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The locally-grown game movement starts with this chart.
The slow food movement has been gaining popularity in the USA. Hip restaurants boast that their food is locally sourced and completely organic. Purchasing food locally can reduce gas consumption and supports the local economy. Purchasing videogames locally might not reduce gas consumption, but it p
Elmo plays an RPG to learn letters.
Sesame Street has a history of creating parody music videos (like Cookie Monster’s “Share It Maybe“). Videogames are prevalent enough in popular culture that they’re deserving of Sesame Street parodies as well. After all, the target audience of Sesame Street today has always had access to things li
Do games need harsher critics?
Critical discussions of videogames take place largely on the internet—much of the intellectual runoff filtering into Twitter and Facebook feeds, waiting to be shared. But does our desire to be ‘liked’ and ‘followed’—as critics or artists—come at the expense of honest critical thought? For the New Yo
New game allows you to make only one move each day. Genius or annoying?
The Super Friendship Club, a forum for casual videogame creators, encouraged participation in a “slowjam” to make a game about rituals in two weeks. One of the resulting games by Michael Brough is called VESPER.5. In this game, you may take one step each day, and then you must wait for the next day
What we talk about when we talk about videogame addiction.
The payoff of sex, music, and drugs? The guaranteed satisfaction of more music, sex, and drugs. According to this animated video from AsapSCIENCE, this Epicurean triumvirate stimulates our brains’ supply of a neurochemical called dopamine, which always leaves you wanting more. In the same way that a
Skyrim punishes you by wasting your time.
Academic journals are often awful about accessibility. If you don’t have access to a university library, it’s almost impossible to know what’s going on in the academic community. Fortunately, “open-source” or free, online academic journals are gaining in popularity. Mediascape, UCLA’s journal of cin
How schools need to stop fearing and love the web.
To many educators here and in the UK, consumable digital technology and social media are only distractions, pastimes, ways to escape the monolithic institution of education. But as schools build firewalls around their classrooms, are they depriving their students from learning how to graduate from u
Passion Pit’s "Take a Walk" evolves into cinematic wonderland in new Soundplay game.
It’s here! The last game from our Soundplay project with Pitchfork and Intel comes to life this week. Built by Aussie developer Pachinko Pictures, it’s a simple tale of beetle that dreams to be a frog that dreams to be a chicken that dreams to be… You get the idea. Play it here! More on the team: Pa
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