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Is the act of playing a game political?
Angus Finlayson of the Quietus has an excellent analysis of the role of sexism in the UK dance music scene, culminating in the following quote: Music has political meaning woven into it the moment it is played, whether on a dancefloor or in a bedroom. And every act has political implications – wheth
Play Pippin Barr’s new game about dodging. Lose.
The only things certain in gaming are death and (sales) taxes, so in All’s Well that Ends Well, Pippin Barr just cuts to the chase and presents the player with an essentially untenable situation-you are an object, sometimes an airplane, sometimes a Lego figurine, sometimes a fork, and you have to na
Nom Nom de Plume: Yes, those are Space Invaders waffles designed by a famous French street artist.
The newest solo show from street artist/arcade fetishist Invader at the Outsiders Gallery in London will be Space Invader-themed (and hopefully flavored) waffles. -Jamin [Arrested Motion]
File under future play: An automated phone system that can detect emotions
If only something like this existed in the Nintendo Power hotline days: The system infers emotional states of human emotion based on vocal data. It calculates tone of voice as well as speech patterns to deduce what the emotional state of an individual is and makes decisions on how to proceed based o
Want to know the future of Sony? Look at president CEO Sir Howard Stringer’s recent past.
Sony has had a tough year from the tsunami in Japan that cost the company billions to the spate of hacks of the PlayStation Network to the realities of adapting an 160,000+ employee company to the realities of the the Internet age. As CEO Harold Stringer likely approaches the end of his tenure, acco
In search of real life zombies? One man’s journey to Haiti to find them
An oldie but goodie for our horror fans. Two years ago, Men’s Journal’s Mischa Berlinski traveled to Haiti to separate fact from fiction around the idea of the zombie. The results are riveting: Shortly after that incident, I started taking Creole lessons from a motorcycle-taxi driver named Lucner De
This Kickstarter project will take us one step closer to the gamification of everything
While this Kickstarter project is intended to let common household objects give you notifications over the internet, it is only a matter of time before your washing machine is challenging you to a game of chess. -Jason Johnson
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