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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
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
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