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  • Laura Hudson
    11:00 am Tue, Aug 25, 2015
    The 50th anniversary of the word 'hypertext'

    Ted Nelson talks about coining the term "hypertext" in a 1965 paper, long before the rise of personal computing.

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  • Laura Hudson
    3:54 am Tue, Aug 25, 2015
    Mobile game of the week: Pac-Man 256

    The new Pac-Man is about running from a glitch wave through an endless map while shooting lasers at ghosts.

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:43 pm Mon, Aug 24, 2015
    U.S. Army Ranger School officer slams critics of first female graduates ever

    "No matter what we at Ranger School say the non-believers will still be non-believers. We could have invited each of you to guest walk the entire course, and you would still not believe."

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  • Laura Hudson
    9:36 am Mon, Aug 24, 2015
    Driver tries to kick cyclist, takes a Superman pratfall

    If we learn anything from this video, it's that road rage is incredibly embarrassing, but also that the phrase "PUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH SHUT" should live forever.

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  • Laura Hudson
    2:09 am Mon, Aug 24, 2015
    Poop on everyone as a beautiful seagull

    "You poop uncontrollably. Your purpose is to poop on things."

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:46 am Fri, Aug 21, 2015
    Play the world's largest version of Minesweeper, maybe

    In honor of the game's 30th anniversary, you can apply for a chance to clear 38,799 mines from a massive Minesweeper board that stretches across 24 screens—on expert mode.

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  • Laura Hudson
    4:18 am Thu, Aug 20, 2015
    The drone warfare game where you spy on players with your smartphone

    "Bycatch" is a term used by fishermen to describe the marine life unintentionally caught in their nets. It's also the name of a card game that deals with a very different sort of collateral damage: civilians killed by drone strikes.

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  • Laura Hudson
    4:49 am Wed, Aug 19, 2015
    A romance game that feels like playing a Jane Austen novel

    If you've ever wanted to experience the romance, gossip, and tragic social misunderstandings of an Austen heroine, Regency Love is a visual novel made just for you.

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  • Laura Hudson
    1:00 pm Tue, Aug 18, 2015
    Jaime Hernandez draws Archie

    The legendary Love and Rockets cartoonist turns his gaze to Riverdale.

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:06 pm Tue, Aug 18, 2015
    Convert your face into emoji

    Like most people, I enjoy using emoji. But until today, I could not actually be emoji. All that has changed.

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  • Laura Hudson
    1:09 pm Mon, Aug 17, 2015
    Exploring the abandoned digital campuses of Second Life universities

    During the heyday of Second Life, numerous universities set up their own online campuses in the virtual world, which have slowly become ghost towns—and artifacts of an earlier digital era.

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:31 pm Fri, Aug 14, 2015
    T-shirt extols the best response to Twitter trolls

    Getting harassed on Twitter? You know what to do. And so does this tank top.

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  • Laura Hudson
    11:28 am Fri, Aug 14, 2015
    Fix the broken pieces of this pot, also your life

    There's something appealing about putting a broken thing back together, a way of restoring order to the world—or affirming that damaged things are still worth saving.

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  • Laura Hudson
    1:43 pm Thu, Aug 13, 2015
    Soar on the wind as a flock of birds in Gathering Sky

    You begin Gathering Sky as a bird. Move your cursor, and it follows. But as you guide it through the sky, slowly adding other birds to your aerial coterie, the… Read the rest of the article: Soar on the wind as a flock of birds in Gathering Sky

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  • Laura Hudson
    1:38 pm Wed, Aug 12, 2015
    An adventure game that teaches you how to draw pixel art

    Play as a student at the Retropolis Academy of Art learning to create pixel art—and actually learn to do it.

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  • Laura Hudson
    10:22 am Tue, Aug 11, 2015
    Cultivate an alien garden on this sunless world

    A dark, distant planet is slowly coming to life with a colorful ecosystem of flora and fauna. Will you tend it?

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  • Laura Hudson
    12:59 pm Mon, Aug 10, 2015
    Die a thousand deaths in a beautiful, capricious forest

    The forest is a dangerous, thorny place in Feist, where you play as a silent, furry character rustling its way through trees, mountains, and crumbling caves during the perpetual golden hour of sunset.

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  • Laura Hudson
    11:28 am Fri, Aug 7, 2015
    Help these middle school girls make a vengeful murder mystery game

    The young winners of the Girls Make Games grand prize want to make their prototype a reality with the help of professional mentors, artists and programmers.

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  • Laura Hudson
    2:07 pm Wed, Aug 5, 2015
    You are a blind cat just trying to find your way home

    Wanderment is like every other platform game you've ever played, except that you're a cat, and you're blind, and the world around you is comprised of shimmering fragments of sound.

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  • Laura Hudson
    11:19 am Tue, Aug 4, 2015
    One way to avoid cultural appropriation: Seek collaborators, not just characters

    How one publisher turned a video game into a collaboration with an entire Alaska Native community.

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