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Dig into the surreal sands of Mason Lindroth’s Beachcomber
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Sony’s augmented reality tech is getting scarily realistic
Although Sony is betting big on VR, the engineers at Sony Japan, who apparently wear white lab coats, continue to chisel away at perfecting that other reality: augment reality. Since the days of the EyeToy, the giant tech corporation has been continuously improving their camera software that lets yo
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Huzzah! The X Games are giving esports a trial run in June
The X Games will be hosting an inaugural esports tournament when they come through Austin on June 6-8, spotlighting pro gamers alongside the likes of professional skaters and motorcrossers. They’ll even be awarded X Game medals. See, Bryant Gumbel: we told you that esports were cool. The move makes
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This game puts the audience into the game of streamers. Too bad they might be wearing a bikini
Good news: Akiba’s Trip 2 for PlayStation 4 offers an inventive way to put the audience into the game of a person who is streaming. Bad news: The subtitle of the game is Undead & Undressed, the combat system involves stripping the clothes off foes in broad daylight, and it seems you have a half-dece
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Watch packing peanuts turn into high art
As you can see in this wonderful, foam-swirling installation, one man’s packing peanuts are another man’s art. The piece “36 Ventilators, 4.7m3 Packing Chips,” showing now through July 11 in Switzerland, creates the illusion when viewed from outside that the Art Museum Lugano is awhirl with packing
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Nintendo’s Iwata talks making fun, non-videogame-related appliances
Remarks by Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata have again made us wonder what kind of bat-shit crazy mystery device the Japanese gaming giant is working on. Interviewing with a Japanese outlet, he strongly suggested that their secretive “quality of life” project, which they announced back in January,
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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
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Beat off and feel sad in the depression sim Sleepy Time
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Swim through this glitching, noisy music visualizer
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A postmodern god game where your minions go searching for a supreme being
There are god games and then there are god games. The Universim, which had its coming out party on Kickstarter the other day, isn’t content with laying down the law for a whistle stop of yokels. Even simulating the growth of a planet from human-less animal kingdoms to modern civilizations with airpl
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Newest update establishes Vampire: The Masquerade as cult-classic-of-the-forever
After ten years of werewolf attacks on urbane vampire covens, the little known but much-loved RPG Vampire: The Masquerade, Bloodlines has received a healthy update. Patch 9.0 (yes, 9.0!) adds a bountiful number of improvements, despite the fact that the developer Troika officially went out of busine
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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,