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The game that teaches you to read Japanese
Speaking of gamification, which can help motivate people to do boring things, it’s a useful way to learn a language. Learning Japanese kanji, especially, requires a lot of memorization. Koichi and Viet, who are associated with the Japanese culture blog Tofugu, are developing a kanji-learning website
What is the emotional cost of gamification?
Gamification can help motivate us to do boring things, whether it’s working out or engaging in social media. Over at Bit Creature, Lana Polansky explains how gamification is great for motivating us, but can detach us from emotions and feelings that make life interesting. We simply can’t have experie
How to make a Sword & Sworcery bento box
Anna the Red makes ridiculously detailed bento boxes. She’s done bentos of Calvin and Hobbes, Totoro, and now, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. The making-of video shows all the tweezing and exacto-knifing that went into this meal.
This is the movie trailer for the Arnold Schwarzenneger autobiography
The literary event of the new century is here. Not videogame news, you say? Here are 160 reasons you should watch your mouth.
Why Roller Coaster Tycoon works best as a simulation
Roller Coaster Tycoon is a fun simulation about building and managing theme parks, but if you carry its gameplay into real life, as in this fan video, it gets a little disturbing.
This ATM gives you money for your used gadgets
The ecoATM analyzes used electronics and identifies them with 97.5 percent accuracy. It then bids for the device. Right now, the kiosks are limited to used smartphones and MP3 players, but we here at Kill Screen think they are a natural fit for consoles and game handhelds, and not just because we’re
What is Sony’s next generation strategy?
Gamasutra on the logic behind Sony’s unexciting Tokyo Game Show announcements: Taken individually, each item doesn’t sound particularly exciting (especially this far into a console cycle, when everyone is waiting for hints of the next-generation entries from Sony and Microsoft). But read between the
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