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Watch the endless void of internet content in a real time infographic
It just never stops.
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This app turns Google Glass wearers into no-scoping harbingers of death
Google Glass not only does useful and cool stuff like recording your mindless drive to work while making you look somewhat like a robot, but now it can help you kill things. As you can see in this video of one buff dude aiming a huge semiautomatic gun, Glass can display your crosshair and target so
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Prepare to agonize over moral choices in the Walking Dead pinball game. Yes, really
In one of the most unlikely crossovers yet, Telltale is bringing their trademark zombie apocalypse-inspired moral choices to the pinball table. You won’t just be shooting the silver ball off bumpers to crush the undead then up a ramp to load Kenny’s pickup when the game comes out later this summer.
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You should totally check out Anna Anthropy’s new book
Designer Anna Anthropy—whose games like dys4ia and Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars look at sexuality outside the normative way ordinarily found in games—has a hot-off-the-presses new book; and as usual, the subject is something near and dear to her heart. ZZT the book, courtesy the retro game-focused
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This demented MacBook is only happy if you shoot yourself in the head
Update 10/31/14: Hey Reddit! You can read more about this project and the NYU MFA program here. If you like what you see, consider following us on Twitter or Feedly for more stories from the intersection of games, art, and culture. Yesterday, we wrote up NYU Game Center’s student showcase, and one
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This videogame world degenerates like an old cassette tape
A digital urban myth.
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There you have it. Games are about as addictive as eating a Big Mac
One thing you frequently hear from detractors of games is that they’re addictive, placing Diablo players on the same boat to rehab as smack junkies. But as the psychotherapist Mike Langlois proves with hard empirical evidence, this is totally blown out of proportion. The key piece of evidence for g
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Today in Skyrim mods: This giant killer rooster means business
We all know that adrenaline-soaked dread of being attacked by a snarling bear in Skyrim. But that’s nothing compared to the fear of being pecked to death by this giant clucking rooster, derp, modded into the game by a Reddit user. But relax! It seems all this male domestic fowl can do is crow and ch
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You guys watched a freakish amount of esports last year
We totally get that the Internet is a fantastic place for binging DOTA 2 matches and all, but got-damn did you people consume a lot of it in 2013. A new report from IHS Technology, people who track this sort of thing, has found that a cumulative amount of 2.4 billion hours were streamed to your eyeh
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"Virtual reality is an antisocial tech," Grand Theft Auto publisher says
Obviously, virtual reality is a pretty hot topic in games these days. We dedicated an entire issue to it. But now the head honcho at Take-Two, publisher of GTA and a whole stable of quality games, has put a bit of a damper on the optimism. Speaking to Bloomberg, CEO Strauss Zelnick said that donnin
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In our favorite Obama story yet, the President shouts out The Witcher
Say what you will about President Obama, he is currently the world’s most prominent ambassador for the cultural legitimacy of videogames. That’s because on his recent visit to Poland, motherland of Witcher dev house CD Projekt RED, he gave a tip of the hat to everyone’s favorite action-heavy, decisi
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Here is a metroidvania that lets you explore the gnarled passageways of adolescence
Occasionally as gross as it seems.