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Play of the Day: Maps TD is Tower Defense + Google Maps. That is all.
Not much to explain here. Duncan Barclay designed this mashup of two life obsessions as seamlessly as mac n’ cheese. For Tower Defense fanatics in need of nostalgic realism, Maps TD is right up your alley. (Not to mention it makes good use of Google’s April Fools 8-bit Maps joke.) Defend the Eiffel
How one designer is turning the e-waste of landfills into children’s toys.
Upset by the electronic waste he saw in Phenom Penh, Dhairya Dand was inspired to launch a line of toys built from those abandoned laptops, cell phones, and other digital detritus that is generally considered useless. He calls the project “Thinker Toys“: To begin with I made four of these toys, each
The next Harmonix game involve this two-player pump organ.
Video Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow (aka Glasser) created this beast of a pump organ with the intent that no one should play music alone. We think it should feature prominent in a future Rock Band: The instrument cannot be played alone. Each player has a keyboard with alternating notes of a fou
Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to book burners of Slaughterhouse-Five has much to teach game censors.
In 1973, after a teacher at Drake High School in North Dakota introduced Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an over-zealous school board head demanded that all the copies be burned to protest the novel’s “obscene language.” Vonnegut intervened via a letter as pointed out by Jason Kottke. The entir
PAUSE: Assassin’s Creed and the Best Kinect-based April Fool’s Joke.
Personal injury and domestic violence aside, why can’t there be more Kinect games like this?
Now that mobile games are here, where will consoles go? Back down to the basement, clearly.
Ever since consoles beat out the personal computer as the dominant gaming platform by dint of sheer numbers, people have wondered what the fate of the PC will be. Now with the revolution in casual gaming and mobile platforms, are home consoles in the same commercial and cultural quandary? Wired take
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