smules ocarina tecznotes weve seen this all before but these smule globes seem strangely different and much more interesting largely i think because you hold the phone in your hand instead of the laptop or monitor on your desk. its a more personal touched engagement with the screen that makes visualizing an earthspanning army of phone lighters and flut......
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there are a ton of erated games out on the market. we know about them because we focus on a large section of the industry. alos covering nintendo brings us a lot of erated games. when it comes to parents looking for games things can be a lot harder. did you know that review sites like gamerankings only carry games that have 20 reviews or more that might make it a little hard to find all......
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well another gamesetlinkdump and im rapidly coming to the conclusion that there are too many links in the world. but hey im having fun distilling them and throwing them in your direction especially if they involve claymation something that games do all too seldom. also hanging out in here weird space invaders insanity the return of the delightful boyer in conjunction w......
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ego ...trip well take props from anyone even if they dont really exist ego ...trip you never know who you might run into on xbox live off ...world boingboings new game site launches with a modest bang bang bin ...go or were surprised that more gamers havent figured this out wom ...en in games dont kill kuniochi rayn......
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yes video games make big money yes lots of people play them and yes some of them are violent. theres more to the story of course and lately its coming from an unlikely general media outlet national public radio. free games by unknown......
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whats the best argument against those who say video games are destroying society thats the first discussion topic fielded by a new online center about the intersection of video games and human values. the center is led by roger travis an associate professor of modern and classical languages at the university of connecticut. he kicks off the discussion with his o......
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nodalities blog archive a datacentric view the point here is that the flickr team did not wake up one morning and think you know if we captured this kind of data we could create this mashup so lets create an application. instead they reused data they were already capturing and brought out something very interesting indeed. by creating tools which match th......
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does the gamesetlinkdump action never end not when theres websites to be trawled and rss feeds to be read and smart writing to be disseminated to you lovely gamesetwatch readers it wont. among the neatness here the new gamer on spookiness in fallout discussion of usergenerated content in games like the pictured littlebigplanet rhianna pratchett on the mirrorr......
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no news is good news right well maybe not when it has to do with games for the mac. when theres no news about games for the mac theres nothing happening. usually. its entirely possible that apple have bitten into the way its meant to be played by nvidia and are securing ports of left 4 dead fallout 3 and mirrors edge but i somehow i doubt it. more lik......
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ever get the feeling were all just saying the same damn thing ......
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a return to gamesetlinkdump after a couple of days and a few pop up from earlier this week in preparation for a fresh rss trawl this weekend. its headed by a review of simon the sorceror 4 actually which is neat because the classic adventure franchise is still alive supported by those lovely germans. but also in here a hint or we can only dream that elite beat agents 2......
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youtube pursuit of perfection a video about tiger woods and kaizen. kaizen is the concept of continous improvement made famous by toyota. the brainy gamer hoosier miracle several of the most powerful grand wizards of the klan hailed from indiana. and barack obama won the state of indiana yesterday. do you see the miracle of this......
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thats what id have chosen to call my latest feature piece for tgr but hey i guess thats why im not an editor. the article is actuallyatitled the silly season or how i learned to give up and pass on fallout 3.aill admit thats a lot more selfexplanatory than my effort. inathe articleai go through the reasons why im probably not going to be pick......
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this week we have our featured pieces then a round up on blogging the brain mental health video games and anthropology. ah the electric eclectic. top of the list my mind on books supersizing the mind by andy clark my mind on books features the just released supersizing the mind embodiment action and cognitive extension . andy clarks earlier book being there putting ......
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a the miniature is power over the world of things we would like to possess but do not. sarah higley a taste for shrinking movie miniatures and the unreal city camera obscura what if the worlds we inhabit in videogames arent huge but are in fact microscopic not sweepingly epic stretches of geography but instead the tiniest of tiny realms magnified ......
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i just finished playing through traces of hope which was recommended over at brainy gamer . i enjoyed it quite a bit though the experience grew less engaging as it went on. it reminded me of my first attempt at an alternate reality game back when i played around with majestic . there was something thrilling then that still excites me about args. traces of hope is a pretty short expe......
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michael abbott of the brainy gamer has a nice reminder of why we play rpgs well those of us who play rpgs based on some of his undergradu atesrsquo writings on their experiences in fallout 1 and 2 . michael notes that the exercise writing autobiographies of their characters is often used in theatre but it never occurred to him that it would be useful for his studen......
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quick thought.a i love michael abbotts brainy gamer podcasts and his new confab series is a gamer view in the making.a but question for your gamers when do you listen to games podcastsa how do we find the timea do you have a long commutea the gyma do you listen while youre drifting to sleepa i try to do it when i play other games and that was a problem last time mic......
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this week we have decision making the brain and anthropology plus this weeks top picks. top of the list eugene raikhel the prevalent placebo anthropology sheds light on the placebo. somatospheres take on the recent report that 50 of us doctors give placebos to patients with a consideration of both the placebo phenomenon and the literature surrounding it. deric bownds......
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well ive already described todays pictured wii game on the gamasutra groupchat channel as full of win though you guys can decide for yourselves whether it is or not by drinking in the exceptionally silly artwork and minigame descriptions. but luckily theres more than just that on here with some of the below posts poking at yakuza 2 discussing web dev......
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for a while now some commentators have been following a thread of time. leigh alexander wrote of a compulsion loop while michael abbotts most recent post urges us to chew our food . these are reflections on an industry used to or perhaps becoming ever more accustomed to a fast cycle of prerelease hyperelea sepostmor temad finitum. this occurs across all segments of the gami......
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its 1130pm on a week night and im starting to get a little worried. my list of readymade blog articles are beginning to shrink and i desperately need some more ideas to fight the tide. there are plenty of handwavy ideas in the slosh but i need something to jump out at me so i load up google reader and read until something clicks. it doesnt take long for someone else8217......
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as part of my ongoing interest in video games here is another round up. besides some top picks this one covers social issues game design academic research some funny stuff games and more games learning and education through gaming and a surprise mixup ending. i know i know this is way too long but i guess this might be my own obsessive ritual. but if you really do want more you c......
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maybe the best summary of how i view my own life that ive ever seen the brainy gamer finding your inner child sounds like a ridiculous and hopelessly outmoded selfhelp bromide these days. but as i look at the world around me at this moment i cant think of a better prescription. weve been steadily increasing our productivity for decades. we work and work a......
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are you ashamed to be a gamer do you hide your hobby from friends and family do they really know how invested you are in the world of video games there are some people that go out of their way to hide their hobby from the world. ive never understood that. back before gonintendo i was just as big a gamer as i am now. everyone knew about my love of games and i wasnt ashamed......
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