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June 6, 2011, 3:00 pm
PAUSE: Vectral tennis.
What happens when you map more than 11 million player deaths in Just Cause 2? Beauty!
Jim Blackhurst works at Square Enix and collects data and metrics for player behavior. The above video is a creation he rendered from more than 11 million player deaths in Just Cause 2.
Tetris to expand into waffles, furniture, soup, everything
Tetris is gunning for the Peanuts model of brand ubiquity: When it began early 30 years ago, Tetris quickly became one of the most popular video games sold. Now, the Tetris Company, which owns the Tetris brand, says it plans to expand beyond videogames and soon hopes to introduce dozens of new Tetri
Nintendo gives 3DS users walking papers in global "Street Pass" day
Street Pass is this nifty feature on the Nintendo 3DS that lets the device automatically exchange information with other devices while you’re walking. So naturally that works best when everyone’s doing it. Nintendo is making it easier for you with a global Street Pass day to get people out walking
Cory Arcangel: "My art is anti-technology."
Brooklyn Rail takes a closer look at the videogame-inspired art of Cory Arcangel: “My art is anti-technology,” says Arcangel softly, his flecked blue eyes fixed over his computer, as he clicks out of his Twitter feed and into one of his 15 websites. “Even though I spend almost all my waking hours on
Today on Kill Screen: Ron Gilbert of Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion on George Lucas, comedic timing, & satire
Do you have any stories about George Lucas? Which you can print? Um, maybe. We always had a little bit of this inferiority complex, because we would go to these company meetings and the different groups would present what they’d been doing for the last year. Industrial Light & Magic would go up ther
PAUSE: The colorful, vacant screens of Noguchi Rika echo of Lumines
Noguchi Rika – MIMOCA vol 2 [h/t]
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