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The Argentinian arcade cabinet NAVE turns play into a performance
Just like the good ol’ days.
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The most interesting game at GDC was being shown on a laptop from some dude’s backpack
Inside Brigador, a game you should give a shit about.
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Shenmue gets GDC postmortem, continues Dreamcast’s jolly stroll into immortality
Yu Suzuki is scheduled to give a postmortem of Shenmue at the next Game Developers Conference in March. PlayStation 4 mastermind Mark Cerny will be translating for Suzuki. These postmortems are normally fascinating: developers cut like a flaming hot sword through the typical piles of marketing bulls
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Forget Mass Effect. NASA wants to put you in space for real.
The NASA session at G.D.C., We Are The Space Invaders, came at the end of a long day. Everyone looked exhausted, the woman sitting next to me had her shoes off, and more than a few chairs were free. You could almost here a collective sigh as the two presenters, Victor Luo and Jeff Norris of the NASA
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Far Cry 3 writer battles critics on Twitter, summons drug PSAs for defense
Far Cry 3, with its torture scenes and male-and-male rape and its leading millennial star named Jason Brody, is positioned as a work of cultural critique, a meta-commentary on the addictive gameplay systems and unsightly tropes found in popular shooter videogames. We’ve written about that before. Bu