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Heads up gamemakers, Room 237 reveals the benefits of allowing others to reinterpret your work.
In his review of Sundance film Room 237, Slashfilm’s Germain Lussier details how the film serves as a retrospective on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The film portrays several different readings of its source material which range from almost plausible to hysterically absurd. The way the alternative
How and why do we remember places in games the way we do?
Neil Burgess’s TED talk on how the brain processes space is a fascinating look into the machinations of our minds but also treads some familiar ground. Burgess introduces the main component of how the brain processes and remembers space—the hippocampus—and then explains that each individual neuron w
Letting kids play with dots has never looked so cool.
Letting kids play can have some beautiful results. For her exhibit Look Now, See Forever, artist Yayoi Kusama painted an entire room white and handed out dots to all the children who came to see. The results are positively Seussian. -Josiah Harrist [via Flavorwire]
Are MMOs the classrooms of the next generation?
Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown give a good, long look at how people are learning today. Our schools—our playgrounds, classrooms and public forums—have a very real digital reflection. Over at Boing Boing, Thomas and Brown wax: MMOs draw in players from every walk of life, of every age, and acros
PAUSE: The Periodic Table of Controllers
The following is more or less a family tree of controller evolution throughout the years. It’s pretty rad to see these juxtaposed like this; we’ve never really considered the Dreamcast controller’s influence upon the original Xbox controller, but it’s plain as day. And hey, remember the Virtual Boy?
Adam Sandler signs on to the Candy Land movie…
Yes it’s still in production. No, no one knows why. But now Adam Sandler has signed on to the project, and it’s left Universal and been picked up by Columbia. It’s got a few decent names attached to it (Kevin Lima of Enchanted is directing, and Robert Smigel and Etan Cohen have given the script rewr
Skyrim? Ansel Adams? It’s all the same to us.
The new Tumblr virtualgeographic has a gallery of landscape photos taken in the style of Ansel Adams, probably with a little bit of help from good ol’ Instagram. On a related note, is the ease with which Instagram makes taking vintage-y looking photos ruining photography? Or democratizing it? All I
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