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Last fall, I was lured to a rustic cottage in the picturesque Hudson River Valley for a “work retreat”. Little did I know, the plan my colleagues had in store for me had little do with work, and everything to do with repeatedly bludgeoning me at Super Stickman Golf until I felt a terrible mix of sha
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The good news: scientists at Imperial College in London have created an AI that built an actual computer game. The game is called, innocuously enough, A Puzzling Present. Its author is named ANGELINA, or “A Novel Game-Evolving Labrat I’ve Named Angelina.” It works like this: …using a system of modul
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We know, we know, we tell you about a lot of Kickstarter projects. They can be hard to keep track of, particularly lower profile campaigns. It can also be hard to discern how feasible a project’s funding goal is. Kicktraq changes that. This website presents, in easy-to-decipher graphs and statistics
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Gameranx has published a helpful breakdown of the notable releases of 2013 by system, and the big takeaway is: Wii U owners, I hope you like watching TVii. There simply aren’t any major exclusive titles to get excited about, other than maybe Pikmin 3. Wii U, which distinctly lacks a killer bundled a
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-Monopoly expert Philip Orbanes on Hasbro’s “Save Your Token” campaign. On February 5 the piece with the lowest numer of fan votes – be it car, iron, dog, wheelbarrow, shoe, top hat, thimble or battleship – will be permanently retired and replaced with a toy robot, a helicopter, a cat, a guitar or a
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David Gaider, the lead writer of BioWare’s Dragon Age series, has taken to his Tumblr to bemoan the increasingly venomous conversation among the games’ super-fans on the Bioware Social Network. Gaider writes, The signal-to-noise ratio does seem to be worsening, and eventually you get the feeling lik
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Yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show, Razer announced the specifications for its gaming tablet, “Edge.” (No article; U2 string section be damned.) The “Pro” “Edge” will cost $1300 dollars (the base model will run you one G). Here are some things you could buy with that money, if you choose not
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The rules of Indie Speed Run are simple: “Make a playable game in only 48 hours. Face judgment by industry professionals and your peers. Win loot.” Caesar’s Day Off, created by Benedikt Hummel, Marius Fietzek and Sabrina Winter for, is also simple. You play as the Roman Emperor, and you can do two t
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Imagine a digital version of The Game of Life set in ancient Egypt. That’s 7 Grand Steps, a historical-family-dynasty board game of sorts. In the free demo, you move pieces (characters) across a spinning wheel with tokens corresponding to Copper Age skills like brewing, writing, and masonry. Landing
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By now you’ve probably heard of one incredibly dedicated Minecraft builder’s quest to recreate the world’s continents at .06% of their actual size. So just how big is that. Permit us some back-of-the-internet-enveleop math, please. The size of all of the Earth’s continents is 57,393,000 square miles
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–Tomas Rawlings, designer of Syrian-rebel simulation Endgame: Syria. The game was recently rejected from distribution over the Apple app store.
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That’s the case made by Chad Kilgore, a designer at Day 1 Studios, today at Gamasutra. Gardner hypothesized that human intelligence was not reducible to single metrics like IQ; rather, our intelligence is multiple and broad, spanning seven categories: spatial, linguistic mathematical-logical, bodily