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Stroke patients save the British government money by pretending they’re at the circus.
video As part of a plan to simultaneously modernize its services and cut costs, Britain’s National Health Service has announced a test program to use videogames to guide the recovery of stroke patients. Since it’s time-consuming and expensive to have patients come into the doctor’s office for physi
Modern Warfare 3’s intimate new Face Off mode is Dr. J vs. Larry Bird for the shooter set.
video In an effort to keep its churning Call of Duty community sated, Activision has tossed a new scrap of meat into the lion’s den. “Face Off” mode is the central part of Modern Warfare 3‘s new DLC collection, out today, which allows joystick gladiators to grapple with one another in intimately de
PAUSE: Look at this $%^%$& Q*Bert children’s book.
In the early 80s, Parker Brothers published a series of books on their arcade properties including our favorite foul-mouthed androgyne Q*Bert. It was one of many spin-offs from that time period that included frisbees, sleeping bags, and so on. [via OTL Gaming]
Zombie survival mod helps bump ArmA 2 sales 500%, reminds how boring games are without mods
Creating mods was once a central part of game culture, growing a vibrantly experimental subculture around jokes, experiments, and whole new types of play. In the last decade there has been a huge migration of PC developers coming into the safe but limiting arms of console manufacturers. Still, a nu
Details on Halo developer’s new game leak, scheduled for 2013 release
It’s been almost two years since Bungie’s last game, Halo: Reach, was released and details about their new games have been scant. But the studio’s plans were inadvertently made public this week by documents released as part of the on-going legal battle with Call of Duty co-creators Jason West and V
James Bond gets anthologized in a new best-of collection.
video To coincide with the release of the teaser trailer for 007: Skyfall, Sam Mednes’ turn at helm of the James Bond machine, Activision released a trailer for the Bond game it will release this fall to accompany the film. 007 Legends doesn’t actually have anything to do with Skyfall but is instea
The game designer who made everyone cry takes to Kickstarter for an African diamond trading game.
Three years ago Jason Rohrer signed a deal to make his first game for a traditional publisher. The man bend the now iconic Passage (a game that seems to have made everybody cry, at some point), reached an agreement with Majesco to make an ambitious political game for the Nintendo DS. Diamond Trust o
All of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer tracks are available in 8-bit wonderfulness.
Our friends over at Pitchfork have directed us to handiework of YouTube user QuintonSung who has lovingly interpreted Kid A and OK Computer into the closing credits for an NES Final Fantasy title. Video Track listing: 0:00 – Airbag 4:36 – Paranoid Android 10:49 – Subterranean Homesick Alien 15:10 –
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