We tend to associate old people with, well, old games. But one woman had a different idea for how to settle into the triple digits: Kit, who turned 100 last week, only started playing video games at the age of 96, but she now relies on her DS console to keep her mind active. “The Nintendo has been a
Lev Grossman at TIME has a deep look into the world of fan fiction, a place where fans act as authors and take their favorite characters from film, television, and beyond to new narrative environments: Fan-fiction writers aren’t plagiarists who can’t come up with their own ideas, and they’re not all
Elaine Edwards wants to make an interactive eBook for the iPad called “Doggie and Me”. She writes, With the ‘Doggie & Me’ story, I want to teach kids the importance of sharing a bond. I believe when children grow up with pets- particularly dogs, they learn the importance of building kind, loving re
QR codes—the black-and-white, bar code-esque emblems found in magazine adverts and on blogs—aren’t good for much. The Atlantic recently chided the strange squares, calling them “the roller-skating horses of advertising.” Though they are meant to convey information to your smartphone via its camera,
EA Sports’ Madden football juggernaut has accurately predicted the winner of the Super Bowl six out of eight times since 2004. What’s even more impressive is that the game predicted that the Giants and Patriots would be in the Super Bowl at the beginning of this season. This year, Madden is saying t
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To this day, one key aspect of Deus Ex’s original brilliance still impresses people for its rarity: the fact that you could beat the game without killing a single person! A new piece in the Wall Street Journal suggests that this innovation may finally be becoming a larger trend: Videogames have long
Once again it’s the Rap Map, where we talk to our favorite hip-hop artists about their favorite videogames. Danny Brown’s mixtape XXX was named hip-hop album of the year by SPIN Magazine. Fresh off a tour with Das Racist, Brown spoke with us about his early gaming experiences, how videogames inform