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Can do games in a can of candy.
John Graham-Cunning’s Cansole is a gaming console inside of a candy can. Guilty pleasures unite! Check it out here.
Those illegal videogame gameplay clips on YouTube? A Vancouver company turns them into gold.
A Vancouver company has found an ingenious way to turn illegal uploading of content into a legitimate business for content holders. Companies like EA and the NBA hire Shahrzad Rafati’s company BroadbandTV to replace illegal uploads with legal versions of the same clip. It’s more graceful and profita
June 8, 2011, 3:00 pm
PAUSE: New York x Lego vomit via
Are videogames a path to reflection and self-enlightenment? A reflection on emptiness in games.
Over at the Brainy Gamer, Michael Abbott reflects on how games complicate our visions of personal identity and ask to inquire deeper questions about ourselves. I’ve begun to understand that I value games because they function as meditations on becoming. When I step back and consider what’s in this f
June 8, 2011, 1:00 pm
PAUSE: All Battlefield 3 tanks should be wrapped in pink yarn like this one. [via]
Gaming graphics card or interplanetary research tool? Uni student says both.
Kiwi university student Joe Ling used a $400 graphics card to discover orphan planets in the universe. No word if the card rendered the ghosts of noobs slain in battle.: Without the gaming card it would take hundreds of computers to configure the information and cost thousands of dollars, Mr Ling sa
