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We’ve all been there. The hiring process at a new job is typically a gauche, banal affair. There is lengthy paperwork fill out. Contracts to go over. An icy rep from H.R. casting a watchful eye. The shameful revelation that you’ve forgotten your pen and have to ask to borrow one. Then, there’s the i
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It’s unclear who would buy an $840 Master Chief lamp. I can’t imagine that thing looking over me, judging me while I sleep. The Chief sees all, knows all. But Michael McLane spent more than 40 hours putting this fella together.
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If you haven’t read Joshua Davis’ epic profile of software-pioneer-turned-narco-obsessive-turned-alleged-murderer, you should go do that right now. The whole thing is surreal as John McAfee flees the United States to avoid potential litigation then starts his own pharmaceutical lab and then has craz
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I know you have this problem. You’ve downloaded a piece of wonderful pixel art from, say, Rich Grillotti on the Russian black pixel market. You have guests coming over to open that heady new bottle of red you picked up while in Nice. The evening is prepped to be a wonderful time. Only this precious
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2D puzzle-platformers were practically an indie go-to joke for a while. We were at the point, maybe a year or two ago, where you couldn’t sneeze at a game developer meet-up without stumbling onto someone’s conversation about their puzzle-based hop-and-bopper about water/acid/gravity/the laws of ther
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Big-budget games aren’t necessarily known for their thematic subtlety. I dislike that notion as much as the next narratology-jargon loving person, but the big guns, bigger explosions, and exaggerated action hero stereotypes that populate the majority of AAA games tend to confirm, rather than dispel
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With all of the hoopla over Nintendo’s generous heaping of announcements earlier this week, an upcoming game’s arrival on western shores has been shoved aside for more pressing matters, like whether Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker‘s original toon-shading looks better than the upcoming HD remake (answer:
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In a splendid interview over at VentureBeat, Cliff Bleszinski, the brains behind the Gears of War series and bosom-bud of Ice-T, broached the all-American topic of football. When asked what games he was currently playing, Cliffy responded, “I’m actually watching football,” going on to say that both
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Games that exist online, that is, your Eves and Planetsides, present an unique challenge to game preservationists. They will disappear without a trace when their popularity dies. Glitch, a quirky MMO that shuttered in December, is very much worth remembering. (Ironically, the idiosyncrasies that ma
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Activision’s mega-popular atrocity of a military shooter, has joined the ranks of pork rinds, Facebook, and Osama bin Laden. It has been banned in the nation of Pakistan. According to a snippily-worded circular distributed by the APCDACTM (that’s the All Pakistan CD, DVD,
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Michael Johansson is a Swedish artist concerned with putting the pieces back together. His show Still Lifes, presented at The Flat in Milan, Italy until February 23rd, consists of numerous cubes all made of suitcases, safety-deposit boxes, and giant legos. Stockholm-based online magazine designboom
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It’s breaking news today – Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has announced an end to the policy that officially bans women from combat, on the heels of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU. It’s a pretty major victory for gender equality in America – especially considering the reality that women are active