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Why the trailers tell me Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate will be bloody awful
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Save Brooklyn from the British before saving it from itself in this videogame
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The history of photography could predict the future of videogames
Photography learned what made it unique. Games are too.
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Apps are the best hope for Moscow’s architectural heritage
You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone. So it is in Moscow, where on the occasion of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art’s unveiling, the architect Rem Koolhaas told The Guardian “you can say so many things about the Soviet system that were bad, but in terms of public architecture it was g
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Russian museum installation maps blood and death onto Stalingrad
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A professor attached emoji to selfie sticks to help us combat vanity
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A Minecraft competition hopes to reimagine Shakespeare’s final resting place
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