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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
E3: ZombiU plays with the power of unconscious decision making.
video The last few years have brought a bounty of new evidence about how the subconscious guides our actions. Where this leaves the concept of free will is up for debate but we are discovering large parts of our lives run by the rote guidance of the unthinking mind. ZombiU dramatizes the stress betw
E3: Dishonored gives you a keyhole view into other people’s private lives.
video Like all games that support stealth, Dishonored can be played by silently watching other people from the shadowy wings. In playing through the E3 demo mission without killing anyone, you’ll need to trail behind guards, eavesdropping on idle conversation to learn who’s running the show, what ar
Cheat Sheet 6/7: New retro Final Fantasy going mobile, workers riot at Foxconn, and Miyamoto ponders 3DS/WiiU connectivity.
Today E3 gave the world a parting hug in the form of these headlines. –Final Fantasy Dimensions, an episodic retro-RPG, coming to iSO and Android. –Angry Birds coming to consoles. -Shigeru Miyamoto talks about potentially connecting the 3DS and WiiU. -1,000 workers riot and Foxconn’s Chengdu factory
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