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Make beautiful chin music playing Tekken with this keyboard controller
Student Geoffrey Guterl has made an electric keyboard that moves players onscreen.
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Don’t look for Left 4 Dead’s AI Director in Evolve
When Turtle Rock announced that their next game was Evolve, a co-op first-person shooter with ugly aliens in it, it was generally assumed that they were doing a spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead, the co-op first-person shooter with ugly zombies, which they developed with Valve. But you know what th
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Radiohead releases strange new music in their strange new mobile game
Today, Radiohead surprised everyone with a free mobile “app” called PolyFauna in which you walk around a desolate atmosphere while messing around with your phone’s features and, of course, listening to Radiohead. I’m just gonna call a spade a spade and say it’s a game. Here are some of the game-lik
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How Catlateral Damage constructs tidy living rooms for house cats to destroy
If, like me, you are the proud owner of formerly stray cats, you know the havoc they can cause to a well-kept house: the shredded upholstery of the couch, the spilled house plants, the random toilet paper roll attacks. While a nightmare for me, this must be thrilling for my awful cats. That’s the co
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This chart explains why Threes! is so painlessly brilliant
Like many of you, I am completely addicted to Threes!, the lovely new heir to the Drop7 and TripleTown fortune. And by fortune, I mean all of my time. David Wolinsky’s review hit the nail on the head, but as a strap-hanging commuter of New York City, I can’t help but feel like there’s something spec
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Feed your curiosity in Weird Egg & Crushing Finger
Playing God or godly playing?
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IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing AI is off to Africa to solve pandemics
Once trained to trounce the best players on the planet at Jeopardy!, IBM’s artificially-intelligent supercomputer Watson is heading to Africa to mine data that could help solve problems like disease and water scarcity. Although IBM has had difficulty marketing Watson outside of cancer centers, it’s
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Watch the history of videogame graphics from the perspective of a cube
The cube gets no respect. Well, until now. YouTube video producers The Hamster Alliance have edited together this wonderful montage of various videogames that feature the versatile cube. From Mario’s question block to the collapsing florescent walls of Super Hexagon, our four-sided friend has played
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Skullgirls is back, still has girls with skulls
Back in December, Skullgirls was unceremoniously yanked without warning from the PlayStation and Xbox stores. On Tuesday, for PlayStation Network at least, it’s back again, renamed Skullgirls Encore. The fighting game for fighting game enthusiasts by fighting game enthusiasts was originally publishe
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"Fart on a canine enemy while in Gnome form" and other absurd South Park achievements
If you’re planning on playing the new South Park RPG and are uptight about spoilers, or about life in general, stop right here. But for everyone else, the achievements for the game are too damn funny. Not unexpectedly, there’s plenty of farting involved. There is essentially an achievement for any t
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Blizzard will now pay for you to play esports at the college level
We’re one step closer to realizing everyone’s childhood dream of getting a scholarship for playing videogames, as Blizzard has begun a campaign to promote and fund collegiate esports. The way it works is this: the Starcraft developer incentivizes campuses who sign up for their Membership Milestone P
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The Museum of Parallel Art turns art appreciation into a bonding exercise
Bringing siblings together since, um, 2014.