Introducing the (literally) epic new Beowulf boardgame
From the people who brought you Moby Dick, the card game.
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NSA threat words make for unexpectedly moving magnet poetry
The point of magnet poetry is to add a dash of creativity and wordsmithery to your fridge, I figure, but the point of this magnet poetry browser game is create a poem from the words those fearful “threat words” the Department of Homeland security is scanning the Internet for. The game is called POET
Device 6 devs unravel mysterious references behind one of last year’s best games
Over on their blog, Simogo has published a compendium of all the mysterious symbols, obscure allusions, and creepy dolls found in Device 6, the puzzle-y, postmodern fairytale that captured our hearts and the number 13 spot on our best-of-2013 list. The references are all over the place. For example
This book dares to document Eve Online’s sprawling history
Writing a book on the infinitely fascinating virtual world of EVE Online sounds slightly less daunting than writing a book on the history of human civilization or something. Still, one journalist is undertaking that difficult task and documenting the long history, backhanded politics, void nullsecs,
Scrambled books of Shakespeare illustrate the travesty of digital photos
Digital photos are great, except when they’re not. As this series of books containing digitally compressed copies of Romeo and Juliet show, Jpegs are gradually turning the Web into a sinkhole of blurry, bad photography. Because Jpegs are lossy, whenever you save or edit a digital photo in the forma