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Flashback: Alan Alda on the Atari

Baseball as evolutionary sport

We forget sometimes that videogames are part of a larger rubric of play, but these observations on how baseball “evolved” from Tim Carmody over at Snarkmarket are dead-on. You could probably make a similar argument about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: And every difference between early baseball and t

May 2, 2011, 1:00 pm

PAUSE: Mario loses his head. [via]

May 2, 2011, 12:00 pm

Five very angry avians. David Boni made this graphic for us and we popped it in the store!

Are Humans on the Brink of Another Evolutionary Leap?

A new study about fish speciation suggests that human brain stimulation can have evolutionary consequences. Brain stimulation, eh? You mean like Portal 2. From io9: The elephantfish, like a few other creatures who live in cloudy water, communicates via weak electrical signals. Using a special organ

May 2, 2011, 10:00 am

“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.” — writer G.K. Chesterton

Top Ten 5/2: PSN Returns, IGN & UGO Make Out, PopCap Brings a Boy’s Dreams to Life

We know that mainstream videogame news can be tough to keep up with, so here’s your cheat sheet for the day. 1. PlayStation Network is to return this week after compromising more than 70 million users’ credit card numbers. 2. A new look at Goichi Suda & Shinji Mikami’s upcoming Shadows of the Damned