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Gaming
Please draw anything
Zynga spent $200 million to buy Omgpop and Draw Something, a game that's hemorrhaging users. Whoops.
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Gaming
We Space Invading
Game hackers turned New York City's planetarium into a rocket ship and all we got were these amazing animated GIFs.
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Gaming
Point, Click, Pillage
Twenty years ago, Monkey Island 2 taught us about piracy, snark, and the futility of life.
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Gaming
Welcome To The Next Videogame Golden Age
All the world's a stage (in a videogame).
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Gaming
8-Bit Piracy Prevention
Nintendo once tried to beat Chinese IP thieves at their own game.
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Gaming
Long Live Videogames and Beer
Drink and thrive after a couple rounds on this classic cabinet.
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Gaming
Childhood Hero
In 1976, Jerry Lawson designed the videogame cartridge that would define the next 20 years of computer entertainment
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Gaming
Gamer's Heaven
The '90s sucked terribly for Mac gaming, but at least there was Afterlife. We remember it fondly.
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Gaming
The Devil's in the Data
Metacritic goes after individual game developers, proving the limits of data aggregation in the process.
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Gaming
Prosocial Games Make You Enjoy Others' Pain Less
Prosocial games equal +5 XP in Popularity.
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Gaming
The Five Novels That Should Be Video Games
Apparently, Finnegan's Wake is not already a video game.
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(video)It's Almost (Bullet) Time for Max Payne 3
[This post brought to you by Rockstar Games] For Max Payne, the tragedies that took his loved one... (video)
May 11, 2012
by Motherboard
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Chop Suey Got Gaming for Girls Totally Right
Developed in 1994 and published the following year, <em>Chop Suey</em> was a cunning ...
May 12, 2012
by Jenn_Frank
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We're Already Bored of Draw Something
A month after Zynga plopped $200 million down for gaming startup Omgpop so it could swallow up ov...
May 08, 2012
by Alec_Liu
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Fun Fact: Killing Zombie Nazis Is Good For Your Brain
A new study out of the University of Toronto shows that first-person-shooter (FPS) action video g...
Apr 29, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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The Shittiest Game
Earlier this month, New York University’s Game Center presented Bad is Beautiful, a playable exhi...
Apr 27, 2012
by Jenn_Frank
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Why is Minecraft Full of Penises?
Ever since the first tunnel was carved block-by-block, Minecraft has been a roaring success. For ...
Mar 23, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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(video)How Super Mario Brothers Turned the World Surreal
Our pal Mike Rugnetta at PBS’ new Idea Channel sent along this video a couple days ago, whe... (video)
Mar 17, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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At GDC, Everyone is Making Something
Early Wednesday morning, on the second day of the 2012 Game Developers Conference, a row of news ...
Mar 12, 2012
by Joshua_Kopstein
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The Point of the Tamagotchi was to Watch Things Die
If you picked up a dystopian 19th century novel, paged through it, and found the plot-point where...
Mar 12, 2012
by Adriane_Quinlan
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Doug Wilson Want Us To Look Like Idiots Playing Videogames
High-polish, multi-million selling titles may dominate today’s videogame industry, but Doug...
Mar 08, 2012
by Joshua_Kopstein
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Bennett Foddy is Trolling You With Videogames
Bennett Foddy is the closest thing the indie game development scene has to an internet troll. His...
Mar 06, 2012
by Joshua_Kopstein
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Pug Hero
There are thousands of apps for making music on an iPad, and most of them are actually pretty dul...
Mar 02, 2012
by Joshua_Kopstein
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Internet Addiction Self-Help, via the Internet
“Last month, 51-year-old Craig Smallwood, an online gamer, was given leave by a court in H...
Feb 25, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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(video)FRACT is Part Tron, Part Videogame Synthesizer
Almost every videogame ever made has a soundtrack, but there are still very few that let you beco... (video)
Feb 20, 2012
by Joshua_Kopstein
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(video)Beware, Crazy Eddie Has Gone Computer Crazy
For nearly 20 years, from 1971 to 1989, Crazy Eddie was one of New York-and-beyond’s comput... (video)
Feb 12, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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The Internet to Tim Schafer: 'Shut Up and Take Our Money'
If you spend any decent amount of time talking with videogame developers, it won’t be long ...
Feb 10, 2012
by Joshua_Kopstein
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(video)MBTV: Oral History of Gaming: Alex Rigopulos
Steven Colbert’s brilliant attack on the fallout of Citizen’s United by way of an out... (video)
Feb 08, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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The Hayden Planetarium is Turning into a Videogame
Remember your first visit to the planetarium? Neil DeGrasse Tyson does — it was what inspir...
Jan 24, 2012
by Joshua_Kopstein
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Meet Flight Control's Evil Realistic Cousin
Imagine Flight Control, the way popular phone/tablet game app that has users landing planes with ...
Jan 03, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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2011 Was The Year Videogames Went Outside
Here’s a brazen end-of-the-year declaration I’m not afraid to make: 2011 marked the y...
Dec 23, 2011
by Joshua_Kopstein
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Poignant Postmodern Piracy: 20 Years of "Monkey Island 2"
Remembering a 1991 game that embodied millennials’ self-obsession.
Dec 23, 2011
by Abraham_Riesman
