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Op-Ed: Chris Brown, Rihanna and Tomb Raider
Yesterday, Rihanna and Chris Brown released two songs that they made together, effectively ending any public ill will that existed between the two following Brown’s brutal assault upon Rihanna, his then-girlfriend. Objectively, they are not very good. To take a further objective standpoint, these tw
Wait, the Sony Kinect? [Head explode]
Shouts out to Kotaku for catching that Sony has patented some motion-sensing technology that is explicitly similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect: The patent is for a “USER-DRIVEN THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE GAMING ENVIRONMENT”, which would involve plugging a camera into a PlayStation and using it to
Morning Cheat Sheet 2/22/12: Simpsons, Doctor Who, Supernatural online MMOs, and the "Persona" fighting game.
Good morning! Here’s the newest in gaming. -There’s going to be a free-to-play Simpsons game. -There’s a full trailer out for the new Doctor Who game adaptation. -Supernatural MMO The Secret World has been delayed till June 19. –The Last Guardian continues development with some help from the west. -
Who are we, or who do we become, when we play games?
Videogames offer an unprecedented ability for their players to assume unique guises and forms of identity often unavailable anywhere else in life. But how do we separate ourselves as players of games from the beings we become in games? Gamasutra’s Tony Venice has a fascinating study of the question:
California spent a whole lot of money trying to keep its kids away from violent videogames.
Remember the huge and ultimately inconsequential legal effort over limiting the sale of violent videogames in California? Lawmakers in the Sunshine State certainly do: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown, governor and attorney general at the time, supported appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court des
Cheat Sheet 2/21: Sony’s Kinect, Black Ops 2, and Tim Schafer’s a happy camper
Back from the long weekend, here’s today’s big news. – A recently published patent has revealed that Sony may working on their own version of the Kinect. – French games site Gameblog noticed that Activision let slip that this year’s Call of Duty would be Black Ops 2. They were not happy about it. –
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