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March 29, 2011, 12:26 am
A National Journal story takes a closer look at Obama’s West Wing. We saw potential for a new Sims expansion pack? The Sims Run For Public Office? via
March 28, 2011, 1:00 pm
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself” — Miles Davis
March 28, 2011, 12:00 pm
If you haven’t seen Patrick Jean’s Pixels, then you’re in for a treat. Pixels attack New York. That’s about it. Jean had this to say about the short: I played all these games when I was young ! Most of them were on Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC or Arcade machines. Another aspect was to mix these two d
March 28, 2011, 11:00 am
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.” — English essayist Charles Lamb
March 28, 2011, 10:00 am
Artist/creative technologist Justin Windle posted this project called “Smack My Glitch Up.” Pretty much speaks for itself — an excellent way to create glitch art.
March 28, 2011, 9:00 am
German designer Moritz Waldermeyer put together this amazing theramin-laser thing. Kind of feels like something that a Bond villain would devise to enslave the world with sound, but we’re happy with its non-evil uses as well. Also side note, Waldermeyer’s credentials are pretty thick: Since then, he
March 27, 2011, 7:58 pm
The connections between jazz and videogames are apparently very deep. There was Andy Baio’s curated Kind of Bloop chiptune take on Miles Davis’ classic Kind of Blue and Koji Kondo, prolific OG Nintendo creator of the Super Mario Bros. theme, talked a lot about the jazz leanings of some of his work.
