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Artist gives QR Codes a fighting chance via a 1970 zero-player game
The accidental aesthetic of Quick Response (QR) codes has gained the attention of artsts looking to explore its vast storage capabilities and (smart phone) user-friendly scanning. A few QR artists have hung whole galleries, courting comparisons to Piet Mondrian. Another Dutch artist, Sander Veenhauf
New details on Limbo developer Playdead’s next game, Project 2.
A list of interactive grant recipients from the Danish government has outed Limbo developer Playdead’s next game. Code-named Project 2, the list describes the game as taking place in a 3D world but with 2D gameplay. The game will tell the story of a lone boy’s fight against an evil group that are tr
Tinkercad turns 3D object design into a trading game.
video The idea of 3D printing objects has prompted a lot of utopian daydreaming, but it’s also led a host of eager novices to realize they’re actually lousy 3D designers. Tinkercad is a web-based 3D design tool built to make designing objects a simple and communal activity. Speaking in an interview
Zynga stock suffers sharp drop, finds itself in Hollywood hit conundrum.
The social game giant who owns Facebook’s Farmville and mobile fads like Draw Something and Words With Friends has watched their stock deflate rapidly in the past few trade days. Just a couple of possible reasons for the recent tailspin: dwindling interest in previous games from mobile players and F
The White House interested in using videogames as a way to interact with citizens.
Many videogame fans are used to the government trying to regulate their hobby, but the Obama administration appears to be embracing the form. Speaking at the Games for Health conference in Boston, Constance Steinkuehler Squire, a policy advisor for the White House Office of Science and Technology Po
Now you can read Thomas Pynchon on your mobile device.
At last capitulating to the growing digital hegemony, the hermitic, not-dead-yet novelist–whose beautifully explosive books (Gravity’s Rainbow, Mason and Dixon, The Crying of Lot 49) have left readers, writers, and critics in awe for the last half-century–is all-of-the-sudden fine with his books bec
Thatgamecompany will self-publish their next game (with help of venture capital, of course!)
With the beloved title Journey released on Playstation Network to critical and commercial success, indie developer darlings Thatgamecompany have wrapped up their three-game deal with publisher Sony. Now, with financing from VC firm Benchmark Capital, Thatgamecompany ventures forth to create their ne
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