mobiclip to their arsenal. – David Jaffe has said that there are “no plans at all” to continue the Twisted Metal franchise after he leaves Eat Sleep Play. – The narrator from
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It looks as though media artist Jayne Vidheecharoen has improved upon the idea behind Bandai’s Tuttuki Bako. Her Portals project allows you to stick your hand in the TV set and manipulate what’s on the screen. What’s more, when the Portal box is connected to the internet, multiple users located all
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The Cat that Got the Milk, a free to play indie game by The Button Experiment, looks like an abstract expressionist painting but gives it some action. Every level looks and feels like a play through of a Mondrian or Kandinsky painting. The 18 levels, movement (up and down), and 15 minutes on averag
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While lots of Apple patents receive plenty of buzz, today’s item has iPhone users and presumably everyone in the modern age particularly excited. The tech behemoth has issued a patent application for a 3D eye-tracking interface that can be used with a variety applications such as digital photography
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One of the reasons we watch sports is to witness the seemingly unreal made manifest — the half-court shot with no time left, the diving catch by an outfielder. This isn’t always easy to pull off in videogames, but titles like Soulcalibur V attempt to do just this by giving players full control over
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One of minds that worked on games like Glow Artisan has launched a new twist on rock, paper, scissors called Hexagonal Rochambeau. While the name sounds complicated, the game play as not. I spent the weekend playing my girlfriend with lovely results and only a couple odd looks from by-standers on t
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It’s been a hectic weekend, folks. Here’s an update on the weekend’s news. -A Japanese Konami office either caught on fire or they forgot to take the cookies out of the oven. -Due to a power outage, Valve (and all Steam clients) were downed temporarily. -Namco Bandai are working on a new Star Trek g
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Given their particular ability to suck away your life with endless loops of gameplay and gear-hunting, many people tend to think of the decision to play a particularly MMO as a lifestyle choice hardcore gamers make not unlike marriage—an allegedly permanent commitment you find yourself increasingly
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One more time, say it with me: Mainstream gaming news. – Blizzard and Valve have finally come to legal blows over the DotA trademark. – Adam Adamowicz, hugely influential artist of Fallout 3 and Skyrim, passed away two days ago. -Frictional Games, makers of Amnesia: The Dark Descent teased their nex