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New Medal of Honor includes bin Laden movie maps; death house sold separately?
The LA Times reports: Electronic Arts will promote the upcoming film “Zero Dark Thirty,” about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, with a pair of downloadable maps for its military video game “Medal of Honor Warfighter.” The maps are both drawn from real locations in Pakistan; one is a gun market and the
Electing the Freshman Class to the UN of Gaming
This post is part of a content series presented in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, simplicity is delicious. Technology may be making the world smaller, but as the computer scientist Vannevar Bush pointed out in his watershed 1945 essay As We May Think, it is also making the world infinitel
Mass Effect franchise cements arrival in mainstream American culture by releasing an anime
Mass Effect was the subject of a lot of “videogames have arrived as a storytelling medium” claptrap over the past five years, and with good reason. The game had nuance and great characterization, fully-realized plotlines, and despite the protestations of thousands of ungrateful and petulant jerks wh
"I think there’s going to be a big resurgence of people hearing music live. As people become more isolated in front of their screens, they’ll look for more excuses to get together. Music’s a good excuse for that."
David Bryne in the Daily Beast on the future of music. You could say the things about games and indie arcades, no?
Super Hexagon will give you seizures.
Terry Cavanagh’s first iOS game is utterly dizzying. His past titles VVVVVV and At a Distance play with distance and difficulty with easier measures, so it’s no surprise that Cavanagh’s turned up the crazy with Super Hexagon.
NERF FIGHT! Ok, now that your autonomic nervous system is about to explode, read this NERF history
From Wired, the ultimate NERF story: The ball was first released in 1970 in a small black box whose packaging urged, “Throw it indoors. You can’t damage lamps or break windows. You can’t hurt babies or old people.” Also, this:
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