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New World of Warcraft expansion features pandas
Seriously. The new WoW expansion is entitled Mists of Pandaria, and in addition to raising the level cap from 85 to 90, it will include a new race: Pandarens. Warcraft enthusiasts will remember the creatures from Warcraft 3. Wired has an interview with the wonderfully named J. Allen Brack on the ent
The Old Testament is built in Lego pieces, block by block
Brenden Powell Smith has been building Biblical scenes out of Legos and posting them on his website for the past 10 years, and now his illustrations are being collected in a new book titled The Brick Bible. When I first started it I really didn’t think, okay, I’m embarking on this… project to illust
What’s Modern Warfare 3 have to do with Angry Birds?
Our own Jamin Warren spoke on National Public Radio recently about how Modern Warfare 3 creates a more inclusive game. WARREN: Exactly. Exactly. You know, I think what’s interesting here is that this is emblematic of a larger industry shift, which is noticing that these excessive games like “Farmvil
Play Skyrim. Get strong.
Guessing there’s more than one of you who sacrificed your social life this weekend to the benevolent deity that is Skyrim. I had a friend who stayed up until 6am on Friday playing it. No judgments. Anyways, the Skyrim fitness program got kicked off by an editor at PCWorld, who decided he would “earn
Does Modern Warfare 3 ask you to be a bad person?
In a uniformly amazing essay entitled, “The trouble with video games isn’t the violence. It’s that most of the characters are dicks,” British games writer Charlie Booker examines exactly what makes people feel so uncomfortable about violence in games: So we both stop in our tracks, and moustache man
How the iPad is changing football
In his essay “Football”, Chuck Klosterman wrote about the fact that, despite seeming like a conservative flag bearer, football is actually one of the most progressive sports. One example he gives is the NFL’s willingness to try new technology. The latest technlogy impacting the game? Tablets. “Just
PAUSE: What can game designers learn about product placement from this St. Ides commercial?
Besides that awesome lightning bolt effect, we mean. – Drew Millard
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