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Videogames: They might kill you.
Bitmob has a post detailing something we already knew already: there is stuff in videogames that might kill you. But the list is worth checking out, especially if you didn’t already know to avoid the giants in Skyrim, or that if your avatar encounters a shark in any game ever, you’re probably hosed.
Naughty Dog is out to "change the f***ing industry" this time around.
Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series boasts an expert level of voice acting and dialogue, alongside equally impressive environmental and character artwork bringing the charm of Indiana Jones to PS3. But in a recent talk with Eurogamer, creative director and writer Neil Druckmann said Naughty Dog still has
"Blindside" can’t be seen to be believed.
Aaron Rasmussen and Michael T. Astolfi are developing a game based solely on audio cues. Inspired by personal experience, Blindside is being developed first as a short, forty-five minute episode for the PC and Mac. It’s called BlindSide, and it’s one of the first games to bring a brand new gaming ex
Now you can play the Zelda series in sequential order. Kind of.
That is, if you are Schrodinger’s cat. While the Zelda-verse has widely been speculated on, a new art book officially published by Nintendo, and translated by Kotaku, confirms that the series indeed branches into parallel universes sometime during, or soon after, the events in Ocarina of Time. At th
The year in roguelikes: Was 2011 the best year yet for the dungeon crawl?
Adam Smith of Rock, Paper, Shotgun accounted for his year playing roguelikes, the cultish dungeon-crawling genre that is still going strong 30 years after the original Rogue. Unlike commercial games, rougelikes are tweaked and updated incrementally over many years, so Smith’s end of the year list is
Play your old Super Nintendo games on the SupaBoy
Hope you brought back your old SNES games from the attic over the holidays. Here’s the SupaBoy! Essentially a non-proprietary Super Nintendo, available for $79.99 on internets everywhere. Buy it for your younger sibling and then steal it back from them when they’re not looking. [via] [image]
Audi presents programmable streets.
German auto manufacturer Audi has its sights set on a future filled with interactive LED roadways. Bjark Ingels shares his vision: If I imagine a city in 25 years’ time, the vertical facades appear unchanged, but the roadway has become a digitally programmable surface. Fixed elements such as carriag
PAUSE: Aren’t you a little old to be playing videogames?
This is exactly the way I felt when at the checkout counter with a copy of Alice Madness Returns. [Flavorwire] -Jason Johnson
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