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Zelda prototype cartridge went for $55,000 on eBay.
Further proof of the quantified nostalgia we extract from the hardware that projects an original story: According to Examiner, an original prototype of The Legend of Zelda will find a new, undisclosed home after selling for a record-breaking $55,000 on eBay. The price is the highest-ever for a Ninte
Bit.Trip.Runner 2 trailer imagines the terror of a pixelated world.
Gaijin Games has a sequel to Bit.Trip.Runner in the works and recently released this trailer. The trailer asks us to “Imagine a world where everything is 8-bit… where your greatest retro dreams come true. Well f*ck that place.” The Bit.Trip games are where some players’ retro dreams come true; Gaiji
The Chinese real-life avatars spending "time" in prison.
It is surprisingly common, in China at least, for the wealthy to hire scapegoats to confess to unfavorable crimes. More unbelievable, though, is the practice of hiring lookalikes to serve the upper class’s prison sentences. Geoffrey Sant over at Slate has published an excellent article detailing the
Five secret ways that games are changing the world.
This post is part of a content series presented in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, simplicity is delicious. Jane McGonigal’s 2011 best-selling book Reality is Broken inspired a young generation of game-players to think more broadly about the impact that their controller-wielding lives had
Yeasayer leaks own album, calls it a scavenger hunt.
When the Brooklyn-based, band-of-electro-brothers Yeasayer received word that their album was on “the verge of…being leaked through the cracks of the digital universe,” they spread their own tendrils into that digital universe to co-opt illegal trafficking by—for lack of a better word—gamifying the
Students hack drone-because the DHS needed to know.
If thousands of armed, unmanned, and GPS-reliant drones buzzing over our borders ever seemed way too precarious to believe they were making us safer, here’s why: Researchers at the University of Texas’ Radionavigation Laboratory led by Professor Todd Humphrey took command of a UT-owned UAV, because
Natural playscape a cheaper alternative to monkey bars.
Trees, rocks, logs, and bushes make for a great playground. An elementary school in Vancouver, Canada, installed a lovely garden of playtime delights for under $9,000. The children seem to enjoy it as well: As the garden has grown over the last two years, its play value has increased. Kids play hide
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