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"Let’s face it, politics in this country is coin-operated."
That’s Gateway computer founder Ted Waitt who recently launched a centrist Super-PAC. [via Mother Jones]
What would happen if you play StarCraft as a pacifist? An Occupy Wall Street protestor?
Dan Wilkerson may not consider himself a performance artist, but his role-playing on StarCraft II has a distinctly disruptive feel. Rather than engage in martial combat, Wilkerson adopts a role, ad libs the dialogue, and screen caps the result. This is basically Improv Everywhere for Terrans. Below
Enjoy Madden while it lasts. This concussion lawsuit may put the NFL on the ropes.
Malcolm Gladwell called it. Kids might play Madden someday with the same incredulity as Pitfighter and ask “Did we really used to do that?” HuffPo reports on the lawsuit’s accusation that the NFL knew the risks, but did nothing: The NFL, like the sport of boxing, was aware of the health risks associ
PREMIERE: The Amplifetes rock out w/ interactive music video, offer trip to the Arctic Circle
Video Fresh off the heels of our Soundplay project with Pitchfork, Swedish four-piece The Amplifetes take their own swing as music game excellance. To promote their upcoming album, they’ve created a the Guitar Hero-like interactive music video Where is the Light. (They’re planning to turn it into an
PAUSE: Michael Bay brings dustep and explosions to E3.
video The juxtapositions one finds at E3 are a marvel. On the one hand you have perfectly tame things like Micrsoft’s new music streaming service, and on the other hand there is an ocean of explosions, executions, and non-sequitur dustep. Jarosh Barkdale has done a fine job capturing this bizarrenes
Want to close the gender gap in tech? Make girls play more videogames.
Dana Goldstein ties high-paying jobs in tech to young girls playing more games. The effects of this gender gap reach far beyond whether women are building video games or coding Web apps alongside men (and making technology female-friendly—remember the Siri/abortion flap? Or the more recent dust-up o
E3: God of War: Ascension reveals the magic of creative destruction.
video Creative destruction has been an important idea in the U.S. presidential election, with Mitt Romney claiming the fecund growth that occurs after bankruptcy and mass layoffs is an essential part of the capitalism. The concept finds a surprising co-conspirator in God of War: Ascension, which wil
Why the death of the Hollywood Western augurs the end of modern shooters.
At Brainy Gamer, Michael Abbott turns to film to predict what the spate of samey shooters means for modern games. He looks to the demise of Westerns despite their widespread popularity in the 50s: Westerns began to disappear in the late 1960s for reasons relevant to modern game developers: 1) Genre
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