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PAUSE: How much does packaging matter?
We interrupt our bite-sized game reportage to report on a national emergency that you probably didn’t realize even existed. Someone made scotch in a can and called it Scottish Spirits. Each can costs five dollars and contains about eight shots of liquor. About ten minutes after the product made its
LET THERE BE ROMS: A new religion finds ecstasy in pirating copyrighted material.
This is a weird one. A group of Swedish copyright pirates have founded Kopimism, a strange new religion that holds copying data as their highest sacrament. Like me, you’re probably thinking, “Is this real?” Yes, it seems to be. The Swedish government recognizes Kopimism as a religion, and the church
The best Apps of 2011 for babysitting your kids.
I don’t know about you, but I simply can’t get enough of Best of the Year lists. I found the New Yorker’s list of best apps of 2011 amusing, not because the games on it were enlightening, but because the premise is this: here are the games that best pacify screaming children. I particularly enjoyed
Mark Twain, game designer?
Rather than make flash cards, Mark Twain measured out an 817-foot boardgame on his front lawn so they could memorize the complete history of the British monarchy. “When you think of Henry III. do you see a great long stretch of straight road? I do; and just at the end where it joins on to Edward I.
How the elderly benefit from regularly playing Bingo.
So your grandparents’ idea of gaming is Sunday night Bingo at the community center? Don’t knock it: This may be important for their mental health. ScienceDaily recently ran an article on how playing Bingo aids those who are aging, particularly individuals with dementia, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s
Play with light using PRISMA 1666.
It makes sense that, in an age of LCDs, we find ourselves able to mold light much like we would clay. Tim Barribeau writes: PRISMA 1666 is an installation named after and inspired by Sir Isaac Newton’s famous experiments in 1666 on the refraction of light through crystals. First exhibited at the Int
PAUSE: It looks like "truth in advertising" has struck again.
Ever notice how old games couldn’t quite match the visual flair of their covers? Mighty God King uses Photoshop to make these old Atari games tell the truth. My personal favorite is the Tim Curry poster. His role in Toonstruck just wasn’t enough. – Josiah Harrist [news and image via Mighty God King]
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