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Official Nintendo Magazine Cover Jumps Off Page, Literally, With the Power of Augmented Reality
This isn’t the first time augmented reality has been used for a magazine cover, but it’s a nifty demonstration nonetheless. Official Nintendo Magazine, the official Nintendo magazine, chose 100 Miis from their readers and popped them on their new cover via QR codes. If you are desirous of having 100
Stage for Austrian Opera Festival Is Something Out of God of War
So rad. When the idea for the first Bregenz Festival was tossed around almost seventy years ago, the Austrian city didn’t have the funds to build an opera house, so they constructed a makeshift stage against the city’s most beautiful natural setting – Lake Constance. The idea seemed wildly eccentric
Sharp British Movie Mag ‘Tron’ Poster Homage
Film mag Little White Lies has a spot close to our heart, being a spiritual cousin to what we’re trying to do with videogames. The produce a different cover based on a recent film and their Tron poster just hit the shop.
Apple Fanboy iTable Merges Interior Design, Rabid Brand Devotion
There is love….and then there is obsession. If you’re the kind of person who loves Apple products, we can understand that. But there are those who wish to adorn every surface of their home, perhaps even their bodies, with the silky, smooth sheen of Apple product design. If you are one of these peopl
For One Musician, All the Parts of the Game Boy Are Music
There’s chiptune music, of course, that incorporates videogame music into modern contexts, but for one musician, music is best made by not even turning on the machine. [thx, casey!]
April 12, 2011, 11:11 am
Japanese kids take refuge from the quake through their Nintendo DS. [via tinycartridge] “Japanese refugee children play with their personal video games inside a gymnasium used as a shelter in Fukushima, northeastern Japan”, captured by David Guttenfelder.
April 12, 2011, 11:00 am
A dramatic re-envisioning of Angry Birds as Hitchcock-ian thriler…. “Alfred Hitchcock’s Angry Birds“, by Zero-Lives.”
