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The robots know what we’re feeling now
Robots can now read frowny faces.
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Harmonix envisions a 1990s futurescape in A City Sleeps
I envision a short-hair-era Angelina Jolie gliding in on a hoverboard, clad in Chemical Brothers-orange cargo pants, to deliver this idea to the minds of Harmonix Studios. Their surprise announcement of A City Sleeps is a gnarly throwback to all things ’90s: Treasure-style shooters, a character name
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Awesome scientists trying to figure out if we live in a hologram
Most people will not argue with you when you say that we live in a digital society. But the world we live in might actually be a lot more digital than we know. It might be digital to the point where the whole thing is actually just a really complicated hologram. That’s not a very complicated and unn
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Think daytime TV is weird? Try flicking through Lullaby’s channels
An eternal question, answered: “what’s on the other channel?”
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Watch this augmented reality game make London’s Barbican Estate an epic playspace
Can games help re-appropriate underused urban spaces?
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Here comes Miegakure to explain the 4th dimension
Miegakure is one of those magical games that seems to come out from the ether and pierce the veil of our mundane existences. That’s not an exaggeration: Miegakure looks that good. It’s even less of an exaggeration when you consider that one of the main appeals to the game is that you can actually pi
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Heartwarming 50s television spot explains why games are good for you
The evidence is in.
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Human Harp lends grace to industrial spaces
Di Mainstone is an artist whose work bridges the gap between sculpture and the human body. She entwines the two, creating wearable, touchable, playable apparatuses that range from pulsing Cronenberg-style bioforms to a neck-mounted motion-based instrument that transforms its wearer into a one-woman
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Exploring the hidden worlds inside old cassette tapes
What memories do cassette tapes bring back? Prepare to enter them “purposely scratching up the tape and then re-entering the world as it degenerates”
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Three games to play this week
Three videogames to play this week.
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Amazon’s Twitch purchase isn’t just about games. It’s about public consumption.
You are what you buy what you play.
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Xenoblade Chronicles X will be five times bigger than its already-huge predecessor
To a small but very vocal group of people, 2012’s Xenoblade Chronicles was like an all-you-can-eat buffet in the middle of a desert. After the JRPG’s much-ululated decline in popularity and relevance, it was a sprawling, goofy, giving game, with vistas that just continued opening up, revealing new p