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Let me tell you about midichlorians
Nobody asked how the Force works. Yet George Lucas told us anyway. Knowing it came from organisms called midi-chlorians living in the bloodstream kind of ruined it. This is just another case of too much informationsomething videogames are constantly giving us. In a recent blog post, game critic Sc
Transmedia Manifest gets down to brass tacks of alternate reality
Until now, transmedia has been held to the obscenity test. You know it when you see it, but its hard to come up with a definition. When I interviewed Jim Babb for the Public Play issue, even he had trouble summing it up-and he has helped create several successful transmedia projects! Thankfully, a g
Collector Donates Over 8000 Gaming Magazines to Museum
Kevin Gifford was collecting gaming magazines while most teens his age were collecting magazines on a very different subject. Now Gifford is donating his extensive collection of over 8000 magazines to the Strong Museum’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) in Rochester,
In real-life "choose your own adventure," fictional characters stalk Bostonites
Love the thrill of being stalked, but not the consequences? PerambuLit lets you duck around the corners and into cafes to avoid imaginary stalkers and suspicious stranger. This alternate-reality game turns a tour of downtown Boston into a suspenseful Choose-Your-Own Adventure. Just think of it as an
Wanna see a schematic of the proposed new Wiimote?
If you’re wondering why it looks like that, that’s just the touch-screen capability. This thing’s still in its early stages, so don’t get too excited. Judging from the schematic, here are some other things this could possibly be: Periscope Woodchipper Half an upturned aqueduct Meatgrinder What you’d
PARTY ALERT: New Atari Games at Babycastles
Come celebrate New Atari Games: Innovative Leisure with So Percussion, Calder Quartet, Skeletons, Diamond Terrifier and DJ Andrew WK. You’ll be able to play new games for the Atari 2600 by Sonnie Ray Tempest, Ed Fries and Simon Quernhost. Come play with us!
Game companies receive flabbergasting tax breaks
This is a bit older, but worth revisiting. David Kociewski recently wrote a column for the New York Times focusing on how Electronic Arts used savvy accounting practices to reduce the amount they owe the federal government by millions, by combining the various breaks available to companies in differ
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