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PAUSE: Classy 3DS cases
The Japanese accesory site, WaSaBi, has come out with a line of clear plastic 3DS cases garnished with traditional art. The result: a sophisticated, personalized look. [via TinyCartridge]
Play of the Day: Starve your bourgeois appetite with Table For One.
Somewhere between the cruel irony of being too uncoordinated to eat the $30 New York Strip on your table and the haunted subjectivity of Ann Hamilton’s pin-hole mouth camera is the browser-game Table for One. Built in Unity and free on your browser, Table for One has one objective—to telekinetically
Super Retro Squad stars "Manny and Lanzo, two German miners" who "must rescue Princess Apricot."
Game developer Jay Pavlina, of Super Mario Bros. Crossover notoriety, is currently kickstarting a new game project called Super Retro Squad. Rather than borrowing characters directly, Pavlin says he is creating a new set of characters, including “Manny and Lanzo, two German miners” who “must rescue
Ford’s new car may be playing games with you.
Seth Porges recently spoke to Ford about the way games are making their way into car design—a new development in the “gamification” pandemic. Achievements? Badges? Of course, this will all sound very familiar to anybody who’s ever logged onto Xbox Live or Foursquare. And Rork is unashamed to say th
Why do we laugh at games?
According to Tom Stafford, the science behind human laughter is more than it’s cracked up to be. So if we want to understand laughter, perhaps we need to go deeper, and look at what is going on in the brain. The areas that control laughing lie deep in the subcortex, and in terms of evolutionary dev
Behavioral psychologist tries to unravel our cheat code.
Every game will have its cheaters, but according to Dan Ariely, professor of behavioral economics and psychology at Duke University, lying and cheating are hardwired into the continuum of morality, and it’s more malleable and nuanced than we often have time for. I’ve been talking to big cheaters, i
Team Fortress 2 ‘s economy allows complicated bartering.
Valve has hired economist Yanis Varoufakis, and he has a blog, where he recently looked at currency in Team Fortress 2, or rather, how people aren’t just using keys to get stuff. There’s a sophisticated bartering system, and you can actually end up with more than you started with if you trade right.
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