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DJ Shadow reminisces about his childhood in the arcade.
DJ Shadow, the West Coast hip-hop artist best known for his breakthrough album Endtroducing….., but who has fallen off the map ever since, recently spoke with Edge about his favorite videogames. Smash TV was one of the last games I obsessively pumped money into. It was funny because I grew up with a
Sesame Street is finally getting the interactivity children really love.
In its (allegedly) last Consumer Electronics Show presentation ever this week, Microsoft unveiled this gem produced in partnership with the Sesame Workshop, a proposed “two-way television” to create interactive episodes of Sesame Street: A demonstration involved a girl throwing pretend coconuts at a
Game about killing bin Laden lands a game dev a death sentence.
An Iranian-American man has been handed a death sentence in Iran. His crime: developing videogames. Amir Mizra Hekmati made a series of web games in which players killed extremist militants, such as Osama bin Laden. The studio even released a KumaWar episode titled “Assault on Iran,” speculating on
Finally, a TV that lets you talk to it and fling birds.
If the disturbing Black Friday violence that takes place in the United States has taught me anything, it’s that people really love their TVs. Luckily for all Samsung fans (violent or otherwise), the tech giant has come up with a new way to get closer to your TV than you ever could before: A built-in
PAUSE: A Russian missile plant looks a lot like Portal’s Aperture Science.
These wonderful photographs of a Russian missile plant were taken by photographer who snuck in. There are around 50 of these on her site. [Lana Sator] -Jason Johnson
Doll-maker immortalizes the Apple godhead in eerie photo-real plastic.
Want to prove to friends and family that your obsession with Apple has become unhealthy. This incredibly lifelike 12-inch figure of founder Steve Jobs will do the trick. The figure comes dressed in Jobs’ trademark black turtleneck, relax-fit jeans, and New Balance sneakers—all of which can be remove
IGF announces main competition finalists, partnership with XBox Live.
The Independent Games Festival has announced the finalists for its main competition, which will be held on March 7-9th in San Francisco as part of the annual Independent Games Summit. What’s super cool is they’ve signed a multi-year agreement with Xbox Live Arcade to create a new competition, the wi
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