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April 11, 2011, 1:00 pm
“Culture arises and unfolds in and as play.” — Johan Huizinga
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April 11, 2011, 12:30 pm
Pause: The Pixel Art of Andy Helms [via oktotally]
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Videogames can aid in stroke recovery
For those who’ve suffered from stroke, there may be new hope. A report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association suggests that games can help patients regain arm strength. “Recent research indicates the brain has a remarkable potential for remodelling because after injury it shows neurop
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Zombie trailer + Icelandic composer = iTunes track
Remember that Dead Island trailer for a couple weeks back? The one with the lilting strings? We’re not huge fans of hype around trailers, but if you haven’t watched this one, you should. Anyway, it was the handiwork of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds, a eminently talented and tow-headed young man
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World of Warcraft gold farmer, spit boy, alewife ranked as worst jobs ever performed
We know there are many bad jobs in the world. (Major website videogame intern may be one of them, in fact.) Lapham’s Quarterly has gone ahead and done the legwork for the worst jobs ever created. These include such glorious distinctions Viking egg-collector, the poor people in Tokyo who push crowde
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April 9, 2011, 1:07 pm
PAUSE: Sachin Teng.
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A peace offering to Kratos, website shows history of war in snazzy interactive fashion
An exemplar of pure dedication to military history or a love sacrifice to the God of War, Conflict History is exactly as it seems. (It’s Friday. We’re straightforward.) For Civilization nuts, this a perfect way to compare your plans of world domination to those of glorious yesterday. Scroll through
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103 level Streets of Rage tribute tests the limits of fan devotion, sanity
You love Streets of Rage, but there is a limit to your love. (Womp womp.) For a team of modders called Bomber Games, there’s no better way to build on a classic than to create an 103-level high rise of fan dedication and achievement known as Streets of Rage Remake. What was lost in titular creativit
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Look at my Nano suit! In which we move one step closer to Crysis-style nano suit for home, vacation
Aaaand we’re one step closer to nano suits that will allow all who have been playing Crysis to show off the rippling sinews that we’ve been hiding for so long. “Nanotechnology allows a novel route to materials and structures that can be used to develop human-friendly devices with realistic functions
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Israeli advocacy group in West Bank makes religious/nationalistic video games for kids.
Residents’ Councils of Samaria and Binyamin, an advocacy group for religious settlers, recently commissioned a series of religious- and nationalistic-themed videogames. Israeli youth are the target audience and the group told Fast Company that they want “to reach the heart of the younger generation
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Nothing Expresses the Joy of Videogames More Than the US Border Patrol
Want to get people interested in signing up for being Border Patrol guards? Well, this real-time strategy game developed for a nifty $10 million might be the answer. Putting the “serious” back in “serious games”: So for Sandia, home of the world’s largest X-ray machine, a project like the “Borders H
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April 8, 2011, 12:55 am
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