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It’s all fun and games until someone falls into a liquidity trap. As the American presidential election intensifies around the debate over how to lower unemployment and save the economy, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is offering players a chance to experience firsthand just how difficult
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While the trial between Too Human developer Silicon Knights and Unreal Engine house Epic Games is just getting underway, a North Carolina judge ruled that the value of the damages at issue will be limited to $1 per claim. The case was originally filed in 2007. Silicon Knights had licensed Unreal En
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Another day without a Dreamcast 2 announcement. Console yourself with the day’s other news stories instead: -EA laid off some BioWare Austin employees after Star Wars: The Old Republic subscribers dropped from 1.7 million to 1.3 million. -Google turns its Japanese site into a giant Moog simulator. -
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video As part of a plan to simultaneously modernize its services and cut costs, Britain’s National Health Service has announced a test program to use videogames to guide the recovery of stroke patients. Since it’s time-consuming and expensive to have patients come into the doctor’s office for physi
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video In an effort to keep its churning Call of Duty community sated, Activision has tossed a new scrap of meat into the lion’s den. “Face Off” mode is the central part of Modern Warfare 3‘s new DLC collection, out today, which allows joystick gladiators to grapple with one another in intimately de
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In the early 80s, Parker Brothers published a series of books on their arcade properties including our favorite foul-mouthed androgyne Q*Bert. It was one of many spin-offs from that time period that included frisbees, sleeping bags, and so on. [via OTL Gaming]
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Creating mods was once a central part of game culture, growing a vibrantly experimental subculture around jokes, experiments, and whole new types of play. In the last decade there has been a huge migration of PC developers coming into the safe but limiting arms of console manufacturers. Still, a nu
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It’s been almost two years since Bungie’s last game, Halo: Reach, was released and details about their new games have been scant. But the studio’s plans were inadvertently made public this week by documents released as part of the on-going legal battle with Call of Duty co-creators Jason West and V
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video To coincide with the release of the teaser trailer for 007: Skyfall, Sam Mednes’ turn at helm of the James Bond machine, Activision released a trailer for the Bond game it will release this fall to accompany the film. 007 Legends doesn’t actually have anything to do with Skyfall but is instea
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Three years ago Jason Rohrer signed a deal to make his first game for a traditional publisher. The man bend the now iconic Passage (a game that seems to have made everybody cry, at some point), reached an agreement with Majesco to make an ambitious political game for the Nintendo DS. Diamond Trust o
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Our friends over at Pitchfork have directed us to handiework of YouTube user QuintonSung who has lovingly interpreted Kid A and OK Computer into the closing credits for an NES Final Fantasy title. Video Track listing: 0:00 – Airbag 4:36 – Paranoid Android 10:49 – Subterranean Homesick Alien 15:10 –
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Here’s the news for today: – Rovio is planning on building theme park Angry Birds Land in China. – Leap 3D is a new competitor in the motion control space and outdoes Kinect by 200 times the accuracy. – Overkill Software is partnering with Valve to blend Payday: The Heist and Left 4 Dead. – The Wii