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With provocative games like No More Heroes and Lollipop Chainsaw, Goichi Suda has been likened to a punk and an exploitation artist. But Michael Thomsen argues that his surreal oeuvre resists easy characterizations and must be likened to nonsense.
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Behind the open-world fantasy of Dragon’s Dogma is a system that guarantees progress, but whose definition of progress are we using? Michael Thomsen reviews Capcom’s latest role-playing game.
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A list of interactive grant recipients from the Danish government has outed Limbo developer Playdead’s next game. Code-named Project 2, the list describes the game as taking place in a 3D world but with 2D gameplay. The game will tell the story of a lone boy’s fight against an evil group that are tr
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video The idea of 3D printing objects has prompted a lot of utopian daydreaming, but it’s also led a host of eager novices to realize they’re actually lousy 3D designers. Tinkercad is a web-based 3D design tool built to make designing objects a simple and communal activity. Speaking in an interview
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Many videogame fans are used to the government trying to regulate their hobby, but the Obama administration appears to be embracing the form. Speaking at the Games for Health conference in Boston, Constance Steinkuehler Squire, a policy advisor for the White House Office of Science and Technology Po
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Get a helmet, there’s a big storm of game news coming. –The Dark Knight Rises gets a mobile game. –Journey‘s Thatgamecompany raises $5.5 million to help develop next game. -Microsoft drops support for Gamescom and Tokyo Game Show. -Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata admits the company almost abandoned Wii U co
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Epic Games has created a new studio, Epic Baltimore, largely staffed by former Big Huge Games employees. Interviewed in a story for Eurogamer, Epic’s Mark Rein explains how Epic responded after hearing news of the studios demise. “Mike [Capps, President of Epic] is the total hero there. They called
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Yesterday Blizzard finally launched the real money Auction House for Diablo III, an event the company had delayed a number of times, in part, to address issues with hacked accounts and people using improper gold farming techniques. While Blizzard continues to wrestle with these issues, the Auction H
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Must women protagonists be role models before they’re seen as individual human characters? Writing for Think Progress, Alyssa Rosenberg considers the challenges of portraying women heroes in pop culture. “First, members of a minority group, or of a group like women that are a majority but are poorly
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Travel to other distant planets is a central conceit for many videogames, from Star Fox to Halo to EVE Online. Being in an alien world gives developers an easy excuse for tweaking the laws of physics for the sake of fun and drama. But just how plausible is the idea of reaching another solar system?
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For years players have created a roughshod kind of cinema using the games Halo and Splinter Cell, but rarely have professional filmmakers thought to use game design tools for their films. Shane Acker, who directed the Tim Burton-produced 9, aims to change that. He’ll partner with partner with Valve
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The creation of fear in a videogame is an inexact science but there’s evidence to suggest a neurological mechanism can influence it in some important ways. Writing for Gamasutra, Maral Tajerian, a neuroscientist at Thwackel Consulting, explains the role mirror neurons play in connecting players to t