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UK festival GameCity asks "What’s the point of videogames?," struggles to reach a definitive answer.
A panel of politicians, cultural commentators, industry figures and (non-gaming) journalists discussed “What’s the point of videogames?” for just over an hour at London’s British Film Institute (BFI) on Wednesday evening. Such an open question might have relegated the debate itself topointlessness,
PAUSE: Curious what Pong would look like in real life? One photographer shows you.
Patrick Runte’s photographs are what arcade cabinets dream about at night. The series is called “JumpNRun.” [via PSFK]
How the sound director of Rhythm Heaven Fever tapped everything from Japanese weddings to Neal Peart for inspiration.
People often complain that there isn’t enough to play on the Wii, but if you missed Rhythm Heaven Fever, the followup to 2009’s Nintendo DS title, it’s worth waggling your controllers again. Unlike most music games that require complicated arrangements of button combinations, Rhythm Heaven Fever is
The Kinect of the future will be robots we move with our mind.
Video Mind over matter? A team of researchers have demonstrated that humans with severe brain injuries can operate machines. Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to move her own arms or legs for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she can steer a robotic arm to
38 Studios is in big trouble and Rhode Island may have to foot the bill
As Joystiq has reported, Rhode Island’s government has taken a special interest in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer 38 Studios. After the state’s 75 million dollar loan about a year and a half ago, hopes were high that the developer would create new jobs. But others, like the state trasururer
If Commander Shepard ran the Apollo program, would Americans have supported it? Probably not.
For videogames, space is essentially a given. The shipping lanes of Eve Online, the intergalactic machinations of Commander Shepard in Mass Effect — these are all rooted in the assumption that in the future, mankind’s destiny will be in the stars. In fact, we rarely reflect on what it would take to
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