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There is a game where you play as a starving Russian stray dog
Moscow stray dogs have learned to ride the subway and startle folks into dropping their food by barking. If that doesn’t work, they’ll beg for food from sympathetic girls. The strange strategy of Russian street dogs inspired a Pirate Kart game called Russian Subway Dogs. In this game, you play a do
Attention subway riders! iPhone 5 will deliver better graphics on a bigger screen
Apple revealed the latest iteration of their niche, hard-to-use, confusing and unpopular smartphone in San Francisco today, and there are a few takeaways for the small and elite handful of computer hackers that will use the iPhone 5 to play games: 1. A bigger screen means games will appear bigger. 2
Foreign Service officer killed in Libya was influential figure in EVE ONLINE
Sean Smith, one of the four Americans killed last night at the consulate in Benghazi, was a long-time player of EVE ONLINE and a beloved member of that game’s player community. A devastating eulogy on The_Mittani, as well as a testament to the power of online gaming social networks: I’m clearly in s
"Glitch art" finds meaning in tech failure
These kinds of artifacts are there all around us. Our technology is failing here and there in spurts and blips, and instead of approaching it as an annoyance or nuisance, we’re starting to actually appreciate what is given back to us. It’s part of the greater implications of our algorithmic world. A
The board game about gentrification
From the Canadian artist Flavio Trevsian, a board game based on Monopoly and Life in which players redevelop a once-blighted Toronto neighborhood: Playing the game is fairly simple. Everyone assumes an identity, from mayor to developer to resident of the demolished development. There’s even an “acad
Bullet Time: Sony dipping into VR; lots of indie bundles out there.
Some bullets that you may have been moving too fast to notice. -Sony is developing its own version of the Oculus Rift. -The free Vita game Ecolibrium releases today and allows you to “create and nurture your own ecosystems.” –Terraria getting a console port; some fans would rather have more free up
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