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Can the San Francisco Giants fight ignorance about game ratings?
What’s the difference between Kirby’s Dream Land and Catherine? ESRB ratings help parents know that not all cartoon-styled games are for children, but who helps parents know about ESRB ratings? For the California Bay Area, the San Francisco Giants will star in public service announcements that will
Dead Space 3 revealed via website countdown, the news industry turning into rental space for product announcements.
Dead Space 3 is coming sometime. After several months of anonymous rumors about the game featuring co-op play and being set on an ice planet, EA released a screenshot and started a countdown timer on the game’s official website. The image shows a lone space person–armored in metal and carrying a gun
Will no one play World of Warcraft with Gamer Mom?
Conversation is a kind of game, with unwritten rules and a spectrum of success if persuasion is part of the angle. Individuals with Asperger’s don’t have the intuitive knowledge it takes to “just talk.” Often, they form explicit rule sets to help them understand what is socially acceptable. Mordecha
PAUSE: Jay-Z and Kanye West let crowds do the talking. Will videogames do the same?
video We live in an age of riot porn. Slogans like Occupy or the 99% only tickle a long-growing dissatisfaction with the socio-political apparatus that can change labels from election to election but never seems to better the circumstances of anyone’s lives. Raw depictions of violence in times like
DOOM 3 gets remade to support head-mounted displays, one step closer to the real next generation.
It’s easy to think of videogame “generations” as those defined by the changes in console hardware. In truth, real generations only loosely correlate to new advances in microprocessors and are better defined by major new design paradigms. iD Software helped define one of the last major generational s
THQ hires Naughty Dog-founder Jason Rubin as president.
video THQ has been in a extended public struggle to keep the company out of bankruptcy after over-investing in PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of its uDraw tablet peripheral. Yesterday, the company announced Jason Rubin would take over as president, while Danny Bilson, the Executive Vice-Preside
Gamersgate tries to Spotify videogames with VOID, offers free access to limited library with advertisements.
In less than a year, Spotify has popularized the idea of free access to music all the time, gaining more than 19.9 million monthly users and exciting a new round of fundraising, led by a $100 investment from Goldman Sachs. This week Swedish company GamersGate launched its own version of Spotify for
Five reflections on Zelda from the world of ancient art.
One summer in Paris, I spent a lot of free time in the old master painting wings at the Louvre, but eventually grew tired of the throngs of tourists. I relocated to the empty rooms of ancient Greek relics, where I discovered a small terra cotta statue of a Greek Siren, and thought, “I know I’ve seen
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