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"Choose not to play"
-The slogan of the new anti-violent gaming movement started by Max Goldstein, 12, of Newtown, Connecticut. Goldstein started the campaign to throw away violent games after attending the funeral of Daniel Barden, 7, who died last Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary.
The Grading Game, or the iOS app for David Foster Wallace’s SNOOTs
Permit me to quote at length from DFW’s masterful “review” of usage dictionaries, “Tense Present,” from the April 2001 issue of Harper’s Magazinze: From one perspective, a certain irony attends the publication of any good new book on American usage. It is that the people who are going to be interest
Did The War Z break the law? We asked the Federal Trade Commission
By now, you know the facts. Valve published Hammerpoint Interactive’s massively multiplayer zombie game The War Z. The product description page promised a host of features which did not appear in the game itself. Gamers accused War Z‘s developers of censoring their complaints in Steam forums. Yester
Science: a few good early reviews outweigh later negative critical consensus
Do you ever notice how a few websites review big games early, and how those early reviews tend to be positive? Well, it turns out that there’s a demonstrable psychological effect at play when this happens: A pair of studies suggests that we remain impressed after reading early positive reviews, even
Badland is the prettiest indie we’ve seen in a long time
Badland won Best Project at last month’s Game Connection Europe, and the trailer makes it easy to see why: the game marries the one-button simplicity of Tiny Wings with the mechanical platforming menace of Limbo, under an aesthetic so polished it fairly glistens. The game is the baby of Frogmind stu
THRED, the iOS game that fights the spread of HIV
A new iOS game was created with the purpose of both educating and raising money for HIV prevention. The game is called THRED and is born from a partnership between Coca-Cola and RED, the latter being a company which tries to reduce the prevalence of HIV in the style of the “pink” movement to fight b
The best of #whatdoesagamedesignerlooklike
At 9:45 PM last night, Eastern Standard Time, the game developer Robin Hunicke – she of Journey fame – tweeted a picture of herself with the query: what does a game designer look like? You know the rest: a hashtag was born and a flood of game designers started snapping selfshots! So, what DO game de
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
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