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Twitter Links Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes
An excellent example of distributed cognition. The hope that swarms of gamers can help to solve difficult biological problems has been given another boost…

March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments
Link The Artist is Present (a video game about…
Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes…

September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments
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December 8 2010, 8:50am | Comments
Link How Video Games Are Infiltrating—and Improving—Every Part of…
Games are sneaking into every part of our lives -- at home, school, and work. Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and even the Army depend on games. and Pretty soon, you'll be…

December 8 2010, 8:46am | Comments
Link Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution
In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959…

September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments
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August 27 2010, 4:32pm | Comments
Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is…

April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments
Link Hands-on: Sleep Is Death
A lot of game critics you talk to will tell you that, after making a career of playing games, it takes a lot to impress them. But that's not exactly…

April 6 2010, 9:03am | Comments
Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be…

March 10 2010, 9:39am | Comments
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February 23 2010, 12:43pm | Comments
Link Evidence of Everything Exploding
A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

January 5 2010, 8:54am | Comments
Link The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009
Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in…

January 5 2010, 8:50am | Comments
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December 8 2009, 1:12pm | Comments
Link lose/lose
Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien,…

October 1 2009, 5:30am | Comments
Link This Is The Only Level
This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with…

August 15 2009, 6:54pm | Comments
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July 21 2009, 5:33pm | Comments
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July 21 2009, 5:21pm | Comments
Link Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island
About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to…

June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments
Link Closure
A surreal spectacle of a game, balanced half-way between the whole and the gap

May 24 2009, 3:04pm | Comments

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