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Facebook filter adds the flags of all countries attacked by ISIS to your profile picture
Feeling guilty about not showing solidarity with France? We’ve got the answer.
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Lovely Weather We’re Having is as pleasant as its name implies
But nothing more.
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Philip K. Dick is getting his very own videogame tribute
Californium doesn’t have the look of a videogame about Philip K. Dick. We’re used to the somber, rainy cityscapes of Blade Runner when we think of the sci-fi author. Yet it may be the truest adaptation of the man and his work yet—the vibrant wash of summery hues included. It’s to be a first-person e
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The impossibility of Life is Strange’s conclusion
In which videogaming’s greatest love story comes to its conclusion.
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Sir Michael Rocks’ new video is an anime come to life
Japanese culture and hip-hop have a long relationship, from the genre’s mid-90s kung-fu obsession to Kanye’s mid-oughts evocation of Japanese pop art up through its current commingling in the very production of Drake’s ubiquitous “Hotline Bling.” The Chicago emcee Sir Michael Rocks has always been a
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What the NFL could learn about colorblindness from videogames
One might reasonably suspect that the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and New York Jets (which fans reliably inform me is spelled J-E-T-S) are fundamentally interchangeable, but last Thursday the league took this theory a bit too far. The Jets played in their customary green while the Bills wore red—or, as col
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You may not eat your greens ever again after playing this food horror game
I’m struggling to eat bananas these days. It’s Facebook’s fault. The damn thing is ruining my diet. I logged on one day to an auto-playing video of a spider breaking its way out of a banana. The devil of a thing pierced the skin from the inside of its fruity carriage and crawled out of it, into my n
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Oases is a psychedelic homage to a grandfather lost at war
Celebrate an uncertain past by imagining it as a surreal present.
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A Star-Trek-style medical scanner could be here in the near future
A team of Stanford University electrical engineers have taken large steps towards creating a portable scanning device to detect hidden objects, with possible applications in the medical field as a detector of tumors in the brain. The team says the device could be ready for practical use within the n
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Girl power videogame champions body positivity
Creators of multiplayer Slam City Oracles stir a riot grrl inspired ruckus with laugh-out-loud trampoline chaos that makes players feel comfortable in their own skin.
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Generate tiny ominous landscapes with this procedural generation toy
Mirror Lake is a strange little thing. Made in a week for Procedural Generation Jam, it creates static black-and-white landscapes, nestled inside a giant patterned bowl and suspended in space. Sometimes the space is dark, dotted with stars and the occasional sun or moon or comet; sometimes it’s a va
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Brigador wants you to die with dignity
A walking simulator filled with guns.