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One of the most elaborate alternate reality games ever is launching early next year
Four levels of consent. The highest one required a signed medical waiver.
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Five things I consumed in 2014
2014 was a year in which one could partake.
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The Year in Blank Space
Games are discovering just how full an empty area can be.
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The Year in Anti-Games
Mountain, Goat Simulator, potato salad, and the new nobrow.
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The Year in Architecture
Learning to play the architecture of Abstract Ritual, NaissanceE and Frank Gehry.
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The Year in Ass
Ass is both a source and subject of power, in the real world and in videogames.
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The year games got funny again
Goats, microtransactions, anal probes, pizza: 2014 saw a new form of comedy emerge.
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Twitch Plays Pokemon and the year in crowdplaying
In 2014, developers gave control to the hivemind.
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The Year in Maps
The family resemblance in game maps is getting too strong to ignore.
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The Deer God makes you relate to hunter and hunted
Finding karma deep in nature.
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Watching sports from a more videogame-like perspective could reinvent them
In praise of the first-person view.
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Here Be Monsters
How Dungeons and Dragons lets you map the fantastic places in the corners of your mind.