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Kickstarter of the Day: Participate in a Victorian seance in "Dust & Shadows".
Set against the backdrop of a Victorian seance, “Dust & Shadows” is a strange blend of theater and gaming. Dust & Shadows is part of the Unorthodox Arts foundation’s current initiative, ‘Project Gamestage,’ which seeks to take theater off the stage and video games from behind a screen. The shows th
You’re supposed to Google the answer to these puzzles
Google’s daily puzzle challenge is a great way of improving your search skills and learn something new. The riddles aren’t too challenging so they’re a nice break, but don’t threaten to spiral into timesuck of similar sites and games. – Adnan Agha [Google via Wired]
TED asks "What videogame shifted your perspective?"
TED’s new Conversations section has already sparked some great talk, debate and even personal recollections of videogames that have reshaped people’s perspectives. The list ranges between Final Fantasy VII, Ocarina of Time, Smash Bros, Bioshock and more. The anecdotes of experience and effect beauti
Who actually owns the games we purchase on Steam?
News late last year of things like a potential widespread Steam hack and a frustrating Skyrim “patch” that just seemed create phony DRM for PC gamers gave rise to some suspicion of Valve’s innovative and ubiquitous platform. Rock, Paper, Shotgun takes this concern one step further in an alarming and
CHEAT SHEET 2/1/12: Kazuo Hirai’s promotion, THQ’s troubles and a new Humble Bundle with an added bonus
Back to work! Let’s check in with today’s mainstream gaming news! – Kazuo Hirai will soon replace Howard Stringer as Sony’s CEO and President. – THQ has been having some serious financial troubles which have led to massive layoffs and potentially being removed from NASDAQ. – The next Humble Indie bu
A 100 year old woman appreciates how the Nintendo DS keeps her mind active.
We tend to associate old people with, well, old games. But one woman had a different idea for how to settle into the triple digits: Kit, who turned 100 last week, only started playing video games at the age of 96, but she now relies on her DS console to keep her mind active. “The Nintendo has been a
What does fan fiction have in common with improv? Joyful play!
Lev Grossman at TIME has a deep look into the world of fan fiction, a place where fans act as authors and take their favorite characters from film, television, and beyond to new narrative environments: Fan-fiction writers aren’t plagiarists who can’t come up with their own ideas, and they’re not all
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