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James Blake and GLaDOS, together at last. (Sorta.)
Ok, so it’s not really GLaDOS (just a vocal effect), but this track from English dub-crooner James Blake’s new “Enough Thunder” EP sounds exactly like that maniacal robot from the Portal franchise. Given our penchant to read games into everything, this totally caught our eye, er, ear. (As my father
October 17, 2011, 10:00 am
. Download audio file If you recall our SL Jones interview from the other day, we mentioned to him the concept of Kario Mart, which is a game that involves Mario Kart, beer, and, well, we’ll let you fill in the rest. He got such a kick out of the idea that he made a song about it for us. Without fur
Why was Phone Story banned from the iTunes App Store?
In a funny, ironic twist of fate, the game Phone Story is no longer available for iPhones as of last month. The game, which seeks to educate its players on all of the icky, human rights violation-y stuff that goes into the creation of a shiny iPhone, was banned for going against the following criter
Does playing Wolfenstein 3D provide catharsis for young Israelis?
It’s said that in order to make it easy for players to shoot their enemies, you can make them robots, monsters, or Nazis. For young Israelis, the latter was preferable. Tablet’s senior writer provides a fascinating first-hand account of what it was like to play the game with revenge in mind: Killin
Does playing games make you an explorer?
From a Paris Review interview with poet Cathy Park Hong: The frontier is always the border of something, virgin territory where we can build new worlds, remake ourselves; always there’s this obsession with remaking ourselves. So to dream of the frontier is also to desire immortality. But there is no
SOUTHERN RAP MAP #1: SL Jones
Hey guys! Welcome to the Rap Map, where we talk to rappers from every region of the world (North America is the whole world, right? Cool.) about their favorite videogames. We’re starting with the South, and first up, we’ve got SL Jones. SL Jones is a rapper from Little Rock, AK, who in the past has
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