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Is Windows 8 going to keep PC gaming alive, or is it the final nail in the coffin?
The future financial prospects for personal computing haven’t looked so hot in recent months, but the recent launch of Windows 8 raises another concern entirely: forget about assessing the PC from a business perspective, does it even work from a design perspective anymore? Reactions to the new Windo
Morning Cheat Sheet 3/1: Blizzard’s layoffs, a new Baldur’s Gate, and Sega’s new CCO.
And now that the leap day is over, we can all get back to work, cause come on, it’s a real day again guys. – Blizzard cut 600 jobs and though the vast majority of them had nothing to do with game development, that’s still sad news to hear. – There may be a new Baldur’s Gate game in the works. A teas
Kickstarter of the Day: Farmageddon is your other favorite farming relating title.
Phil Kilcrease spotted the lack of farming games on the market and decided to make his own. The board game community on Kickstarter is really vibrant! -Jamin Warren
How can museums make better games? A British smuggling title before the Opium War suggests yes.
Danny Birchall and Martha Henson of the Wellcome Trust have a little post-mortem on their game High Tea which had me intrigued just from its description: It takes the form of a strategy or trading game in which the player adopts the rôle of a nineteenth century British smuggler active in the Pearl D
OPENING ACT: Are we more honest on Xbox Live than we are in our actual lives?
For anyone who’s encountered those bands of roving teenagers on Xbox Live, you know that unique blend of disgust & amazement that comes from hearing the ugly little things that come out of their mouths. Over at ReadWriteWeb, Alecia Eler tries to divine an answer for why we speak more freely on socia
The year of 2011 in games…and in Legos.
As if Lego Minecraft wasn’t enough, this lovely little Lego stop-motion montage of games of 2011 was built by Alex Dobbs for this past year’s AIAS Awards. -Jamin Warren
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