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E3: Far Cry 3’s co-op adds a note of Charlie Chaplin to its jungle firefights.
video Carrying boxes has become a videogame staple. It’s a chore in Zelda games, a satiric puzzle in Portal, and in Far Cry 3‘s co-op mode it seems to become almost slapstick. The 4-player co-op demo on show at E3 involved a multi-step mission where players stalked through a jungle, ambushed an enem
New touch screen to revive the thrill of pressing buttons.
Like a child tapping glass at a toy store window display, the creators of Tactus Technology have felt a rift between finger and device since 2007, when Apple dropped the touch-screen veil over its devices and denied consumers the feeling of total manual domination. Perhaps seeing that child in all o
E3: Xenomorphs eat carrots, don’t they? How Aliens Colonial Marines fit itself into someone else’s canon.
video The Alien movies have become a semi-permanent part of western pop culture. H.R. Geiger’s slimy mouth-within-a-mouth designs, the idea that androids bleed white, and the suspicion that a feverish stomach ache is precursor to a little creature clawing its way out of someone’s chest cavity–these
Decade-long Civilization II game locked in 1700-year nuclear war; ice caps have melted 20 times.
This is madness. A Reddit user has been playing Civilization II for more than a decade and the results are awe-inspiring/depressing: A couple of in-game millenia later, the landscape is mostly “inundated swamp land,” as the polar ice caps have managed to melt 20 times. Engineers are constantly buil
Meat-slinging Abraham Lincoln rewrites anti-history in Pixel Lincoln: The Deckbuilding Game
Flying in the palmed face of such nascent alternate Abraham Lincoln anti-histories as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, comes Pixel Lincoln: The Deckbuilding Game, a Kickstarter-backed card game promising the “fun and simple” appeal of a meat-slinging, dino-slaying, 8-bit Abraham Lincoln. The baroque
Cheat Sheet 6/12: Indie Game The Movie out now, new StarCraft II units, and Nintendo already researching 3DS successor.
We have it on good authority the following news stories, when translated into binary code, contain a star map to god. Read at your own risk. -Miyamoto says 3DS is good just the way it is, research has begun on next generation handheld. –Indie Game: The Movie out now. -Blizzard reveals new units for
Box Life is a virtual Donald Judd fantasy.
Artist Donald Judd would have likely seen a fundamental difference between Box Life–the free, abstract, first-person problem sovler by Tequbio–and his own work. That is, his box-y pieces dictate an experience of structural purity in the real world. Box Life–as a videogame–abstracts and softens the s
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