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What do you own? Looking through my possessions, I feel fairly comfortable that the food in my fridge belongs to me. And I have an odd confidence that the hardware in my PC is mine. But the books on my shelves? I seem to have very little rights over them. The CDs stacked up in [...]

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You know, as much as we all may enjoy Red Dead Redemption, it doesn’t do a very good job of teaching us what it was like to be a settler back in the day, building our own homes with our own blocky hands and giant, pixelated pick-axes. Some new Minecraft maps may do just that. [...]

[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday opinion piece, Splash Damage lead programmer Dean Calver looks at the problems some disabled developers face in an industry that hasn't made enough efforts to accommodate them.] The vast majority of the games our industry make are virtual, computer software that transports us to other worlds shown to us via a [...]

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Yesterday morning, Juho Salila went to work as usual, expecting to streamline the graphics and build a few monsters for Legend of Grimrock, Almost Human’s imminent dungeon crawler. He sat down, booted up his computer, and noticed the Grimlock site had crashed multiple times throughout the night due to traffic overload, and his inbox was [...]

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As far as we’re able to tell, Microsoft envisions a future where powerful businessmen and hipster ultrabloggers (like ourselves) flail wildly in front of our laptops while on crowded public transportation. Yes, the Kinect’s array of cameras and sensors is being tested on various prototype Windows 8 laptops, according to a preview by The Daily. [...]

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I’ve been playing the oddly quietly-released latest third person action’n’ urban psychopathy game from Running With Scissors, Postal III. Needless to say, I wish I hadn’t. I have a large tumbler full of Scotch (I know, I know, you’re supposed to use a tulip-shaped glass for the full effect, but the only Scottish person currently [...]

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*INEVITABLE COMPARISON TO PORTAL* Now that’s out of the way, let’s all drool over Kim Swift’s upcoming Quantum Conundrum, which looks like what a computer game would look like if Pixar made computer games. That’s just a fact rather than a wild, hastily decided upon and ill-conceived opinion based on eight minutes of footage shown [...]

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