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Cheat Sheet 3/28: The next PlayStation, More "True Ending" DLC, and Auditorium 2 takes off
Here’s today’s news: – The next PlayStation is codenamed “Orbis,” may be launching in late 2013, has a few illustrations of features, and may not be backwards compatible with the PS3.. – Asura’s Wrath has announced DLC that will bring players the “true ending” of the game. See what they did there?
PAUSE: this is your cat on Yu-Gi-Oh!
Hats off to BuzzFeed for curating the finest-quality cat material on the internet. But this one is especially relevant. I mean, this kid doesn’t even need an iPad to play with his cat. [BuzzFeed]
Do videogames abet cyberbullying?
As the recent resolution of the case following Tyler Clementi’s harassment and suicide illustrates, regulating online spaces is a difficult (if not impossible) task with potentially fatal consequences. Harder still is drawing the line between legitimate hate crimes and “cyber bullying,” which has st
That’s right, Martha Stewart is coming to CastleVille.
Just when I thought Zynga’s place in the game industry couldn’t get any weirder or more contentious, Mashable gave me this little gem: Martha Stewart is setting up house on Facebook. From now until mid-April, players of Facebook gameCastleVille will be able to interact with a virtual (and much young
PAUSE: A tour through 8-bit videogame history in Snafu’s new music video.
Video Sna-fu Grand Désordre Orchestre‘s new music video for their song “Dreamorama” first seems like it’s just making a kitschy reference to 8-bit nostalgia. But as the video (made by French filmmaker Pierre Manry) progresses, the arcade history it pulls out is impressively comprehensive—making refe
Can videogames be overtly philosophical?
A few years back, Ian Bogost began writing a 3-part series asking if one could ever build a “metaphysics videogame.” Part 2 was published shortly thereafter, leading with the promising question: “what kind of videogame” would such a philosophical inquiry make? Unfortunately we never saw the final po
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