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E3: Nintendo discusses efforts to keep bad thoughts out of the Wii U’s happy place.
With its new social features Miiverse and NintendoLand, Nintendo is confronting the challenges of monitoring and regulating the ways people communicate with each other inside its privileged magic circle. Speaking at a developer roundtable at E3, Nintendo’s Katsuya Eguichi spoke about the company’s e
Why the same behavior-modding techniques of FarmVille may be perfect for weight loss.
Benjamin Jackson earlier this year explored the roots of social games like FarmVille in the behaviorialism of B.F. Skinner, questioning their core ethical principles: Many people defend FarmVille as a harmless distraction, arguing that the thousands of hours spent playing the game would still have b
Say hello Joggobot. You will never run alone.
The Week reports on the future of running. All I could think of is the drones from BioShock 2. For those who lack a human partner, researchers Floyd Mueller and Eberhard Grather, of the Exertion Games Lab at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, have developed “Joggobot,” a quad-
E3: Does XCOM: Enemy Unknown belong more to fans or its developers?
XCOM: Enemy Unknown has a lot to live up to. The revival of the classic PC strategy title, which many consider the finest videogame ever made, is destined to become an extension of the hopes, dreams, and ideas of its most intense fans. At E3, I spoke with Jake Solomon, Lead Designer from Firaxis, ab
Are free-to-play games a fool’s errand?
Free-to-play games are all the rage. Dmitri Leonov offers a tri-fold theory on what actually makes sense in the freemium model: The Evernote-like Paywall: The way the product is designed, a significant portion of the users will inevitably cross the paywall. The longer you use the product, the more v
Videogames for tweens girls teach nothing but fashion, greed, & gold-digging.
What kinds of videogames did you play when you were in Jr. High? For those who are in their 20s now, Megaman, Zelda, and Catz might be on the list. There weren’t many games for tween girls back then. Mobile and Flash games have really changed the market for young gamers, who can play games for free
Cheat Sheet 6/6: The Last Guardian E3 absence explained, new F-Zero game shown, and Kojima teases a new love game.
E3 trampled us underfoot today with these crushing news stories: -Microsoft puts the Zune out to pasture. -Square Enix shows its next-gen engine to rival Unreal 4. –New F-Zero game revealed inside NintendoLand. -Sony discusses the PlayStation 4. -Hideo Kojima hints at a new game series to focus on
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