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Police officer plays out every gamer’s nightmare IRL.
You know what can be the worst? When you’ve lost your perspective in a game and can’t maneuver you/the camera out of your weird quagmire where you’re accidentally running into a wall because you can’t figure out how to swing the camera and then all of a sudden you just get straight SHOT. Maybe that’
PAUSE: Are three lines of a Commodore 64 code enough to inspire poetry?
At Pace Digital Gallery this month, the new show Codings aims to show the computer as “an aesthetic, programmed device that computes on characters” on par with poetry. The curators explain: A three-line version of this program appeared in original 1982 _Commodore 64 User’s Guide:_ 10 PRINT “{CLR/HOM
How the Weinstein’s rating fight might mean a lot for games.
Bully is a documentary from The Weinstein Company on bullying coming out later this year. Recently, the MPAA gave the film an R rating which was appealed by the Weinsteins and after losing, they threatened to leave the MPAA. The crux of the Weinstein’s argument, as highlighted in the article on Slas
PAUSE: A quote from Albert Einstein says everything we couldn’t about writing about games.
Our friends over at Mr. Gif devised this simple illustration from a quote from the great Dr. Einstein. As a writer about games, I worry that we value encyclopedic knowledge about what games are what rather than what games are. -Jamin Warren [via Mr. Gif]
The Indie Talks: An indie Dream Team goes for gold in fishing Ridiculous Fishing.
It’s never a good idea to have too many cooks in the kitchen. Just ask the Miami Heat, or the Wu-Tang Clan. Okay, admittedly, those two examples make it sound perfectly rad. In fact, so does Ridiculous Fishing. When four superstar indies came together to turn a primitive PC game about shooting fish
It’s here. We made Downton Abbey: The Gathering so you didn’t have to.
Trussed-up telenovela Downton Abbey, an Edwardian-set import, has captured this nation’s hearts and imaginations with its savvy combination of icy British subtlety and hot-blooded American-style romance. And much like your average everyday card-based RPG, the show often stages the fall of fiefdoms a
Kickstarter of the Day: A space opera that’s faster than light.
Matthew Davis & artist/designer Justin Ma have taken their talents to build the IGF-nominated Faster Than Light. But now they need your help to finish the project once and for all. They explain: Many games have tackled the goal of recreating the feeling of space operas, but few have focused on the
How important is the public reaction to your art?
I think I might be the only person who genuinely enjoyed Lulu, last year’s Metallica/Lou Reed joint album. Lots of people were upset with how the album was basically a latter-day Lou Reed album with Metallica fucking around in the background, but once you get past your preconceived notions of what t
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