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Review of Spec Ops: the Line or coffee capsule? You make the call.
Mitch Krpata analyzes the language from reviews of Spec Ops: The Line and Keurig instant coffee capsules. “Spellbinding complexity… deep, dark, and intense” or “Rich, robust, and powerful.” Only answers await you through this door.
Junot Díaz’s new short story collection has Brickbreaker on the cover.
I loved The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao from Pulitzer-winning novelist Junot Díaz and his review of Grand Theft Auto IV a couple years back is equally magical. Good to know his new short story collection (below) wears its loyalties on the cover.
New robotic legs have robotic muscles, robotic nervous system, robotic funny bones.
Looks like biology is still our ideal model for technology, as these builders take a step back to try and replicate the complexity of the world instead of simplify it. From Wired: The research, published today in the Journal of Neuroengineering by researchers from the University of Arizona, could he
Games struggle in the light of maturity.
Rob Fahey has just posted a sobering piece about maturity in videogames that’s as critical as it is optimistic. Video games are a creative medium, and as such they intersect with many different fields of human experience – but they’re also still exploring the bounds and possibilities of technology
Artist’s wireframe-sketches-turned-light-sculptures trace the synthetic grotesque.
Franciose Gamma, Soul w/ Contour Barcelona-based Franciose Gamma’s synthetic treatment of human form is more like Rodin than what some call, vaguely, contemporary net-art. Subsumed by currents both transcendent and excrutiating, the figures combusted offscreen for the first time in his recent galler
Recruiters would rather just let you fight it out in job simulations.
For nearly twenty years, French cosmetics empire L’Oreal has apparently been using a game to recruit the employee who can shoot their brand into the next dimension. Perhaps to no one’s surprise, the game called Brandstorm (bold added for clarity, pizzazz) is great at naming winners, applicants who c
With the help of new tech, children learn to read by themselves these days.
According to an article at the BBC, children may be teaching themselves to read in the near future with the help of technology. MagicTown is a “world that unites books and gameplay,” designed for children on the web and the iPad, that is trying to preserve the tradition of storytelling for a future
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