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Want To Play An Automatic RPG Generator?
Need to kill ten minutes? Head over to Boing Boing, where they’ve created a game that assigns you a random story, and then you take your brave pixel out into the world and try to snatch up other pixels and fight against even more pixels. Don’t like the storyline you’ve been given? Just press “refres
Can a virtual currency save our global economy from collapse?
In the wake of one economic disaster after the other, it makes sense that some might seek out an alternative way to buy and sell goods, one unaffected by inflation or the whims of Ben Bernanke. In the latest issue of Technology Review, James Surowiecki explores one such option, the Bitcoin, that is
Cheat Sheet 8/31: Gearbox expects more of Duke Nukem, Leaked THQ footage shows cancelled Avengers game
Have another helping of instant mainstream videogame news! –The Haunted: Hell’s Reach has been picked up by THQ. -Gearbox’s next Duke Nukem game to be better, if it happens. -Former THQ employees have leaked footage and art from a cancelled Avengers game. –Tim Schafer and Cookie Monster return fo
Looking for Yoshi in the Bronx Zoo? You’ll need this.
New York City has been called many things: The City That Never Sleeps, the Big Apple, Gotham. Jesse Eisemann thought it reminded him of another place altogether: The Mushroom Kingdom. Eisemann, writer and illustrator for CollegeHumor.com, has created an interactive map of the five boroughs in the in
US Open Uses Game-Like Statistical Analysis To Make Tennis Even Cooler
One of the reason tennis is so great is how it functions as a game: it’s like chess, but even more nuanced, and you have to be in really, really good shape to do well at it. However, tennis can be hard to follow because to the untrained eye it can just look like two dudes smacking a ball back and fo
Can’t find a minister? This groom programmed his own.
An old standby is getting a 21st century makeover: First comes love, next comes programming a computer to preside over your wedding. Then comes marriage. Having met on Sweet on Geeks, a dating site for the more intellectually enthused, Miguel Hanson and Diana Wesley decided on a virtual minister to
A 60s playtime manifesto for the ages
Above is a scan of the “What Do We Mean By Play?” manifesto from 1964’s Creative Playthings, which we think sums up the importance of play pretty well. Here’s a version of that manifesto in a more legible form: WHAT DO WE MEAN BY PLAY? Play is to create, to discover, to process in half-playful, hal
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