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A game that is “good” doesn’t mean it won’t eventually make you want to bash your head into a wall. Adam Harshberger (founder of Pixels or Death) chronicles his failed attempts to find a satiating videogame. I’m level 14 on Guild Wars 2 and I think it’s a great game. But I can see every inch of t
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Two-player games usually give each player their own controller space. But sometimes you want to fight over control, like in Michael Brough’s iPad game O, which looks like air hockey with many colored pucks. Balls appear on the screen in three colours. You score points by collecting a sequence of bal
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Sophie Kan reveals her design process for these portraits: 38 New Yorkers whose portraits I made, using a 3d laser scanner. The result is an identity parade of textured 3d scans of their faces, rotating in and out of the light. The glitchy, fragmented look of these scans results from my misuse of t
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Will this be the norm for much longer? In an industry that seems plagued with the underepresentation of any group besides white males, it’s reassuring to read reports of a little diversification. Walking around the show, playing the games, and networking with peers, it was striking how many people
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James Fallows, eminence grise at The Atlantic, has probably never played XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Today, however, he linked to a real-time cyberattacks map made by the security concern Honeypot (FYI a “honey trap” is a dummy server made to look like exploitable by hackers, in order to catch them). It lo
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The founder of Electronic Arts, the amusingly-named Trip Hawkins, predicts a slow decline for console gaming: It’s going to become a smaller market, and it’s going to be more like a hobby market. You look at airplanes. Most of us just want to be a passenger, but there’s a hobby market for people who
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Art that looks like a cross between Super Metroid and Watchmen can’t go wrong, can it? Uno Moralez doesn’t think so, and his art does more than that. Some of his black and white pieces look like higher res renditions of some Commodore 64 adventure games. You can see more of his work here.
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German electronic producer Boyz Noise’s new video transmogrifies your everyday keyboard into a living breathing, um, person. The spot was co-directed by Patrick Jean, who you might remember, directed the phenomenal short Pixels that had old-school videogame characters invading New York City. – – –
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Ohio State’s halftime show at the game against Nebraska was truly a spectacle to behold: a full ten minutes of their marching band performing video game tributes. I went to Michigan, so understand that praise of OSU is sacrilege, enough to get me burned at the stake in Ann Arbor. Combine an idea fi
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It seems completely unecessary to make an orchestral version, since the synths were my favorite part, but this sneak peak of an upcoming orchestrated Fez soundtrack has me thinking it shouldn’t be too bad.
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Foxconn, the company that makes iPhones, iPads, and most gaming consoles, doesn’t have the best history. In 2010, 14 employees committed suicide due to terrible working conditions. The iOS game In a Permanent Save State imagines their afterlives. Kate Cox at Kotaku reports: Like Molleindustria’s Pho
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Andy Robertson’s son saved diligently for a used Gameboy Micro, convinced that it was the next new handheld from Nintendo. It was released in 2005. I was ready with a whole range of explanations for him once his starry-eyed wonder turned into the realization that this wasn’t in fact a new device at