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My Draw Something Disaster, Averted by a Clever Stranger
He was a stranger. I knew his first name, and he mine, but that was the extent of our acquaintance. And yet, he and I were perfectly in sync. I knew his every move. He knew mine. And neither of us ever, ever doubted the other, or had to work to understand each other. We…
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A Backup Quarterback Pushes You to be Better in NCAA Football 13
At EA Sports, developers lug their consoles into conference rooms like you would with a laptop at your job. Larry Richart plugs in his, loads up a build of NCAA Football 13 and picks a game mode. Fittingly, we head to the practice field, the setting where he saw most of his action as a…
By Owen Good -
French Presidential Candidate’s Website Hides an 8-Bit Konami Code Surprise
Democratic Movement president François Bayrou may be a longshot in next week’s French presidential election, but he’s won my nonexistent vote with a secret NES-era message hidden in his official website via the Konami Code. Or perhaps my vote should go to whoever created his official website. I’m not sure how politics work in France,…
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8-Bit Inspired Disney Toon Wreck-It Ralph Features Villains from Real Video Games
Last month, we first saw concept art from Disney’s upcoming animated feature Wreck-It Ralph. Set inside the world of video games, the film features a game villain — the titular Ralph — in his quest to become more than the sum of his pixelated parts. Disney today released the first teaser poster for the film,…
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It’s Silly When Video Games Try To Be Real
Video games can be pretty silly when you think about it. Save systems, over-the-top fashion designs, even entire concepts that a game is based on can make no sense outside of the video game world we’re familiar with. What would happen if you made a video game real? Well, Final Fantasy VII‘s Cloud would probably…
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Which of These 15 Draw Something Player Types Fits You?
After playing Draw Something on the iPhone or iPad for any amount of time, you begin to mentally file your partners by type. Lihay Kalvo created this video to help you properly identify which category you fall into. Me? I fall somewhere between the one that can’t draw and the artist that saves the word…
By Mike Fahey
