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Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to produce dumb cryptocurrency
Wow. Shibe-faced Dogecoin illicitly mined on Ivy League supercomputer. Amaze!
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Star Citizen Introduces the Mustang and the Javelin Starships as Crowd Funding Reaches $39 Million
You know.... I think the 39,000,000 number is more interesting than the ships....
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BioShock Developer Irrational Games Is Dissolving
Studio head Ken Levine plans to start a new, smaller team at 2K following the dissolution of the current development team.
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Freemium Is The New Shareware...
Swrve has released their first 'Mobile Games Monetization Report', looking at the freemium model of income in mobile gaming. While the numbers and conversion rates seem low, they match up closely with the historical data for the shareware model that has been the mainstay of mobile and indie gaming for over twenty years. Freemium is the new name, but the business model remains the same.
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Twitch Beats Pokémon! The next adventure begins Sunday
Tens of thousands of people took more than 16 days to finish the game.
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What Games Are: Going Small
Some changes are as obvious as night and day. Where once mobile phone gaming was the preserve of Java studios against a backdrop of handset operators taking 70% revenue cuts, now there are smartphone gaming and app stores. Steve Jobs got up on stage and announced the App Store and changed the world in a moment. Things would never be the same again.
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How to Make a No. 1 App With $99 and Three Hours of Work
You don't need to be a programmer to break into the App Store's top charts. All you need is 100 bucks and a free afternoon.
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This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes
The reading game is about to change forever.
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How Valve and Cryptozoic came together for a Portal board game (update)
The Portal board game that Cryptozoic Entertainment announced last week didn't originate from within the company, a boutique publisher of tabletop games. The idea actually came from Valve.
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Elo Boosting Service
League of Legends is an incredible game but it's also challenging. In order to rank high, you'll have to spend lots of days to improve your technique and character. If you want to experience everything LoL has to offer, you can try LoL boosting. It's a service provided by the best players that will boost your character to the league you desire in just a few days.
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A Taffer's Lamentations: Thief 2014 from the view of a fan.
A review of the latest Thief game from the perspective of a longtime fan of the series.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game
"There was a time when computer games didn't have graphics. Or at least they couldn't have graphics and sound at the same time. They certainly couldn't have graphics, sound and enough content to keep even a human being amused for more than a few minutes. So they had text.
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The Flight of the Birdman: Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
How did a chain-smoking geek from Hanoi design the viral hit Flappy Bird - and why did he walk away?
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Why You're Going to Suck At Oculus Rift and Virtual Reality
Everyone loves to talk about the Oculus Rift, but are we going to be TERRIBLE at virtual reality? For most of us, the answer is probably yes. The footage of Oculus Rift looks crazy and amazing, and we can't wait. BUT the lack of physical separation between player and game means our minds are unable to distinguish between virtual reality and ACTUAL reality (motion sickness anyone?).
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Xbox Live goes down, crippling the launch of 'Titanfall'
Now is the absolute worst time for Xbox Live to be down. Today marks the debut of Titanfall, the game that could make or break the Xbox One game console. It's a masterpiece of mechanical...
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Papers, Please: The 'boring' game that became a smash hit
If video gaming is designed to be a form of escapism, why would anyone choose to escape to a dead-end, soul-sucker of a job? "You play a border inspector at a contentious check-point," says Lucas Pope, 36, the developer responsible for the most unlikely of smash hits. "People are coming into your booth, and they want to get from one side to the other. You've got to check their documents and make sure everything's in order before you let them through.
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13 Things You Didn't Know About Nintendo
Nintendo is one of the oldest and most beloved companies around. Seriously, after 120 years and counting, there are more than 200 Mario games alone and dozens of consoles and handhelds. But did you know that the original Mario and friends celebrated their victories with a bottle of bubbly? Here are 13 things you probably didn't know about (nearly) everyone’s favorite video game company.
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How A Game Design Rookie Accidentally Built A $200 Million Hit
When Dan Porter set out to create Draw Something, he barely knew what he was doing. Here's how his naivet made him millions.
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Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs
One of my favorite movies as a kid was Tron, the early 1980's film about a computer programmer who gets “digitized” and sucked into a computer world inhabited by personified computer programs. In the film, the protagonist joins a group...
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This Scrabble-Playing Robot is a Sore Loser. Best Move: Hurling Insults at Opponents
Like many Scrabble players, Victor tends to blame bad luck when he loses. "Sometimes, I hate this game," says Victor, a Scrabble-playing robot created by students under the supervision of Reid Simmons, a robotics professor at Carnegie Mellon University here. Victor's secret is that he talks a better game than he plays. He is a champion trash talker. A typical put-down: "Since you're human, I guess you think that's a pretty good move."
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