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Cheat Sheet 3/21: Mass Effect 3’s ending getting charitable, Skyrim 1.5, and Sim City’s engine
Prepare your eyeballs, tons of video incoming: – The Mass Effect 3 controvery has taken an interesting turn. Fans protesting for a new ending have begun petitioning via charitable donation. – The next Skyrim patch is bringing some of the developments from the internal jam to the people like ranged c
Occupy Wall Street needs a Bowser Revolution.
It’s that time of year again! Occupy Wall Street is back and over 300 protestors were ousted from an attempt to take Union Square Park. As a refresher, OWS was the loose, decentralized organization that claimed Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan for several months, sparking protests around the world.
Computers of the future may flag us by how hard we mash our keyboards.
If you haven’t played Dear Esther, you should. It’s an experiment in story-telling, a ghost story if you will. But you can’t run. Literally. There’s no button for it, so I ended up mashing the forward key very hard as I sauntered. As it turns out, researchers are looking to those intereactions with
PLAY OF THE DAY: Marc Essen’s surrealist Surprise Bullfight is Hemmingway’s nightmare.
In what I am convinced is an ode to The Sun Also Rises,Surprise Bullfight features both surprises and bullfighting. Unsurprisingly, the game comes from the twisted and bizarre talent Mark Essen and adds another strange feather to the hat of the Adult Swim games network.
KICKSTARTER OF THE DAY: An easy way for dungeon masters to make dungeons via a dungeon.
Paul Hughes has been making Dungeons and Dragons art at his blog for years so he wanted to generate a way for others to do so easily as well. The following project ensued: This intricately illustrated 36″ by 24″ playable dungeon map poster encapsulates the Dungeon Master’s Guide’s complete rules for
Videogames come to the war effort in more ways than training simulations.
The use of videogames by the military has long be a subject of criticism and curiosity by journalists and those who view games solely as purveyors of entertainment. Now a new trend seems to be starting for application of games to soldiers’ lives: as a form of therapy for recovering veterans. The Chr
Playing videogames will get you a job (someday).
A few months ago, William Bennet reminded victims of the great recession that chronic unemployment was entirely their fault with the standard charm conservatives like him tend to bring to the issue: “‘Get off the video games five hours a day, get yourself together, get a challenging job and get marr
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