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Those ingenuous engineers at Valve have invented a mouthpiece that could make games more accessible to disabled players. The creatively named “Tongue Mouse” is a mouse that lets you control a reticule with the tip of your tongue, as its inventor Ben Krasnow explains in the video below. However, Kras
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When the 2014 contracts fell into the eager hands of League of Legends pros, they noticed a curious clause in it. They had been prohibited from streaming themselves playing games made by Riot’s competitors. At the top of the list was Valve’s DOTA 2, that other multiplayer online battle arena game. R
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When I heard that Virginia Tech students were performing an opera in Minecraft, my reaction could be described as befuddled dissonance. My logical brain thought: What the hell, a Minecraft opera? And the part of my brain that knows and loves the internet thought: Of course, there is a Minecraft oper
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Yesterday Tech Crunch published a corporate profile on the new wave of uber-successful mobile games coming out of Finland, including the popular Clash of Clans, and a game I forget the name of—something to do with miffed red canaries? In any case, the key to success for these filthy rich Fins, says
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With the stylish and Swedish-made Rymdkapsel coming out for the PC, its composer Salkinitzor found it the right opportunity to release a (very) limited edition cassette of the game’s 30 minute soundtrack. It’s a nice-looking tape and a listenable album. If you’re wondering why a cassette, this is a
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Real-life is even stupider than Call of Duty
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You can patch DARPA’s buggy software by playing these brainy games
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It involves lots of YouTube.
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We want a videogame Fugazi.
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Your tablet and phone is about to get adventure-ified.
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We we’re catching up on our magazine backlog over the holiday, and came across this amazing story in the New Yorker from a few weeks back. The yearly technology issue had a profile on Eliot Higgins, a tenacious blogger who used his internet savvy to prove that Syria had indeed used chemical weapons.
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In the latest Harper’s, Ben Lerner describes 20th century art as a wave of vandalism. If that’s the case, then the graphic designer Louisa Gagliardi stays the course with her series of monochromatic illustrations entitled FPS. She has tagged works of well-known graphic artists such as Ellsworth Kell