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Scrabble: Big and Tall Edition
In need of a ginormous Scrabble board? As in, bigger than an average-sized man. Because, who isn’t, right? Well, here it is… The only possible justification for owning this thing is that, your hands are too big for normal-sized wooden tiles? You are given to sudden growth spurts, such as Alice in Al
New research shows that even if you’re playing active games, you’re still not getting much exercise from them.
Videogames, it is often said, are a “lean-forward” medium compared to other screen-based activities. Like music, games inspire movement and a kinesthetic attentiveness you don’t usually experience during the latest episode of Downton Abbey. And keeping your hands busy leaves less of an opportunity t
The art of drinking while playing videogames, Skyrim edition.
The guy over at Video Games and Booze, the only blog (that I know of) that specializes in “the art of pairing video games with booze” recently took to matching an alcholic beverage to Nordic role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Here’s what he had to say: fantasy games are among the easiest
How much of a sci fi buff is Newt Gingrich, and what does science fiction tell us about the GOP?
Even among the irascible and often insane candor of this campaign’s Republican presidential primaries, it was odd to hear Newt Gingrich take advantage of his short-lived frontrunner status to make an outlandish campaign promise to people the moon with American settlers in less than a decade. Gingric
The Indie Talks: We chat with the creators of Prom Week about their high school love lives.
The Independent Games Festival finalist Prom Week is a simulation like few others. In SimCity, you are responsible for keeping traffic flowing and decreasing smog. The Sims is as much about taking pee breaks as it is about pursuing your life dream. But Prom Week cuts through the clutter and gets to
The Smithsonian is bringing games into the fold of art.
One of the things that has always seemed to hold games back from becoming a rarified “art form,” to use that sticky term, is their long-time absence from the institutionalization of gallery and museum life. Recent developments in everything from the Louvre’s interactivity to the GDC’s own retrospect
PAUSE: These Mario-inspired roomba covers make every man’s home his mushroom kingdom.
The people over at iam8bit productions have been making beautiful artistic depictions of videogames for a while now, but this has to be one of my favorite ones: roomba covers modelled off of classic mario characters. This is probably the greatest thing that’s happened to robot-assisted housecleaning
Morning Cheat Sheet 2/29: Double Fine heads talking adventure games, Minecraft modding, and Bethesda’s next gen
Here’s the news for today: – Double Fine’s Tim Schafer has posted an awesome 35 minute long conversation between himself and his interviewee, adventure game guru Ron Gilbert. – Minecraft will soon be getting modding support. – Bethesda is hiring for a game for “future-generation consoles.” – Sega ha
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