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Our favorite tweet from the Super Bowl power outage
It seems so obvious in retrospect.
Jamin Warren
Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
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Dead Space 3’s Fear System is the most horrifying audio you’ll ever not see
The first time I played Dead Space, I couldn’t sleep. I saw Necromorphs crawling on the ceiling above my bed and had to leave a night light on for safety and sanity. The rest of my play sessions were in the middle of the day, where those things couldn’t find me. My terror stemmed from some ineffable
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This is how the light gun for Duck Hunt works
Every child of the Nintendo era was amazed at the wonders of the light gun. You had this plastic weapon; you pointed it at the screen; there was a flash; ducks/people died. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Isaac Clarke said. And magic the light gun was indeed.
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China rethinking ten year ban on videogame consoles
You may not know this, but for the last decade, videogame consoles have been banned in China. That is crazy. But things are looking to change. A source at the Ministry of Culture told China Daily market.” If you are a big fella like Nintendo or Sony or a smaller fella like Valve or OUYA, this is gre
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This Master Chief lamp would make Louis C. Tiffany proud.
It’s unclear who would buy an $840 Master Chief lamp. I can’t imagine that thing looking over me, judging me while I sleep. The Chief sees all, knows all. But Michael McLane spent more than 40 hours putting this fella together.
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The best part of the John McAfee story is where he hid like Solid Snake
If you haven’t read Joshua Davis’ epic profile of software-pioneer-turned-narco-obsessive-turned-alleged-murderer, you should go do that right now. The whole thing is surreal as John McAfee flees the United States to avoid potential litigation then starts his own pharmaceutical lab and then has craz
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Finally, an interactive display to show off your pixel art.
I know you have this problem. You’ve downloaded a piece of wonderful pixel art from, say, Rich Grillotti on the Russian black pixel market. You have guests coming over to open that heady new bottle of red you picked up while in Nice. The evening is prepped to be a wonderful time. Only this precious
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Super Hexagon or Tron Legacy? UI make the call.
Josh Nimoy spent a half year writing software art that became part of Tron: Legacy. He’s since posted a rundown of his process and his work. It’s total eye candy and for the code artists out there, a total sneak peek at the process of one of the most talented creators out there. There was one sectio
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Kevin Bacon and the wrong way to show violence on-screen
David Bianculli is the propreitor of TV Worth Watching and is the tv critic for NPR’s Fresh Air. He was generally pretty pessimistic about the lack of creativity in 2012 and 2013 isn’t off to a better start. While reviewing The Following, a new crime drama starring Kevin Bacon on the trail of a seri
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Touching Obama’s hair and my hope for the future of games
President Obama gave a stirring speech at his Inauguration. Americans seem willing to listen, but will games?
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Happy MLK Day. We’ll see you tomorrow.
Celebrate the life of a great man with friends and family. Normal posting will resume tomorrow.
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Witty street artist turns electrical box into Game Boy
I see what you did there. (Spotted in Nordhausen, Germany.)