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Study demonstrates people have good social intentions without rules.
So, you fight with your roommates over dirty dishes but your guild in WoW could not be getting along better. Ever wonder how it does so well? Recently, researches at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria have looked at the behaviors of more than 400,000 people who play the online MMO Pardus t
Community rallies to make SOPA protest games.
As the specter of the Stop Online Piracy Act looms on the horizon, threatening our internet sovereignty, many sites are trying to get the message out. Wikipedia had their black out and many tech sites shut down for the day. Ludum Dare, a community devoted to creating games in a limited time frame, l
From the gridiron to the gamepad: How NFL realism makes it into Madden.
A firsthand account of John Madden’s “man cave.” A rumination on the intricacies of sports A.I.. The question, “Are Sports Games Art?” It might be easier to tell you what isn’t in writer Tom Bissell’s investigation into EA’s Madden franchise. But the part that struck a chord with me is that John Mad
I’m speaking at DICE exclusively to argue with G4’s Adam Sessler.
DICE is a games conference in Las Vegas. It is expensive and exclusive, but has yielded some classic talks such as Jesse Schell’s now-legendary future of gamification/points for brushing your teeth talk. I’ll be there to grapple with Adam Sessler of G4 on what writing and talking about games actual
Why the U.S. army wants to build an avatar for every soldier.
The American military’s long and much-discussed use of videogames for training, public relations, and (arguably) recruitment strategies have reached a new level of immersive virtualization, Wired reports: “You design an avatar that has the individual facial features of a soldier,” James Blake, the A
This music video says: Unhand my princess, you foul wyrm!
Role-playing game tropes have ventured onto hipper ground, thanks to Troll Slayer by the Jullien Brothers, a music video that retells the classic videogame story of boy meets girl, monster steals girl, boy kills a bunch of skeletons and hairy beasts. One scene gave me a flashback of my sadistic tort
Is the PC on its deathbed?
The PC’s position at the foreground of game development has been in question for some time now, as legends of game development such as John Carmack even admit that they’re no longer the “leading platform for games.” A recent post from Business Insider makes the situation look even more dire. PCs, t
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