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The delightful Crayon Physics Deluxe is now free for iOS
Last year we profiled the righteous Finn and game developer Petri Purho, the man behind Crayon Physics Deluxe. That delightful puzzle game, with its Kindergarten-drawing aesthetic and drawing mechanic, originally dropped in 2009 and has come out over various platforms since then, mostly recently as
A heart-wrenching story of death and videogames
Jenn Frank wrote a tragic and beautiful piece about the death of her mother. It reads the way your mind reels after a tragedy. It’s that flurry of emotions where you feel every kind of awful: angry, regretful, hopeless and helpless. Here is an excerpt: I’d worked so hard to improve my mother’s condi
Are speed runners the real competitive gamers?
Earlier this week I speculated about the reason for the rise of Twitch and the new games voyeurs, people who watch others play competitive online games, live, from far away. Shortly after I wrote the piece, a friend suggested the real reason millions of people watch League of Legends and Starcraft r
Is it safe to get a Vita yet?
Boy do I want a Vita. I always wanted a PSP, but being an aspiring videogame journalist (poor) and already possessing a DS, I never could justify it. Then the Vita came out I promised myself I was going to buy it when the price dropped. The price dropped, but at that point about 1000 articles scryed
This scientist built a videogame to test for cognitive impairments
Research psychologist Konstantine Zakzanis had known for years that the convetional tests for cognitive impairment in patients with disorders ranging from depression to Alzheimer’s disesase to post-concussive syndrome were unreliable. He even wrote a book about it. Frustrated by his inability to te
Skrillex will get under your skin in "advergame" Skrillex Quest
Television advertisements are usually boring or insulting. There are the occasionally inspiring or well produced, but as a whole TV adverts have the superb ability of inspiring misanthropy. And videogame advertising? There is the tried and true product placement, but there are also entire games devo
Spacewar! coming to Museum of the Moving Image
Lots of museum news today, what with our very own Jamin Warren helping to decide what video games are worthy of de Kooning and Brancusi. The other story, which might get lost in the shuffle, is that a playable replica of Spacewar!, one of the very first videogames, will be displayed at the Museum of
The science game that lets you fight physical pain
Last week at the London Science Museum, a new exhibition called Painless opened. It explores …pain through the stories of extraordinary people who deal with it every day – from the patient who suffers with chronic pain in his missing limb, to the man who feels no pain at all. How are scientists work
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