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Navigate this site by playing Mario.
Tired of boring website layouts? This website for the East India techno-fest, Concetto, lets you play Mario to navigate between pages. Jumping to hit a block scrolls through photos of past events, and caves of pipes take you to various sub-pages. Fun for a first-time visit, but probably kind of a pa
PAUSE: Epic cross stitch of all 151 original Pokémon.
Videogame fans are growing up, and we aren’t always satisfied with a five-dollar poster anymore. While there are plenty of prints and figures for the fan with a little more money, some prove their love of videogames with long hours of labor. Eponases made this cross stitch of all original 151 Pokémo
Augmented reality kitchen set is Cooking Mama without the kawaii.
This is the best part: This simulator calculates the heat transfer from the pan to the meat or vegetables that are being cooked, and displays the visible changes caused by heating. The fry pan interface allows for three dimensional input, and as well as moving the fry pan to aid the cooking process,
Why you read Nintendo Power even if you didn’t own an NES.
Over at the New Yorker, Reeves Wiedemann laments the loss of Nintendo Power which served his adolescence the same illicit joys as Hustler. (His analogy, not mine.) It’s by far my favorite eulogy for the advertisement rag that doubled as “journalism” and a reminder of the immense cultural sway that N
This Kickstarter "best of" video for PAX is cinematic inspiration.
Feeling bummed about the future of games? It happens. But here’s your daily dose of inspiration. Kickstarter is headed to PAX Prime this year and put together a reel of clips from some of their favorite campaign videos (including us!). While it’s simply an announcement of their booth presence, it al
Timeless style in SpyParty inspired by The Incredibles.
The new art style for the still-in-beta game SpyParty is a paragon of taste. SpyParty is a game where you must hide in plain sight and engage in psychological sleuthing to figure out who the other spies are. It also involves massive amounts of meta-gaming and high-level brain manipulation on the le
Google’s Play Issue finds AR games at Disney World.
Google has been making its own trendy, well-designed publication with Think Quarterly. Designed by the Church of London, the current issue, The Play Issue, recalls another, similarly-named issue of a quarterly publication. Their article on Disney’s “Imagineering” shows former LucasArts designer Jona
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