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How should a pro gamer reach the next level?
The contents of this article are not meant to be taken as serious medical advice! Mankind has always been competitive; first for food, then women, then territory, and finally just for fun. Games have codified competition into ritual, but whether it’s pick-up basketball or the Olympics, man’s desire
The man who modernized pinball machines passed away.
We’re sad to report that Steve Kordek, the inventor of the two-flipper pinball machine, died last Saturday at the age of 100. He will be missed. Time reports: In an interview with the New York Times, Pinball author Roger Sharpe says the two-flipper design was only part of Kordek’s revolutionary cont
Cheat Sheet 2/24: Jet Grind Radio coming back, SEN going down, and the free-to-play craze
Here’s the rest of today’s news: – Sega released a teaser suggesting that Jet Grind Radio is coming to Xbox Live Arcade and Sony Entertainment Network at some point. – SEN is going down for scheduled maintenance next week. – Blizzard may be working on a free-to-play game, Everquest is going free-
Morning Cheat Sheet 2/24/12: PSN maintenance, Indie Games up for download, the "Amnesia" sequel and the financially-minded RTS "BlackSpace" gets announced.
Good morning, sports racers. Here’s just some of the latest in the larger gaming world. -The Playstation Network will be down for a bit on March 1 due to scheduled maintenance—not because of hackers or anything ominous. -The Indie Royale Alpha Collection is now available for download. -PixelFoundry,
A conversation with Syndicate’s producer, writer, and art director on the future.
How will the nation’s wealth be divvied up 50 years from now? If videogames are to be believed (which, for obvious reasons, they shouldn’t, although Madden did pick the Giants to win the Super Bowl by a margin of threejust sayin’), the division will be more drastic in the future than it is today.
A new system for movie-goers hands the narrative over to the viewer.
Think about all the terrible movies you’ve ever watched…it’s probably a pretty long list. All frustrated consumers, rejoice: a new system by UK based company Myndplay has developed a system of software and an EEG-based headset that allows movie viewers to control specially developed films. With thei
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