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video “It’s better than Plato’s Allegory of the Cave,” Double Fine’s Tim Schafer said of his company’s newest game, The Cave. “Actually it’s better than Plato.” Would that it were so. The Cave, which is designed by Monkey Isalnd creator Ron Gilbert and was just announced by SEGA for release in earl
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Josh Trank has just been hired to direct the upcoming film adaptation of Fumito Ueda’s Shadow of the Colossus. Trank’s made his directorial debut earlier this year with Chronicle, a brooding look at what would happen if a group of alienated teenagers actually got super powers. Hint: they didn’t try
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The idea of measurable IQs is taken-for-granted these days, but an emerging body of research is shedding new light on different kinds of intelligence a person can have. Dylan Evans studies “risk quotient” intelligence, a way of thinking about probabilities that, it turns out, most people are exceedi
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Nobody loves XCOM anymore. The game was once talked about with reverent nostalgia, either one of the best games ever made, or literally, the best. As is often the case with videogame claim-making, the impassioned words meant very little. The conclusion is clear enough but the logic behind it seems a
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Today, Egyptians voted in their first presidential election since the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. The videogame world celebrated with these breaking stories: -U.S. judge recommends ban on Xbox 360 sales in North America. -Final Wii U development kits out in the world, “at least as good” as the PS3
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video It shouldn’t be an insult to call something stupid. We’re all stupid when put in contexts we don’t connect with. What gives away a person’s true character is not their relative intelligence but the manner in which they deal with their implicit stupidity. To wit, the recently released trailer
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Baseball is about suffering. For every proud Yankee fan there is a legion of defeated Brewers loyalists waiting in the dimly-lit sports bars masochistically hoping the next pitch won’t lead to failure. When it does, the heartbroken fan generates an instant nostalgia for those hopeful few seconds bef
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video If one game’s sequel rut is another’s sequel groove, Lost Planet 3 offers evidence that Capcom is trying to get back in rhythm with the derailed bug shooter. In a wave of new demos of the game in the run-up to E3, the publisher is trying to throw out the parts that didn’t work in the first two
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A month ago a group of three friends decided to turn their passion for the Fallout series into a live action web show. The result was Fallout: Nuka, a series of YouTube shorts that invented a whole new storyline in the Fallout universe when a new Vault Dweller stumbles out into the wasteland in sear
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video In honor of yesterday’s release of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, the good folks of Machinima have released a video showing the techno-war simulator reborn with LEGO toys. The addition of LEGOs does for gunplay what Mario Kart did for racing, and the switch to cartoonish cuteness actually seems
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It’s all fun and games until someone falls into a liquidity trap. As the American presidential election intensifies around the debate over how to lower unemployment and save the economy, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is offering players a chance to experience firsthand just how difficult
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While the trial between Too Human developer Silicon Knights and Unreal Engine house Epic Games is just getting underway, a North Carolina judge ruled that the value of the damages at issue will be limited to $1 per claim. The case was originally filed in 2007. Silicon Knights had licensed Unreal En