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Have board games found their Napster?
The home of internet file-sharing Pirate Bay announced yesterday a new category called “Physibles:” We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasi
Kickstarter of Day: Final Fantasy concept designer’s whimsical robot wonderland
Feric Feng is a Yale-trained, Taiwanese illustrator who worked on The Animatrix and Final Fantasy film. His new project explores the world of Roda, a hapless robot with a league of similarly whimsical robotic friends. He’s trying to make a game and so far, the art looks fantastic. -Jamin Warren
PAUSE: Fashion designer Thom Browne’s new line is part-villain, part-Splicer, part-madness.
Tom says it looks like the Splicers from BioShock. (It’s the hats.) Ryan says its somewhere between The Triplets of Belleville and Team Fortress 2. I just don’t even know what to say about short-pant scion Thom Browne’s new line. [via] [h/t .tiff]
Cheat Sheet 1/24: Microsoft going Point-less, I Am Alive lives and GameStop leaves the UK
It’s that time again boys and girls, time to catch up on the happenings in mainstream gaming. – Microsoft’s abandoning its online currency system (Microsoft Points) in favor of real world money. – Dead Space’s developer, Visceral Games, is working on a new online shooter. – EA is adding 11 publisher
Hands On: An interaction design rant on what our hands mean to the devices we use them for.
Anyone who plays mobile games spends a lot of time thinking about their hands. So does Bret Victor who penned an incredible rant outlining what hands can, should, and will do. He closes his lovely rant on interaction design with a provocative quote: With an entire body at your command, do you serio
Cars as avatars: New speed sensor adds identity to speeders.
I’ve always been fascinated by the use of “I” when we talk about our driving habits. “I hit that tree.” “I made a right turn.” “I was speeding.” That conflation of identity and machine is one of the rare instances that an object becomes us. (Playing games, of course, is the other exception.) A new t
PAUSE: Skyrim on a TI-84 calculator.
Nice try. [via Kotaku]
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