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How do videogames change from things that we generally think of as distractions and become something closer to film, music, or poetry? One view is that we expand the definition of art, so that it includes disciplines like the sciences. However, as the Heideggerian opinion of Alva Noë, a philosopher
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I can’t speak to how well this newfound form for Nintendo’s classic gaming console works, or how ergonomic the whole “handheld” component might prove to be, but the good folks over at slightlywarped.com have found an interesting way to resolve the compatibility issues older gamers wrestle with. So i
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The data visualization firm Fantom have managed to turn the dull (well, at least to most) topic of population density into a visually interesting map. Continents are made up of dots corresponding to population density. The eastern seaboard is filled with tiny bright balls each representing a dense p
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The International Committee of the Red Cross is considering whether or not the same standards that apply to war crimes should be applicable in games. The logic behind this investigation isn’t to punish gamers, but instead to ask whether or not gaming desensitizes people to violence in a way that mig
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Not fond of goat cheese? Neither is YouTube user STuKKie86, who instead of eating it, used thousands of wheels of cheese and other foul-tasting foodstuff to test the boundaries of Skyrim’s physics system, turning unused inventory into a piece of performance art. Why is it that the only thing that in
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Earlier this week we asked if the new Kinect 2 technology could read our lips. Well, now The Economist is telling us there might be something even more fun, or perhaps more sinister, on the horizon. Using a functional magnetic-resonance imaging (fMRI) machine in unique and interesting ways, the maga
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Michel Ancel, the guy behind the classic platformer Rayman, recently admitted to Gamasutra that he was never that great a fan of Mario: “I will tell you something terrible-I don’t really enjoy playing Mario games. I don’t like gliding, I don’t like its inertia, and I don’t like not being able to giv
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In a move that encapsulates the eccentric candidate, Herman Cain decided to quote Pokemon in his speech Thursday when announcing that he was stepping down as a republican candidate. “I believe these words came from the Pokémon movie,” Cain said during a speech in Atlanta. “Life can be a challenge. L
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File this one under “cool stuff.” This was created by an artist and photographer named Luca Biada. Find his Flickr photostream here. This is just another reminder (that you probably don’t really need) to consider the beauty, majesty and intricate detail of most everything Skyrim. [via] -Drew Millard
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Add this to the list of reasons you may want a dedicated gaming PC. According to a story from the Times Live, male PC gamers might have a legitimate reason to stroke their online egos. They may have more sperm than those of us who get by playing whatever games happen to run on our laptops. Argentin
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Motorola, the same people who brought you such classics as the RAZR and Robby Gordon’s NASCAR car, is hard at work at the next generation of police technology. Their redesign of the police car gives it voice recognition, automatic license plate recognition, remote access to computer systems, and may
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There might not be a more fascinating contemporary NFL player than Tim Tebow, an ostensibly bad quarterback who somehow seems to spend entire games trying to lose, only to not screw up at the last second and have some miracle happen. That Tebow is a staunch member of the evangelical Moral Majority o