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Can games create shared memory?
That’s what Iran’s hoping for, at least. The Iran National Foundation of Computer Games recently announced four new titles, each concerned with the 1980-‘88 Iran-Iraq war. The games Alvatan Battle, Breaking the Siege of Abadan, Battle of Kheybar and Partisan are on the Iran-Iraq war known as the Sac
Practice your binary skills, play hangman
This video of college kids arguing over their digital hangman game is sort of adorable. They made the thing, too. From the UCLA Game Lab: In this digital form of hangman, players use the five buttons to input letter guesses in binary form (1 = A, 26 = Z) to find the randomly-chosen five-letter word.
November 8, 2011, 12:49 pm
ghostfable: The Pixelated World of Shawn Smith “My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experience nature through technology. When we see images of nature on TV or on a computer screen, we feel that we are seeing n
Can games solve the hunger crisis?
Freerice, an online game that offers players a chance to earn free meals for those in impoverished nations, has launched in China, users a chance to hone their English skills while helping to provide rice to those in need in China and other parts of Asia. “We have always believed in the Internet as
Finding postcard-worthy beauty in game designers’ afterthoughts
Steam Postcards is a Tumblr that posts game screenshots taken by Iain Andrews. Unlike most guys who take screenshots, Andrews isn’t interested in capturing action, characters, or even encapsulating gameplay. Instead, he takes shots of scenery, plaintive moments of quiet, computer-animated beauty. Ch
Like PONG? Live in Germany? Perfect!
Man, have we got the museum exhibit for you! The Computer Game Museum in Berlin is running a special exhibit on Atari’s 1972 classic arcade game PONG, considering the game’s social, political and cultural implications. They say: There is no other phenomenon that compacts the development lines of our
PAUSE: You should really go to Google and type in "do a barrel roll"
Trust us. Shouts out to the intern at CBS who successfully screencapped this, because I tried and failed like a thousand times. (For the record, this is a trope from Star Fox 64 and later 4chan for those of you who don’t know.) -Drew Millard
What did Michael Jackson and Muammar el-Qaddafi have in common?
Besides a predilection towards wearing crazy military uniforms, of course. This is sort of insane, but Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi used to have an amusement park at his compound. The New York Times has the whole sad, surreal story of the the aftermath of his fallout in Libya. -Drew Millard
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