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E3: Comedy Central’s Indecision Game turns politics into a sport for personal glory.
Though we have become overfamiliar with the terms, it truly bizarre to think of elections as something a person can win or lose. The process of determining how to organize and execute national bureaucracy has become another vessel into which we can pour our needs to be seen as good, great, or better
Want to learn to play Dwarf Fortress? O’Reilly has a 238-page book to teach you.
It’s in the programming section. Ha.
E3: In Halo 4 the (mostly) silent hero finally gets a voice.
video Like many shooter heroes Halo‘s Master Chief seldom speaks. Conventional wisdom says the absence of a specific voice makes it easier to identify with the hero, projecting parts of ourselves into the game. During a short video demonstration of Halo 4 at E3, Master Chief again breaks this genre
Cheat Sheet 6/12: Disney plugs Wreck-It Ralph with Fix-It Felix, Verizon drops phone plans, and Crytek freezes Timesplitters 4
We wake, unblinded by the Retina Display, to see the sun shine once again over earthen headlines. Disney plugs Wreck-It Ralph with the playable Fix-It Felix, the game from the movie about the “bad” guy from the game. Verizon to drop ordinary phone contracts, pick up “Share Everything” plans. Far
Cheat Sheet 6/11: New Mac laptops unveiled, Peter Molyneux exploring social media, and Black Ops 2 on Wii U outed.
That tingling in your left eyelid was indeed a psychosomatic reminder that Apple would announce new products today. -Apple announces new laptops, including much-rumored retina display Macbook Pro. -Magazine scans show Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 planned for Wii U. -Peter Molyneux discusses projects to
New video series takes a close look at the ridiculous portrayals of women in games.
A couple of weeks ago Anita Sarkeesian started a Kickstarter project to document female tropes within videogames and how they impact society. The Kickstarter aims to create videos to educate players and developers about these common stereotypes in hopes that they will see videogames with a more crit
How Hollywood is trying to make movie-themed games less terrible. Good luck.
Movie studios have a habit of capitilizing on their blockbuster titles with a videogame of the same name and basic plotline. The games rarely do their cinema sisters justice. But by redrawing characters and rewriting plotlines, Warner Interactive’s new market strategy will attempt to transform movie
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