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8-bit Puma ad goads olympic-size nostalgia.
Puma’s interactive ad game, Run Puma Run, drops the languid austerity of their typical design for the sexy memory of the screen-lit suburban basement or the dingy arcade. Perhaps London 2012 could have predicted the pixelated fever dream of this year’s favorite screen fashion, but then again that wo
PAUSE: This carpet is an undulating gravity field.
A writer over at Make spotted this Paris game-store floor on Facebook. True, it’s flat, but is that really the right word for it?
The Critical Path summons the best developers to talk about contemporary videogames.
“Most people have no idea of any game designer. They might be able to name one, maybe.” —Rod Humble, executive on The Sims, Second Life, Everquest, The Marriage, etc. Perhaps it’s time we stop and let the developers, artists, designers, and directors do the talking. In preparation of an upcoming doc
3D Dictionary teaches foreign language vocabulary
Learning a foreign language often includes making a lot of flash cards and just brutally memorizing their meanings. Well, now you can brutally memorize language vocabulary in a virtual world, with visual aids! Rob Howland’s 3D Dictionary, or SanJiten, is a game where your mission is to study virtual
Could this DIY Holodeck finally bring virtual reality to the masses?
A group of students from the Interactive Media program at the University of Southern California (where thatgamecompany’s Jenova Chen first developed Flow) are constructing a consumer version of the Holodeck—that is, the ultimate virtual reality system imagined in Star Trek and countless other scienc
Browser-based Game Boy Emulator
Whether you’re catching up on classics or re-living your childhood, this browser-based Game Boy Color emulator has all the most popular games available. The only downside is that you can’t save your progress or trade any pokemon.
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