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Well-placed strokes are an important thing in Samurai Gunn, the new, super-fun, four-player fighter for PC that dabbles pixel art with Kurosawa. That applies not only to strategy in a game where one hit will kill you, but also to the game’s visual flair. A horizontal slash scores the arena like a ri
When I was in school, the periodic table was distinctly un-fun—a photocopied chart of elements and atomic numbers to be memorized in rote fashion. Toca Boca’s Science Lab for iPad, out tomorrow, looks like the greatest argument for the gamification of learning to date. (Putting aside how problematic