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A segment of a larger Spin interview with Tyler, the Creator of Odd Future offered insight into his influences: When did you get your first skateboard? I was 12, I got a Blind. I had no one to skate with so it took me awhile to learn shit. Did you learn from watching videos? Pro Skater 4. It’s a fuc
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What do you do when your girlfriend cheats on you with a guy who really likes Alkaline Trio? Well, you could cry about it, or you could sell the engagement ring you got for her on eBay and use the money to buy a really heavy, hyper-realistic suit of armor, just like Master Chief’s in Halo. Eventual
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Have you ever really noticed how doors govern out interactions within a space? Points of entry are something we never really think about until we don’t have any-remember when you played The Sims as a kid and accidentally boxed one of your Sims into a room without any doors? Having two entrances can
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According to a recent study, kids with lazy eye who played one hour of videogames a day, using only their weaker eye, were very likely to improve their vision. According to one of the participants, “Playing the shooting games while using just my weaker eye was hard at first, but after a few months
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Colin McGowan over at the Guardian raises the question of whether videogames can ever get sports right. His primary target is on sound glitches with the commentary, but his criticism runs deeper. So when Alan Smith praises a striker’s poise after the ball has flown over crossbar, he shouts ‘You’re p
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The walkable, large outdoor sculpture Tiger & Turtle Magic Mountain is currently in construction on the Heinrich Hildebrand Höhe in Duisburg Wanheim (D). It overtops the plateau with the artificially heaped-up mountain by 21m | 23yd so the visitor can rise by more than 45m | 49yd above the level o
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Researchers are readying augmented contact lenses that project images before your eyes—Adam Jensen style. While potentially not as cool looking as the Deus Ex hero’s Oakley-esque implants, at least people won’t wonder why you are wearing sunglasses indoors. The technology could allow wearers to rea
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Somebody once said that comedy is about making the important seem small, and about making the small seem important. Games show up a lot in comedies because it’s easy to make the characters get worked up about something that’s not really that important. Despite the fact that these games are supposed
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We all have our ideal game. Now there’s a company who can make that a reality. Participating in the creation of one’s video games is a natural step for the genre,” Mr. Bounane said. “It has reached a level of maturity and refinement light years away from the very first platform games. Abdel Bounane
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Happy holidays from Kill Screen! Let’s eat to a full health bar. Here’s what we’re thankful for: Jamin Warren: I’m thankful for children. Richard Clark: I’m thankful that we’re not held responsible for the mistakes of our childhood (and that I never got on national TV when I was a kid). Jason Johnso
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If your bucket list is anything like mine, you hope to one day take part in a real life Mario Kart race. I can only fathom that Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, had a similar fantastical wish. Under the guise of promoting the new Mario Kart game due out in December, Fils-Aime comm
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In a recent interview about his game-poem A Slow Year, written for Atari 2600, Ian Bogost mused over why videogames are often compared to films and novels, when the closest analogy might be poetry. poetry feels game-like to me not because it is procedural, but because it is highly condensed… symbols