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Spurred to action by The Corrections author Jonathan Franzen, Tim Clark takes a stab in the New York Review of Books at unravelling the idea that we need stories as Franzen maintains. Clark shoots for the self and argues that stories bring out a greater understanding of our own identities by locatin
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April fool’s is over, this is news you can trust: – BioWare is really excited about using the Kinect in the future after their voice integration with Mass Effect 3. – Worms: Revolution has been announced for the third quarter of 2012. – Planetside 2, the upcoming MMO-FPS has released a video showing
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Slashfilm‘s Germain Lussier recently wrote about Mondo, an art collective that sprouted from the Alamo Drafthouse, a small series of cinemas famous for their treatment of the filmgoing expeience. Mondo is a group that has designed some of the most gorgeous collectible film posters over the past few
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One of the better ways I’ve seen to support your team. [Via Reddit]
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Tristan Louis, of TNL.net, has written an article discussing the ways that hacking and gaming culture have been perceived over time. The two groups have tended to get along rather well over time but now more than ever, they are both becoming accepted by the greater culture at large as well. The reas
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MIT’s GAMBIT Game Lab will be holding the first ever Hokra tournament this weekend. The game premiered last year at NYU’s No Quarter event and has since become known as a great e-sport to those with access to it. Inspired by the soccer videogame FIFA, two teams of two players dodge, kick and score i
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So PAX East is this weekend in Boston. We’ll be there selling mags, tees, and other goodies. Come say hello! We’ll be at the Kickstarter Pavillion.
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Al Lowe, the creator of the pervy classic Leisure Suit Larry, has taken the lounge lizard’s hunt to Kickstarter. With a $500,000 ask, Lowe is ending a self-imposed hiatus and frankly, the news isn’t surprising to us! We interviewed Lowe for the Intimacy Issue where he outlined some of the travails f
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Video Designed two years ago at the Global Game Jam in Sydney, GNILLEY is game where you tell — at everything. Perhaps developers for the Kinect should take notice. There are a lot of angry people in this world that demand absolution. Developer Glen Forrester is raising money on his Kickstarter to m
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The Kaiser Family Foundation released a report titled Generation M2 on the media consumption habits of those 8 to 18-year-olds. The study outlines how kids spend more than 50 hours a week and much of that time is spent on multiple devices in what they are calling “media muti-tasking.” What surprised
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Video Call 911. [via Simon]
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Video In case you missed this over the weekend, Google took the cake for April Fools’ Day by launching Google Maps for the NES. (We’re still partial to our joke, but hey, we’re not #1 in Internet search….yet)