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It’s official. Winning games turns you into a jerk.
Finally, some explanations for why I don’t play Call of Duty online. According to researchers, when people win, they don’t take it humbly. It turns them into, well, jerks: “It seems that people have a tendency to stomp down on those they have defeated, to really rub it in,” said Brad Bushman, co-aut
KICKSTARTER OF THE DAY: The Hero Deck is like building the all-star team and playing Alan Turing at home.
The Hero Deck teaches kids how to, well, be heroes through. No better way to get at that than through card-based warfare! See more about the project here. -Jamin Warren
The novel is dead. Long live games?
Roger Kimball, editor and publisher of the New Criterion, has a long, curmudgeonly eulogy for the novel in the Weekly Standard this month. He outlines the cultural conditions and requisites that are needed to keep the novel alive and of course, the internet and “instant gratification” is to blame. (
The Indie Talks: The Snowfield rages from the fire to the ice.
The Snowfield feels like a nightmare. You’re a soldier on a snowy plain that seems to stretch on until infinity. There’s the sleepy, slow crawl with which you move around, between other mute soldiers and a ruined manor with a raging fire. Step away from the fire, and you can feel yourself move just
GLOBAL GAMING PROJECT: We travel to Laos where we learn the right way to throw a shoe.
We love games of all shapes and sizes, and guess what? So does the rest of the world. This is part of a larger project to document a homegrown game from every country in the world. People love throwing things. Especially at other people. The quickest way to earn respect in my elementary school was t
Videogame exhibitions show no signs of slowing down.
Yet another videogame exhibition has popped up. Game Change: Videogames as Art Medium and inspiration, which opened on February 27th runs until April 1st at the Jepson Center, a branch of the Telfair Museums in Savannah Georgia. The approach is a unique contrast to the Smithsonian’s The Art of Video
How The Binding of Isaac joins the ranks of problematic work like "Piss Christ."
Nintendo has yet again solidified it’s a family-friendly image. The game giant recently rejected Edmund McMillen’s The Binding of Isaac for the Nintendo 3DS. “After a long internal debate Nintendo has decided NOT to allow The Binding of Isaac on the 3DS,” McMillen wrote on Twitter. “As many assumed
A "meditative biofeedback system" turns breath into sound.
Jay Vidyarthi, a Masters student at British Columbia’s Simon Fraser University, has developed a system that turns breathing patterns into dynamic soundscapes. The Sonic Cradle is a sensory deprivation chamber that asks users to relax in a suspension swing and influence the creation of sound through
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