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Cheat Sheet 4/24: Crysis 3, Uncharted 3 GOTY, and the next Call of Duty.
Tuesday. Tuesday? Tuesday! Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Game of the Year Edition was announced. BioWare has insisted that Star Wars: The Old Republic is not losing subscribers. Activision is going to announce the next Call of Duty title on May 1st. Blizzard revealed more of the Witch Doctor’s prop
A physics professor finally takes a crack at Angry Birds.
How often have you been slinging birds through outer space lately and found yourself wondering, “this seems fun, but is it really accurate?” No, not the part about birds being slung through space without pressurized suits and some source of oxygen, just the physics question. Physics Professor Rhett
The New Yorker’s new social game allows us to consider the worth of words.
Could you live without the word ‘moist’? What if ‘leap’ replaced ‘jump’? Words shape our surroundings and perceptions. The New Yorker’s new social game, know as “Questioningly,” is focused on our relationship to words. Here’s how Ben Greenman explains it, We’ll pose a question, and then ask you to a
Interview: Gearbox Software explains their love of guns and Borderlands 2.
When Borderlands 2 is released on September 18, it will expand on the comic-book wasteland setting of its predecessor in more than a fictional way. The first game, a combination of first-person shooters, role-playing games, and massively-multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft, set itself ap
Interview: we talk with Ken Levine about the thought and theory behind Bioshock Infinite.
The day before I was scheduled to meet with Ken Levine, I caught a brief glimpse of him walking around the floor of PAX East. I didn’t recognize him at first, but standing in a long line of devotees and cosplayers-fans who dress up in elaborately constructed costumes of their favorite characters-a l
PAUSE: RuPaul’s Glamazon music video is one-half 8-bit charm. The rest is drag.
video Last night’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race shocked some fans by [spoiler alert] once again changing the rules of the game in the already tumultuous fourth season. Following the show’s tradition, the final three contestants star in a new music video with RuPaul. While normally these show off th
More projects like Fifth Ave. Frogger need to happen.
Gamasutra is great coverage of Tyler Deangelo’s Fifth Ave. Frogger. From Mike Rose, Inspired by an episode of Seinfield, in which George Costanza is trying to keep...
