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PAUSE: Our very own Minecraft Deku tree.
Looking good old buddy. – Adnan Agha [via Reddit]
Thanks to Skyrim, gamers learn about nonviolent protest.
To this day, one key aspect of Deus Ex’s original brilliance still impresses people for its rarity: the fact that you could beat the game without killing a single person! A new piece in the Wall Street Journal suggests that this innovation may finally be becoming a larger trend: Videogames have long
Rap Map #9: Danny Brown
Once again it’s the Rap Map, where we talk to our favorite hip-hop artists about their favorite videogames. Danny Brown’s mixtape XXX was named hip-hop album of the year by SPIN Magazine. Fresh off a tour with Das Racist, Brown spoke with us about his early gaming experiences, how videogames inform
A chance to compose tracks for a new videogame shows that money is indeed still what Paul McCartney wants.
Well into his post-Beatles career, critics and purists have viewed Paul McCartney with varying degrees of suspicion for his particular ability to cash in his musical talent. According to a recent story in Express, he’s once again heading into uncharted territory to give his music a wider audience: T
PAUSE: The future of GameStop should look like Holland’s Selexyz bookstore.
As Amazon continues to subsume the retail industry whole and digital distribution platforms continue their climb, the question of what becomes of physical retailers like GameStop becomes a real question. The used-game giant purchased its way into the retail age by acquiring flash game portal Kongreg
PAUSE: Dime Je’s playing cards make playing Mafia stylish and sleek.
Russian illustrator Dima Je has produced these marvelous cards as accompaniment to popular parlor game Mafia. See the rest of the set here. -Jamin Warren
Are used games killing the industry or saving it?
Rumors beginning last week about all things Xbox 720 (?) have provoked a flurry of speculation and statements about the industry’s stance on used games. Bitmob has a great essay up challenging the assumption that used games are actually costing publishers and developers as much as they claim: I can
What would the dude in Lana Del Rey’s "Video Games" be like?
Hats off to SPIN’s Rob Harvilla, whose 1,300 word opus on Lana Del Rey’s new album Born to Die is the definitive document of the Del Rey Experience. Especially impressive is his breakdown of the goofus Del Rey sings about in her hit “Video Games”: It’s instructive to picture what this guy would act
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