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Cheat Sheet 2/15: Sony’s Vita plans, Dear Esther’s future, and The Walking Dead game
Aaand we’re back! Here’s the rest of today’s gaming news. – Sony’s got some really high hopes for their upcoming handheld. – Huge indie darling Dear Esther, a Half-Life 2 that was an IGF finalist, released on Steam for PC yesterday and there is also a Mac port in the works. – The game version of The
A new archive hopes to not only curate games, but writing about games as well.
A lot of press has been given to the steadily increasing growth in the archival presence of videogames and they begin to enter the phase in their history where people realize that they actually deserve a physical history. Now curators at the British Library have taken a new path: creating a digital
The new Mass Effect 3 trailer shows strong roots in political theater.
Last week, Drew and I had the pleasure of attending an EA spotlight event in New York City, an event which simultaneously fed the teaser-hungry Mass Effect 3 fan in me and aggravated me because the embargo stopped me from talking about any of these same teasers for far too long. Chief among this was
A deep look at the clock asks questions about our well-being and how we play.
Phillip Zambardo lectures on how we spend our time: are we future oriented? Present? Past? He also goes into a detailed discussion of how computers and technology change our perception of time, and what that means for things like technology. Basically, Zimbardo makes a powerful argument that our in
The Amazing Spider Man launches ARG, gives "web slinging" a new meaning.
When Columbia Pictures decided to retool Spider Man for a younger, edgier audience, apparently they had more in mind than putting Spidey back in high school and handing the reins over to a filmmaker older pop culture nerds mostly remember from the Evil Dead. Wired reports that the latest trailer has
An unlikely review of the PlayStation Vita via a burrito.
In all likelihood, you have eaten a Chipotle burrito within the last year. Why shouldn’t you? They’re tasty and cheap-ish and they let you know how many calories you’re taking in. From a corporate standpoint, they’re a success story in an economic era when that sort of thing is increasingly rare. Sl
Videogames now "more creative than reading."
To all the haters out there that still maintain that “gamers don’t think,” videogames have just won over another interesting cultural advocate. The decidedly literary British playwright Lucy Prebble of ENRON and Secret Diary of a Call Girl fame went as far as to call out her own medium in a recent t
Morning Cheat Sheet 2/15/12: Darksiders II, XBOX touchscreens, a new "Twisted Metal" movie and a Palm Beach Gamestop arrest.
If you didn’t read the caption, it’s this morning’s latest gaming news. -The next XBOX might be designed with a touchscreen controller, much like the Wii U. -Darksiders II is slated for release on June 26. -A Palm Beach mom left her child alone in a Gamestop and was arrested for child neglect. -Bria
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