The rise of slow gaming, our cultural antidote to Angry Birds
Taking time to mull transforms how we play.
Taking time to mull transforms how we play.
Won’t someone just think of the owls?
Is there something in the water in Helsinki?
Creating three seconds of perfection.
The NSA and its British chums across the pond have been using a backdoor in ad-supported mobile apps—specifically, Angry Birds—to mine sensitive data, according to The New York Times. This includes Google Map locations, websites visited, and buddy lists, according to newly declassified documents leaked to the press by Edward Snowden. And you thought you were just flicking a peeved canary dressed as Obi-Wan into a very flimsy Deathstar. It sucks that government snooping has tainted the beautiful thing that is free mobile games, but it’s not unprecedented. We already knew that the NSA had spies inside of World of…
Behold: the beauty of iteration.