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The developers at Media Molecule have a penchant for texture. Their breakout franchise LittleBigPlanet oozes with tactile goodness, so much so that they practically invited a toy campaign all on their own. A couple of years ago, art director Kareem Ettouney regaled me with stories about the joys of
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-Todd VenDerWerff explains his newfound fascination with the physical side of gaming. Might be we recommend Guts of Glory or Cards Against Humanity?
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That’s the case made by Chad Kilgore, a designer at Day 1 Studios, today at Gamasutra. Gardner hypothesized that human intelligence was not reducible to single metrics like IQ; rather, our intelligence is multiple and broad, spanning seven categories: spatial, linguistic mathematical-logical, bodily
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Speed Demos Archive, the place where gaming’s most impressive athletes demonstrate their mastery, is currently holding Awesome Games Done Quick, a week-long fundraising event, the proceeds of which are entirely donated to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Speed runners will attempt more than 100 games
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The United States, population 315,129,543, spent about 17 billion dollars on gaming last year. China, population 1,319,175,330 (that’s four times as big) spent more than half that on videogames in 2012 (9.7 billion), according to The Next Web. That makes China, with its urban migration trends and ec
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Well, it looks like we’re going to get a movie based on Team Ico’s last game before we get their next one. Seth Lochhead, who wrote the pretty-good-not-great teen assassin movie Hanna, will write the script, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Josh Trank, who directed the great-great teen superpowe
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In honor of the silver annivesary of Hironobu Sakaguchi’s baby, a group of Final Fantasy fansites banded together to create a wonderful tribute: a one-off digital magazine. The project includes retrospectives for each game in the series, profiles of important developers who have worked on the games,
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The fine folks at WSJ Live asked me to walk through my game picks for this month. I chose Spaceteam, Hundreds, and Soda Drinker Pro. No surprises there!
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–Ben Murch, cofounder of Rodeo games, on the just-announced Nvidia handheld.
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Endgame: Syria, a simulation/strategy game in which you play as the rebels in the two-year-old uprising in that country, has been rejected by Apple for distribution on their app store, according to the game’s makers. A press release from Auroch Digital, Endgame‘s developer, states that the game was
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A couple years ago, I was invited by the fine folks at ITU-Copenhagen to give a talk for the Nordic Game Jam. I’d never been to a game jam before and obviously, the chance to get to Denmark was incentive enough, but what I saw was amazing. Aside from the first play session of Johann Sebastian Joust
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Theresa Christy has the coolest job in the world. As a mathematician for Otis Elevator company, she’s spent more than a quarter-century tweaking how things go up. She also knows that the longest we’ll wait for a door to close is 20 seconds, Japan has the smoothest rides, and the average American rid