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Makeb is a terrestrial planet with a type-1 atmosphere (breathable), and according to Wookiepedia, was invaded by the fearsome Hutt cartel during the second Galactic war. Fair enough. It’s also the only planet in Star Wars: The Old Republic, on which homosexuality exists. Yes, that’s right, BioWare
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Remember Joyland? The 30 million-dollar, 600,000 square foot WoW-themed, unlicensed amusement park in Changzhou? Of course you do! Well, now that the park has been up and running for a year and a half, what does it look like? Like this! Mists of Panderia indeed!
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-Redditor Beast_Pot_Pie poses the question we’ve all been too afraid to ask.
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In our shared popular narrative of the console wars, it’s axiomatic that the Sega Genesis peripherals Sega CD and 32X helped rig the charges on the Sega console brand before the bungled American Saturn launch in 1995 destroyed it completely. What if that’s not true? A pretty persuasive piece at revr
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Ian Bogost has the best piece I’ve read on video games and violence in the weeks since the Newtown shootings. Writing about the current controversy over the game industry’s involvement in Joe Biden’s gun-violence task force, Bogost makes the arugment that politicians have no interest in discussing g
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No, it’s not just a sweet daydream. It’s real, and it’s in Sweden: An international competition for city planning inspired instructors at the Viktor Rydberg secondary school to make freeform construction game Minecraft a compulsory part of the curriculum. About 180 students around 13 years old have
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Sigh. That’s even worse than 2012 in creativity-starved Hollywood; two of the top ten grossing movies this year were originals (Brave and Hunger Games) and not sequels/prequels/reboots, etc. Even as critics and bloggers name small and independent games their top games of 2012, it’s important to keep
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Chris Kohler over at GameLife has a great post about three of the best “homebrew” NES titles, new games for the original Nintendo built by enthusiasts who simply can’t leave 8-bit behind: Nomolos is the least polished of these three new games, with floaty controls and simple artwork. That said, it’s
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-Frank O’Connor, Halo franchise director, on Halo 4, the first game in the series not to be made by Bungie.
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From the rising popularity of hot yoga to controversy over kids doing the sun salutation in middle school, the two thousand year-old ritual from India is having a moment. So we thought it would be a perfect time to visit one of the most twisted exercise games around, the 2012 Indiecade finalist Zomb
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MAKE Magazine caught up at CES with Sifteo co-founder David Merill and chatted with the man behind the wireless digital gaming blocks about taking a product developed in the DIY community to the mass market: We talk a lot about how the barriers to game development are lower than ever. It may also be
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Last fall, I was lured to a rustic cottage in the picturesque Hudson River Valley for a “work retreat”. Little did I know, the plan my colleagues had in store for me had little do with work, and everything to do with repeatedly bludgeoning me at Super Stickman Golf until I felt a terrible mix of sha