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I Played Myst at the Museum: Visiting The Art of Video Games
This weekend, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC opened the long-awaited exhibit The Art of Video Games Walking into the museum, one immediately feels the whispered air that says: this is the home of Serious Art. Museums like the Smithsonian take much from our everyday lives and set it aside, defining it as…
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UncategorizedWTPT: Blades of Time Heroine Just Won’t Shut Up
Konami’s hack and slash, Blades of Time, might not win this year’s best in the genre award, but you would at least expect the narration to be less obnoxious. Protagonist Ayumi has a penchant for not. shutting. up. I’m all for a sense of company while I play a game. Narration and idle dialogue (or…
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UncategorizedWho Wants to Tell the Metal-Etching Laser It’s Singing Portal‘s “Still Alive” Off-Key?
If Portal taught me anything, it’s that any machine possessing even the most rudimentary degree of artificial intelligence is a potential threat, so I think I’ll just sit back and quietly enjoy the Automated Laser Corporation 20 watt fiber laser’s rendition of Jonathan Coulton’s “Still Alive”. Reader Chris DePrisco had the incredibly irresponsible yet somewhat…
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The Lady Version of World of Warcraft‘s New Panda Race is Kind of Ridiculous
Last October, Blizzard announced their newest World of Warcraft expansion, The Mists of Pandaria. One of the major selling points for the expansion is a new player character race: panda-bear people called Pandaren. And yet in the five months until now, all screenshots and trailers featuring the Pandaren have shown exclusively male characters. Today, Blizzard…
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There is Almost Nothing Entertaining About a Broken Sword
In today’s 88 percent durable edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Deuxhero wonders why game developers continue to include breakable weapons in their adventure games long after the novelty has worn off. So what’s the deal with breakable weapons? Some games do it right, and they generally fall into two camps. One is the…
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International Star Wars Fan Groups Now Accepting The Old Republic as Costume Canon
It may have Lucas’ blessing, but a Star Wars product isn’t a true Star Wars product until the fans accept it into their hearts, or their costuming communities. Both the Light and Dark sides of international Star Wars costuming organizations are now allowing applicants to submit outifts based on BioWare’s massively-multiplayer online role-playing game. While…
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What Guild Wars 2 Questions Do You Want Answered?
Another round of Guild Wars 2 beta testing begins soon, and this time I around am arming myself with your questions before taking the plunge into Tyria once again. What can I do for you? Having already learned much of what I wanted to know during my Guild Wars 2 weekend experience last month, I’m…
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Thieves Had No Place To Run, Except for an Internet Cafe
Two young men in Yueqing, Zhejiang Province China, were taken in by police earlier last week for pick-pocketing. The two young men in question, Xiao Pan and Xiao Bing, are only 17 and 14 years-old respectively. Xiao Pan had ran away from home and had been living on the streets for a while, surviving by…
By Eric Jou
