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Enough with the post-apocalypse. What about the pre-apocalypse?
A lot of games are about saving the world, but Eco might actually do it.
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Bloody Histories, Dangerous Communities: Educators’ Ethical Responsibilities Teaching Games
The moral dilemma of teaching with games.
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A Minecraft competition hopes to reimagine Shakespeare’s final resting place
Shakescraft hopes to reconstruct the playwright’s demolished home with videogames Can Minecraft help us restore Shakespeare demolished home? How Minecraft can help complete the most significant Shakespearean restoration project ever A Shakespearean restoration project turns to Minecraft to help r
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Where does Minecraft end?
A quest to the edge of an endless world.
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How No Man’s Sky paints 18 quintillion worlds with an algorithmic brush
“Funnel them into a box of ‘maths’.”
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Tate Worlds mines classic artwork for Minecraft inspiration
Jump into paintings, sort of.
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Mineblock Kickstarts its way to a kid-friendly Minecraft experience
Griefers be gone!
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Wander through a forsaken pixelscape in Gaia Gestalt
We’ve traversed these blocky fields before—in Proteus, of course, and Minecraft, but also Eidolon, even The Long Dark. Still, the new procedurally generated world from Ed Curtis-Sivess holds allure: you can see the world being drawn, the horizon just a stone’s throw away, for one. We move from brigh
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Mineblock envisions a troll-free Minecraft universe
Earlier this year, eight-year-old Jivan Armen logged onto a Minecraft server in his home in east Vancouver to start building something new, as millions of his peers do each day. Jivan loves roller coasters and had begun constructing one to transport sheep throughout his world. Then disaster struck.
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Okay our actual favorite story ever: Notch pays $46k for rare Aphex Twin album
Notch is just awesome. The creator of Minecraft has paid an outlandish sum of $46,300 at auction for an extremely rare, unreleased pressing of an album by electronic music pioneer Aphex Twin. The album first had emerged on an online auction site. The Internet freaked out because it was never-before-
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Watch ten minutes of Quadrilateral Cowboy’s perspective-twisting mind-jacking
Quadrilateral Cowboy has gone through quite the metamorphosis over the course of development, as we can see in this footage of Brendon Chung showing off the new body-swapping, Betamax-hacking, entering-the-Matrix gameplay. Originally the game was due out in 2013 and was far less ambitious. It was o
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Notch’s new one is either satire of Steam Early Access, or just a game about horses
Cliffhorse—Notch’s new horse-trotting sim where all you do is run over green hills—is perhaps a riveting work of irony ridiculing lazy, unfinished games on Steam Early Access. Or maybe the Minecraft creator just has a thing for horses walking sideways on cliffs. Either way, it’s a new game from Notc