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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
Cheat Sheet 2/14: The next X-COM, Mass Effect 3’s demo, and the Lego Star Wars license
Always I want to be with you and make believe with you and bring you today’s mainstream gaming news! – Goldhawk Interactive, developers of Cold War/Alien strategy game Xenonauts, have promised a true remake of X-COM. – The Mass Effect 3 demo is out today, best Valentine’s Day ever, right? – Lego has
Gamification can still make you lots of money, businesses say.
Whether or not it’s bullshit, gamification is upon us. A recent article in TechCrunch states that with the help of business and entrepreneurial culture realizing that games can be, well, really addicting, fun, and therefore useful in abetting the cause to hawk more stuff at the consumer, “gamificati
Kickstarter of the Day: Play cards, admire artwork by feminists, of feminists.
Feminist Playing Cards is exactly what it sounds like: the traditional deck of cards featuring feminist musicians, illustrated by talented feminist artists. Does it have to get any more complicated than that? –Josiah Harrist [via Kickstarter]
How Arcade Fire’s music video borrows from and trumps games.
Andy Cush of Wired has an interview with Arcade Fire’s collaborator Vincent Morisset, the multimedia artist behind their music videos. Morisset’s recent work, the “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” video blends the online space’s interactivity with the cinematics of film, all packed in to a fi
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