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FundVille: New York Times columnist makes a Facebook game for change
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times is working on a new Facebook game that does some good for once. Players will be able to buy virtual goods in the game with real currency that will then go to NGOs and aid organizations around the world. Burak said that players will also be able to contribute to
Writer’s Guild reveals nominees for 2011’s best writing in videogames.
The Writer’s Guild of America is a somewhat elusive entity to those unfamiliar with the entertainment industry, although you may recall the 2007-2008 WGA-lead writers’ strike that left us watching terrible movies and TV for two or so years after. (Remember Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?) But f
PAUSE: Arcade icon Pac-Man shows up in NYC street art.
This arcade-inspired urban art is a project of Woodward Gallery in Manhattan, who also deals in limited edition prints of New York pop artists such as Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol. [Rhisome] -Jason Johnson
Interactive Kinect puppets create an interactive playground for children.
Since the relatively lukewarm introduction of Microsoft’s Kinect into the gaming community, the motion camera’s most interesting projects have arguably been user-made hacks that have nothing to do with Xbox games at all. And of those hacks, this is arguably one of the coolest. Design I/O have desig
Studies show that brains of videogame and web addicts function similarly to those of drug addicts.
A Chinese study reveals that individuals addicted to the web have similar brain scans to drug abusers and other addicts. Moreover, these scans correlate with British scientists’ findings on those addicted to videogames. Special MRI scans revealed that white matter in the brains of web addicts, speci
This app will do your laundry. Could it also gamify housekeeping?
So the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is this week, and a lot of new and impressive types of interactive technology have been wowing techies the world over. While many developers did their best to impress with all sorts TVs and gaming gadgets, a humbler app inadvertently stole the show: Though Sam
Before starring in Heavy Rain’s predecessor, David Bowie had fans too.
This response to his first fan-mail written by an American, dated 1967, proves it. I’ve been waiting for some reaction to the album from American listeners. There were reviews in Billboard and Cash Box, but they were by professional critics and they rarely reflect the opinions of the public. The cri
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