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Gamespotting: Brooklyn’s Finest
Early on in Brooklyn's Finest , we're introduced to a group of drug dealers working for Wesley Snipes' character and infiltrated by Don Cheadle's character. They have a room where they play videogames. »
Make Bioshock’s Big Sister the light of your life
I remember when I first heard there were going to be Big Sisters in Bioshock 2 . I rolled my eyes. »
Videoamers overrun poll, give English road a dorky name
The city of Derby in England learned what happens when you hold a world-wide online poll to determine the name of one of your roads. A bunch of computer gaming dorks weigh in and then you end up with most of the 27,000 votes going to Lara Croft. Here's the reaction from Derby... »
Historical documents — okay, sketches — reveal Quake’s earliest stages
From John Romero's website: My original sketch for E1M1, the first map in Quake. This was on my pad of paper where I listed myself as Project Specialist because I did so many different things on our games »
Lara Croft wins record number of Guinness World Records
Lara Croft is the big winner in the 2010 Guinness World Records . The all-action archaeologist and star of the Tomb Raider series beat her rivals Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog for the highest number of entries in the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition, including most successful video game heroine »
What Lego Final Fantasy would look like
A guy named Dunechaser runs the Lego blog Brothers Brick . He also has a great set of custom Legos on Flickr , including the cast of Final Fantasy VII and characters from Diablo . By the way, if you want to see how epic Legos can get, check out this Avatar diorama... »
Was Zork invented by a Belgian typewriter?
Nick Montfort's blog, Post Position, has a superlative bit of detective work exploring the origins of the word "zork", familiar to videogamers as the title of interactive fiction that famously begins west of a white house. »
Free this weekend? Break the world videogaming record!
The El Paso Video Game Examiner (the what...?) has a brief blurb about a kid at a university in Austin with a dream. His dream is to break the world record for longest continuous time spent playing a video game. He wants to do it to raise money for a new pool for... »
Study explores the link between videogaming and not getting lost
Brian Verdine at Vanderbilt is in the middle of a study exploring the link between videogaming and situational awareness . The core of the study involves taking participants through a number of outdoor navigational exercises, which are then repeated a week later. »
When World of Warcraft meets a real-world death
Someone who identifies himself as "Sebastian H" writes about how he was affected by the death of a another World of Warcraft player . »