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Cheat Sheet 8/5: R3 goes gold, Bungie hints at a crouching Tiger, NBA2K12 trailer features 15 bball legends
Life is hard. Getting mainstream videogame news should be easy. –NBA2K12 trailer features 15 NBA icons. –Resistance 3 has gone gold, and dev company Insomniac Games wants to show you its trailer. –League of Legends offers new map and game mode. -Bungie hints at mysterious new title code-named Ti
Deepak Chopra and THQ want you to relax
Many games offer a spike in blood pressure. But few allow access to a higher plane of existence. Noted spiritualist Deepak Chopra—author of books such as “Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles”—plans to change that. His new game Leela will be published by TH
Mario as a Great American Folk Hero
Jeff Ryan, in an interview with Slate, talks about how Super Mario Brothers established videogames’ first folk hero, and how those games influenced the obsessive nature of pop culture fandom going forward. According to Ryan, “[i]nstead of passively ingesting their entertainment, they study it in min
TF2-inspired student animated short is über-awesome
From four students at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands, here’s Mac ‘n’ Cheese. No, not the delicious kind—the kind that’s an awesome animated short. Inspired by Team Fortress 2 and animated short Meet Buck (and perhaps channeling a little bit of Crank), the project took approximately fi
Cheat Sheet 8/4: Blizzard on the upswing, Square Enix salvages True Crime, Playstation Vita may rival Wii U
Time to get zapped with some mainstream videogame news! -Gearbox has announced Borderlands 2, shared game’s first details and clues. -Activision has previewed its Marvel game lineup at Comic-Con 2011. -Blizzard sales on the rise, but does not plan to release a 2011 title. -Microsoft is preparing f
Are We Merely Players in a Computer Simulation?
Have you been feeling kind of weird today? Well, one reason may be that you’re glitching out. According to Nick Bostrom, philosopher at Oxford University, the chances that you’re a virtual creation living in a computer simulation are surprisingly high: This possibility rests on three developments:
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