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Remember that amazing Dead Island trailer? It won a Golden Lion at Cannes.
Pretty amazing. It was the only videogame piece to win in the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, one of the most prestigious advertising awards show in the world.
PAUSE: Discarded beasts from Shadow of the Colossus released from captivity
[via], h/t Game Set Watch]
Cheat Sheet 6/30: WoW free until level 20, Hideo Kojima imagines a world without videogames
Get ready for excitement: here’s the latest mainstream videogame news roundup! -The former heads of Infinity Ward have finally launched the site for their new studio, Respawn. –World of Warcraft is now free-to-play until level 20. -Why is Activision holding a two-day Call of Duty convention? Becau
First Saudi Arabian multiplatform game a blessing and a curse
Fempop points to something unique coming out the Arab world, but there’s a catch. So the good news is that there’s a videogame from Saudi Arabia which is something of a rarity. The bad news is that it looks a lot like an already-popular American game of almost the same name and who’s latest iteratio
What Clarence Thomas’ dissent in this week’s Supreme Court videogame ruling can tell us about "originalism"
Over at the Atlantic, Garrett Epps takes a closer look at Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent in this week’s landmark violent videogame case ruling can tell us about “originalism,” or at least the limits of it. That point of view attempts to discover the original reading of the Constitution. The whole
Gran Turismo teen is turning professional wheelman
Admittedly this Gran Turismo-to-race car driver story in the Mirror seemed a bit farcical. But we were surprised to learn that 19-year-old Jann Mardenborough, who won a contest over 90,000 over players, is actually in the pipeline to be a real professional driver. In the final challenge Jann took th
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