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Do Videogame Players Want to Be Left Alone?
For the most of the history of games, they have been social experiences. Games like Solitaire were anomalous for their single-player game play. Writer Chuck Wendig was curious why so many videogame protagonists are afforded the luxury of solitude. Why don’t these digital wanderers have any friends?
March 29, 2011, 3:01 pm
Videogame ratings are at the heart of the upcoming Supreme Court decision, but much like Kirby Dick’s 2006 documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated exposed some of the problems of the movie rating system, an MIT research is attempting to do the same. Konstantin Mitgutsch is actually a scientific board
March 29, 2011, 2:00 pm
File under “Winning.” An opportunistic California company has decided that they have seen the future of games and it is called Sheen. Hyro-Gliff has decided to file a variety of trademarks based on all the crazy things that Sheen has said over the last few weeks. We hope it’s a cover-based shooter
March 29, 2011, 1:00 pm
“The score never interested me, only the game.” — Mae West
March 29, 2011, 12:00 pm
From the edges of science, a synthetic mother/spawn doll has been created to help medical students walk through a birth: The mother known as “Noelle” and baby “Hal” give students an interactive opportunity to prepare for a normal births and ones with complications. “They see what they need to do. Th
March 29, 2011, 11:00 am
The comedy video troupe Rooster Teeth, makers of the popular Red vs. Blue Halo parody series, have taken it upon themselves to re-imagine the world of Angry Birds as some strange political thriller. We believe the creation of imaginary worlds around the universe of Angry Birds is merely some global
March 29, 2011, 10:00 am
What is striking here isn’t that a Chinese company has decided create their own game, without consent, based on the popular Plants Vs. Zombies. What is amazing is that said infringe-o-rama was actually displayed at trade show as if it were something, you know, Shunxiang Technology came up with on th
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