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The New Yorker recently posted their list of seven precepts that should govern any good Muppet movie. They are as follows: The Muppets should play themselves. The Muppets should have bigger parts than the humans. You need great cameos. Among the Muppets, Kermit and Piggy must have top billing. Go ea
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Rizwan Virk, CEO of Tap Fish developers Gameview Studios, fumbles with his claim that his company’s free-to-play design for their game teaches children “responsibility” when Aasif Mandvi puts him face-to-face with an angry parent and a maxed-out credit card. Oops. Watch the video here. –Yannick LeJa
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Forget barbies, beanie babies or Lovecraftian Pokemon Dolls. Jun Axup has some adorable DNA dolls to teach your kids the basics of chemical bonding. I started Biochemies.com two years ago to promote science education. It features images that convey biology and chemistry-related concepts through pers
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Photographer Teo Ormund-Skeaping’s most recent project Particle Progress takes us to a special place – one situated right in between Bright Falls and Silent Hill. [pic: heyhotshot]
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This Pacman-themed Christmas tree in Madrid is the coolest way to blend gaming and the Holiday season since putting a Santa hat on Mario. [video: clipset]
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Telegraph reported on a talk given by The Sense of Ending author Julian Barnes, where he equated the structure of a novel to America’s favorite desert armored mammal: He compared a novel to an armadillo an animal with an exoskeleton and an internal one. The exoskeleton, he explained, was the overa
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“Walk around the club, fuck er’rbody!” These are the immortal words that announced Treal Lee and Prince Rick to the world, via their single “Thowed Off (Fuck Errbody).” Treal Lee discussed his favorite Pokémon (Bulbasaur and/or Squirtle), who’s the better gamer between he and his rap partner (it dep
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Chris Avellone has developed some of the most acclaimed and influential RPGs of the late ’90s and early 2000s-Planescape: Torment and installments in the Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, and original Fallout series. Many credit these games with paving the way for recent successful RPGs such as Dragon Ag
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A post by Brainy Gamer Michael Abbott recently pointed out a key difference between a videogames’ story and its narrative. Abbott recalled a keynote given by Rich Lemarchand of Naughty Dog at IndieCade. “I play Minecraft narratively,” [Lemarchand] said, seeing the game as a kind of “Lego I Am Legend
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Digital media has hit some important milestones in the past few weeks. Modern Warfare 3 shattered all entertainment industry sales records recently by generating over $1 billion in revenue in just over two weeks. On the opposite end of the spectrum, last Wednesday, the millionth mobile app was relea
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In yet another wrinkle in the perpetual cavalcade of weird that is the race for the GOP Presidential nomination, Huffington Post reports that professional actor/noted crazy person Gary Busey has officially endorsed Newt Gingrich for President. Good luck, Newt! While his name’s in the news, we might
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Michael Coriano’s Punch-Out themed prints bring us back to the days when Mike Tyson’s borderline-psychotic persona made for a great videogame boss, instead of just being terrifying. [img: CMYK Projects]