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It was a crisp, clear day in March, and I was walking briskly to the Westin Hotel, trying to keep warm in the shadows of high buildings on 3rd, between Mission and Market. I had an arrangement to meet “a guy with a big beard and wearing a cowboy hat.” I knew little else. This bearded stranger was Sh
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After underwhelming holiday sales and analysts predicting tough times ahead for the Wii U, Nintendo has announced their official release list for the first quarter of 2013. And the news won’t do much to dispell the doomsayers. Is Nintendo in for a bumpy ride? – – – Four major first-party Wii U games
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I see what you did there. (Spotted in Nordhausen, Germany.)
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Reus is a latin word that means “guilty” or “culpable”, and it’s a curious name for the forthcoming god-game from independent studio Abbey Games. What are you guilty of? Perhaps we can take the word broadly to mean “responsible”. This makes sense, because in Reus, you play as a omnipresent titan, re
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The strange thing about touch is that it’s all abstraction. You’re translating physical behaviors into digital ones. Never is this more apparently than when we’re playing games, of course. When you throw you’re angry bird or cut the rope, your indicating to your mobile phone that you want one action
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The strange thing about touch is that it’s all abstraction. You’re translating physical behaviors into digital ones. Never is this more apparently than when we’re playing games, of course. When you throw you’re angry bird or cut the rope, your indicating to your mobile phone that you want one action
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Over the past two years or so, bullying has become a national news, Last summer, 16-year-old Brandon Elizares committed suicide after a string of threatening text messages. In a highly publicized 2010 case, 18-year-old Tyler Clementi lept off the George Washington Bridge after a roommate secretly ca
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John Thorne at the Atlantic has a terrific writeup on the burgeoning esports scene in the fractured North African nation. It’s your daily reminder that gaming can be a powerful agent for social good. The Libyan gamers themselves face major challenges related to the lack of digital infrastructure in
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-On the heels of Obama’s announcement’s to pursue research on the connection of games to violence, Michael Abbott makes an appeal.
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The charmingly-named redditor “hairyhaggis” started a thread earlier today in r/gaming that would make many an MFA instructor swell with pride: “Describe a game from the point of view of one of its NPCs. Every else has to guess what game and NPC.” His example: [I] “Go on adventure with robot dog and
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Time was when most games were blips and squares. Then colorful sprites gave characters a more defined, less abstract look. Then came Pit-Fighter. In the early ’90s, the arcade fighting game from Midway came out and eschewed the cartoony look of classic brawlers like Kung Fu or Final Fight. Pit-Fight
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Here are the games that the Writers Guild of America nominated yesterday for the outstanding achievement in writing for video games: 007 Legends Assassin’s Creed III Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two Halo 4 Uncharted: Golden Abyss In all seriouness: is this a jo