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Meet Monstrum, creators of the world’s greatest playgrounds
Every neighborhood has one. That one park or school or restaurant that had the playground you never could turn away from. My brother’s school had one — the twisting, wooden spires of his montessori, and the sheer size! It was enormous, with byzantine pathways, ample room to hide, and several walk wa
"We wanted to give the player a sense that Shaq could be from that universe, with powers and abilities like any other world warrior."
-Long Vo, creative director of Hiptic, which is producing the forthcoming beat-em-up ShaqDown. The game is the Big Aristotle’s triumphant return to gaming, two decades after the legendary Shaq Fu.
The War Z no longer purchasable on Steam
The War Z, the not-so-massively multiplayer zombie game that has been pelted by accusations of false advertising and near-plagiarism of DayZ is no longer purchasable on Steam (though the game description page is still up). Earlier today, users became outraged after the apparent censorship of posts c
Please, do not watch the first five minutes of BioShock Infinite online
We’ve become a culture obsessed with getting entertainment early. VOD plays movies before they hit the theater; Chris Nolan leaks the best scenes in the Batman movies as trailers; I’ve listened to half the tracks on most albums I’m looking forward to by the time they hit Spotify. Gamers are at the v
Today, play Shadow Love, the weird and fanciful (and free) shadow puppet game
Shadow Love is not going make any end-of-year lists, it’s not going to inspire 50,000 words about issues, and it’s not going to stake a claim for Japanese indies. But this platform game, with its incredible shadow-puppet universe (in which every other thing is some sort of weird hand contortion) mig
World’s most powerful supercomputer is basically a huge Alienware
The Titan, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, is the world’s most powerful supercomputer. It does 17.59 thousand-trillion calculations (petaflops) per second. The 4,300-square-foot monster achieves this insane number of parallel by pairing powerful CPUs with GPUs (graphical processin
"Make it Bun Dem", the song that defines Far Cry 3
There are those moments in games that burn themselves into your memory. How could you forget the beauty and horror of the “Waltz of the Flowers” moment in Bioshock. The battle with Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid and its absurd destruction of the fourth wall always makes me laugh: “You like Castel
Breaking Bad meets Mario in crazy Wii heist
Remember that scene in the first episode of this season’s Breaking Bad? The one where Walter and Jesse use the enormous magnet to destroy an evidence room? Yeah, well, videogame crooks are stepping their game up – these aren’t the usual counterfeiters or torrentors, but the real daring deal: The thi
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