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Cheat Sheet 5/26: Minecraft is taking to the skies, Microsoft loses last Xbox founder
Here’s your mainstream videogame news for the day, made easy. –Australians who pre-order LoZ: Ocarina of Time for 3DS can get an actual ocarina and sheet music. -Developer Hothead Games announced a game based on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy book series. -The last remaining founder of the
NBC Universal’s SyFy Channel and Trion World to create a T.V. show/videogame hybrid.
In theory, this sounds kind of interesting. NBC Universal’s SyFy Channel and game developer and publisher Trion Worlds will be bringing a new kind of T.V. show to the summer of 2012. The show, entitled Defiance, will follow the general plot of a future Earth populated both by humans and by aliens. B
Friskies tablet games for cats are virtual catnip.
Do you own a cat? Do you also own a tablet? Now you can bring these two parts of your life together, because Friskies has released three new games designed exclusively for cats. The three games, Cat Fishing, Tasty Treasures Hunt and Party Mix-Up are the product of some serious feline research: “To
New video game can actually help kids’ vision.
Ever been told not to sit too close to a screen because it might damage your eyes? Researchers and the University of Manchester have found a way around that. Sort of. They have developed a new game that allows kids as young as four to sit still long enough for them to check for things like glaucoma
Video game designers know the greatest playground is your brain.
The human brain is an elusive, enigmatic thing. It can produce stunning intellectual achievement or irredeemable inanity. It loves a good puzzle almost as much as it loves shiny objects. Dan Gould’s detailing of the psychological goldmine that are videogames shows how game designers know how to woo
Arcade restorer puts new polish on old sleaze.
California’s Michael Ford likes to breathe life into dusty old arcade machines. But Ford decided to rummage through some of America’s older, dirtier forms of cabinet entertainment and make a good old-fashioned peep-show, spiffy and shiny and as dirty as it should be. He explains why he made it: “I b
Today On KS: We review the blood-soaked dance that is The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
Jason Johnson sees James Silva’s The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile as a gory dance that toys with our expectations: We call it play, but our options in a videogame are generally so narrow that it feels more like being dominated. A cold and mechanical algorithm looms over us, and all we can do is push l
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