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We review Portal 2 today with an emphasis on what makes the game so buoyant: Portal 2 is still Portal, the sleeper hit that began life as an extra in The Orange Box. It’s still a game about using portals, pairs of doors that connect distant places, to navigate through a level. There is simply more P
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“We need games that, while still allowing us the escapism we turn to them for, allows us a better look at the realities of decision making than “I ate your kitten” or “I will die for you.” — editorial from Bitch Media
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We’ve all dealt with cheaters at various stages of gameplay — on the playground, at the kitchen table board game, on Xbox Live. Their ways seem inscrutable. Why would you deliberately defraud someone if you’re ostensibly playing the same game? The New York Times this past weekend approached the na
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8-bit crimes will be a thing of the past! The device is a video camera that allows a face detector to capture a 25×25 pixel cropped face image. A mask is then applied to remove the background and the image is then passed on to a classifier which outputs the gender of the person. It is interesting to
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PAUSE: Space Invader chair is minimal, menacing. (via fanboygaymerjunk)
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Finger Battle will destroy your iPod with the force of a million thumbs.
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Exciting piece on the burgeoning of female game designers, highlighting Margaret Krohn (above) who went from QA to game designer at Sony Online Entertainment: “I started with ‘EverQuest’ and MMO-style games. That was back when there was one girl to every bazillion guys. Now it’s like I could have 20
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Videogame ratings are far from perfect and the poor Entertainment Software Review Board is tasked with assigning moral values to the hundreds and now thousands of games that hit the market each year. They have apparently given up the soft touch of their human board of reviewers and turned some of th
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In a GIF: All Hail Vector Bird This is “Lift” by Emilio Gomariz. (via nevver)
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So this week, mindful parents around the country will be shutting down down their televisions for Screen Free Week, a national effort to curb television watching for kids. This seems all well and good — too much of anything is a bad thing. But over at Slate, lawyer KJ Della’Antonia points out that t
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Today on Kill Screen, we talk to Rutgers epidemiologist Nina Fefferman about her research on a real outbreak of a disease known as “Corrupted Blood” that ravaged the community about five years ago. Below, two excerpts on the utility of studying online communities and another on griefing: All told, h
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This may be a fad, but oh well, there are a handful of 3DS photoblogs bopping around Tumblr that take advantage of the devices GIF-making ability. The shot above comes from Fuck Yeah 3DS Photography. Brandon Boyer, Mare Odomo, and Cory Schmitz made another called Wigglevision. Any others?