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Yes it’s still in production. No, no one knows why. But now Adam Sandler has signed on to the project, and it’s left Universal and been picked up by Columbia. It’s got a few decent names attached to it (Kevin Lima of Enchanted is directing, and Robert Smigel and Etan Cohen have given the script rewr
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The new Tumblr virtualgeographic has a gallery of landscape photos taken in the style of Ansel Adams, probably with a little bit of help from good ol’ Instagram. On a related note, is the ease with which Instagram makes taking vintage-y looking photos ruining photography? Or democratizing it? All I
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Jesse Kuhn is bringing his artwork to life in The Departure, a mobile game based on one of his illustrations. Granted, beautiful artwork doesn’t guarantee a great game, but with a simple design and singular charm, this one definitely has promise. He’s got some great incentives to give on his Kicksta
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We’ve curated a section of the February issue of Popular Science, focusing on the future of fun, which games are on the cutting edge of everything, and what even counts as a “game” these days anyways. Today, Felipe Salgado discusses the best games you can find on your web browser. While big-budget g
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Now that is one crossover episode I’m dying to see. Maybe next Halloween? – Adnan Agha
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Before Game of Thrones came out last year, the series faced a great challenge in trying to introduce new viewers while pleasing hardcore fans. The same struggle applies to most if not all successful franchises and remakes within the games industry. The way that Campfire, the show’s marketing team, g
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We just stumbled upon this, but The Cult of LEGO by John Baichtal and Joe Meno was released this past November and seems right up our alley. The book provides both a history and commentary on the ubiquitous LEGO bricks. Read a review of it here. Here’s a taste from the publisher: The Cult of LEGO in
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Color is a web game that serves as a lightweight primer on color theory. The only mechanic is clicking in a color wheel to match the given color(s). Despite being extremely straightforward, the game’s demand for precision makes it addictive, catering to the art kid in me. With such a simple mechanic
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February 3 saw the wide release of Chronicle, a faux-documentary (in the vein of J.J. Abrams’s Cloverfield) style blockbuster following the story of high schoolers suddenly endowed with super powers. What is maybe most exciting about the big budget project is that the director is a 26-year-old firs
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In Final Fantasy XIII-2, your party traverses the expanse of time and space through a plot device called the “Historia Crux,” which more or less looks like a map that you can jump from time period to time period and dimension to dimension. It’s all very heady, metaphysical stuff that makes no sense
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Razer’s Project Fiona is a PC that looks, in its current incarnation, like the love child of an iPad and a Playstation Move-with maybe a dash of PSP thrown in. As a prototype, it has a long way to go, but it’s following current trends to bring portability and motion controls to games you’d normally
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Game arcades as social spaces have undergone reinvention, rebirth and resurgence. In Tokyo, it seems that arcades have found a new demographic: seniors. Once the preserve of rowdy teenagers, game arcades in Japan are rapidly becoming the hippest place to hang out for a whole new generation — their g