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If an alternate reality game forcing you to run away from vicious hordes of the undead in order to burn calories and survive a bit long (in the game and real life, I suppose) isn’t enough to quench your thirst for undead action, here’s another brain-eating form of augmented reality for you: “Map of
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I recently interviewed Andrew W.K. for our page over on Pitchfork. In addition to his comments on what he fears most (beasts, obviously), he had a bunch of really enlightening things to say about pinball. What separates a good pinball game from a bad one? Just the layout of that playfield, how the b
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Graphic designer (and KS #0 contributor) Logan Walters wrote to us about a new project. For every 3DS title he buys, he takes a stab at redoing the covers. Clearly, most games are, um, labored in the product marketing dept. so Walters’ reduxes are palette-cleansing. See them all here.
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Not that we needed anymore proof of the popularity of the iPhone, but new research continues the trend of us talking about the popularity of the iPhone. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster issued this report: The results of the extensive survey of 5,600 U.S. high school students show that 34% of surv
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Game designer and KS contributor Pippin Barr continues his war on orthodoxy with his newest title Pongs. Inspired by his experience playing Painstation (which he documented for us), Barr went on to create a variety of new permutations of Pong including Edutainment Pong (“What is the capital of Mauri
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One of the most successful television shows ever made, a constant joke in The Simpsons is the resistance on the creator’s part to actually reveal where in the United States the show is set. That may have changed with a new reveal by Matt Groening, BBC News reports: Mr Groening also said he was inspi
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Artist Benjamin Grosser’s project “Variable Mirror” explores our relation to one of the most fundamental units of digital reality: the pixel. He explains: The pixel is the fundamental unit of digital imaging, a square representation of a single color. Pixels are always the same size, and always arra
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Video I’m normally loathe to post new Minecraft projects (“Hey, we built Ford’s Theatre….in Minecraft!) but sometimes a project comes along that makes you rethink that policy. Behold the Magic Kingdom in block form. No work if you have to park in an adjacent town and walk over. TheRealDuckie explai
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While developers Shock Panda totally jacked Zach Gage’s UI from SpellTower, their Letterbox is a novel permutation on the word game. You’re handed a 10×10 cube that you must deconstruct through THE POWER OF WORDS. But seriously, stringing together letters removes blocks which then makes the interior
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Caine built an elaborate cardboard arcade to build awareness for his scholarship fun. ADORABLE. This better not be an ad. VIDEO [via Kottke]
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Happy Tuesday! If you missed today in gaming news, fear not. Here is everything you need to know: A new legal settlement will require GameStop to warn customers about DLC and potentially refund them. The founder of Commodore passed away last Sunday at the age of 83. BioWare announced its official re
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Despite any potential for brilliance in its hardware, the Microsoft Kinect has often seemed to struggle under the weight of its own cultural ambitions (see the recent ambivalent response to Kinect Star Wars). But in transforming a legendarily complicated custom controller (pictured above) into a ser