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Want to know why game publishers don’t like taking risks? Ask John Carter.
As a fan of games, you probably wonder “Why don’t big publishers like to take risks with new properties?” A look at this year’s titles certainly bears that out — Halo 4, Borderlands 2, Diablo III. These are all retreads of reliable winners, but there’s nothing new on the horizon. At this year’s DICE
Global Gaming Project: In which Polish kids kick around a stuffed sack named "Sophia".
Video Our march to find the world’s best games continues! The world is full of seemingly arbitrary rules. Why do we take off our shoes for security screening in the airport? Why can’t we use our hands in soccer? And why can’t I walk left in Super Mario Bros.? There’s a game from Poland called “Zosk
First Watson conquered Jeopardy. Now Dr. Fill is out to kill crosswords.
Is nothing sacred? We all witnessed mankind’s defeat to the device known as Watson on our beloved Jeopardy!. Then there was Deep Blue’s crushing blow to chessmaster Garry Kasparov’s spirits. Now there’s Dr. Fill, according to the NY Times. Created by an AI guru and Oxford Ph.D holder, Dr. Fill can c
Is there value in replaying games that you’ve finished?
Author Helen DeWitt was asked by a journalist about books that she’s re-read during her lifespan. What ensued was a 5000 word list of her favorites — but more notably, she outlines how that book had changed from her initial read to her subsequent re-read (or rerereread as it were). She explains: Rer
This program will make all your games. Now what?
In his review of the new indie sensation Journey, Jamin Warren lamented the fact that many game developers now mistake “artistic value with realism,” thrust as they are with new technologies into an “artistic arms race to see who can stuff the most polygons on the screen, the most feathers on a bird
Vehement response to Mass Effect 3’s ending shows the changing, more protest-happy face of gamers.
The countless unexpected variables—the unprecedented furor, surprising governmental responsiveness, and overpowering community solidarity—of the SOPA/PIPA protests led many political analysts to conclude that the internet had now official become a force to be reckoned with. Though it’s hard to draw
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