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In a highly informative article over at Slate, Chip Walter explains that the reason Homo sapiens outlasted other rival species from the genus Homo, like Neanderthals and those roguish hobbit people (seriously!), is that we have a prolonged childhood which allows us the time for rather frivolous but
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UCLA’s Game Lab is currently showing student work, allowing interested members of the public to come over to the Broad Art Center’s New Wight Gallery and play the creations sprung fresh from the DMA program’s young minds. Among the most interesting and provocative projects is Objectif, a tabletop/ca
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You don’t need to be a soccer fan to appreciate the artistry and humor of 8bit football, a series of 8-bit illustrations of iconic players and historic moments from Matheus Toscano. His work is showcased today as part of the Guardian’s series on “beautiful games”, a collection of artwork that celebr
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Normally, RPGs are about building a party. You start off with, say, a country bumpkin whose destiny is to align seven crystals and save the world from ruin, but first you’ll need to recruit a ragtag group of warriors, white witches, black witches, pink witches, ninjas, robber-barons, bear-wrestlers,
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In a harrowing tidbit of information that filled us and doubtlessly a few of our readers with existential questions, Hidetaka Miyazaki, the director of the widely praised Dark Souls and Demon’s Souls games, told reporters at Edge that he would have a very minimal role, a supervisory one, in the prod
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It’s becoming something of a familiar narrative – a bunch of game industry veterans get together and start working on a dream project. They realize that they have something exciting going for them – so they quit their jobs to focus their efforts on said dream project – and they launch a Kickstarter
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Jennifer Egan’s book A Visit From the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Too bad Egan thinks it could have been better. In a chapter from the upcoming book Why We Write, excerpted on Salon.com, she explains how the public and widespread praise has affected her creative output, go
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Tutorials, those intolerable instances at the start of a game when we surrender our attention to scrupulous instruction on sense-dulling punctilio, aren’t fun. At best a banal evil, and at worst a reason to give up on a game altogether, they have a tendency to knock me out. Though I was initially ex
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As far as slogans for industry-conquering multinational corporations go, Google’s “Don’t be evil” ranks pretty high on the list. It’s concise, impactful, unselfish. The informal motta may be withering some, with suggestions that sharing users’ private data is within a stone’s throw of evil-ish behav
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Women in games can’t seem to keep themselves from getting captured. What gives? – – – Now, a new Tumblr is collecting depictions of the many weird, wacky, and downright disturbing instances where female characters have been kidnapped in games. It goes much further than the corny good vs. evil “save
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It’s confirmed. When kids today grow up and look back at the media they consumed as tots, they’ll think the same thing we did upon reexamining children’s classics such as Alice in Wonderland or the “Pink Elephants on Parade” singalong from Dumbo: “Whoa, that’s some seriously drugged-out stuff!” Don’
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THQ’s auctioning off of its many properties was a bittersweet moment. With renewed energy and a fresh outlook, the hope is that Company of Heroes can thrive under the SEGA company banner, while franchises like Homefront will continue to evolve under the creative direction of Crytek. Then Ubisoft swe