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video Death is the final mystery of human existence, according to Heavy Rain creator David Cage. His newest game, Beyond, was announced at Sony’s E3 media briefing and purports to be a parable about the mysterious powers an encounter with the afterlife can leave a person with. Beyond was introduced
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The Smithsonian exhibit on videogames renewed some of the discussion about what art means. For some kids visiting the exhibit, the discussion helped them to think critically, perhaps for their first time, about what it means for something to be art or not. One precocious ten-year-old, Ryan Puthumana
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The E3 stampede continued, but we were able to snare these news stories from the pack: –Nintendo announces third party games for Wii U, including Mass Effect 3, Assassin’s Creed 3, Batman: Arkham City, Scribblenauts Unlimited and more. –Dead Island Riptide, a sequel to last year’s open world zombie
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Peter Molyneux does not seem to be afraid of starting over again. The iconic game developer recently left his vaunted position as Creative Director for Microsoft’s Game Studio’s Europe to found a new company called 22Cans. At E3 this year, the company announced its first game, a metaphysical iOS puz
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Remember that viral video back in 2006 where the WoW raid is getting ready and one guy just charges straight in, yelling “Leroy Jenkins!”? It’s been made into a short film about a bank heist. It has a little less chatter and a lot of the same lines, creating the same uncomfortable feeling that someo
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E3 is this week. You probably noticed. Videogame makers are rushing to capture more and more of your attention. But maybe that’s not such a good thing. One of my fave science writers Jonah Lehrer has a defense of day-dreaming in the New Yorker, looking at several studies that about the benefits of l
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Microsoft developed the Kinect with video games in mind, but hackers and hobbists had other ideas. When the Kinect was first released, Adafruit, a New York electronics company, offered $3,000 for whoever could crack the PC drivers first. The incentive worked and immediately after the open source Kin
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Screw the Kinect voice commands. Screaming is all the rage. Chris O’Reilly at UCLA’s Talk Therapy is absurd: In Talk Therapy, two players compete by screaming at each other. Speed up or slow down your piece, and yell at the exact moment it lines up with your competitor’s. Ok. Sure. Video
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Hastening the transformation of games into platforms unto themselves, EA announced Battlefield 3 Premium, a subscription service for the first person shooter that will give customers access to five major DLC packs as well as “deeper personalization options and advanced features.” Each of the expansi
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Italian street artist Combo playfully combines real-life celebrities with cartoon ones in the streets of Paris. One of his most recent works shows Muhammad Ali taking down Street Fighter‘s Ryu. Which one would win in a real fight? We’ll leave it to the fanpeeps to settle that one. Also, it’s unclear