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Southern Rap Map #5: Pill
In today’s installment of the Rap Map, we chat with Pill, the Atlanta trap-rapper signed to Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group, discussing his favorite games, what a Pill videogame might look like, and he divulges that Rick Ross owns an Atari. Seriously. Pill, are you a gamer? Yeah, I game here and the
Count down to Christmas with 25 holiday themed mini-games.
Remember that calendar you made in elementary school to count down the days until Christmas? Well, kirkjerk.com has dedicated to posting one Yule-themed mini-game a day to help you relive those childhood memories. It’s a fine way to get in the spirit, in case seeing It’s A Wonderful Life on network
Outside the (X) box: Can brain-scans account for our understanding of art?
How do videogames change from things that we generally think of as distractions and become something closer to film, music, or poetry? One view is that we expand the definition of art, so that it includes disciplines like the sciences. However, as the Heideggerian opinion of Alva Noë, a philosopher
PAUSE: Turn your N64 into a handheld console.
I can’t speak to how well this newfound form for Nintendo’s classic gaming console works, or how ergonomic the whole “handheld” component might prove to be, but the good folks over at slightlywarped.com have found an interesting way to resolve the compatibility issues older gamers wrestle with. So i
Beautiful distances: A map of population density is part Dwarf Fortress, part Civilization.
The data visualization firm Fantom have managed to turn the dull (well, at least to most) topic of population density into a visually interesting map. Continents are made up of dots corresponding to population density. The eastern seaboard is filled with tiny bright balls each representing a dense p
Can gaming turn you into a war criminal?
The International Committee of the Red Cross is considering whether or not the same standards that apply to war crimes should be applicable in games. The logic behind this investigation isn’t to punish gamers, but instead to ask whether or not gaming desensitizes people to violence in a way that mig
Skyrim’s strange food fetish continues in these cheesy videos.
Not fond of goat cheese? Neither is YouTube user STuKKie86, who instead of eating it, used thousands of wheels of cheese and other foul-tasting foodstuff to test the boundaries of Skyrim’s physics system, turning unused inventory into a piece of performance art. Why is it that the only thing that in
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