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This Game Awards You Points For Smashing Real-Life Cameras
Gamification — the use of game mechanics in the real world — remains largely a joke, often relegated to a bullet point in a marketing strategy or manifested as an ineffective experiment. Some might even call it bullshit. But sometimes you see something noteworthy and interesting — and in this case, gamification has found an…
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Some Germans Want To Burn Video Games In Front Of The Reichstag
There’s a movement afoot in Germany to hold a mass burning of “killerspiele” — their word for violent video games — in front of the Reichstag in Berlin on January 27. Leni Riefenstahl died eight years ago, so if this really happens, someone else will have to film it.
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Can People Still Get Dead Island In Countries Where It’s Censored? ‘I Hope So,’ Says Developer
Like the original Dead Island, the sequel, Dead Island: Riptide won’t have a German release, because that country is really weird about depictions of killing video game zombies, who technically are not even human and literally are not real. The game’s creative director was asked if he thinks Germans are still getting their hands on…
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Pedestrian Traffic Button Becomes Video Game: Genius
You live in a city. You try to walk across a street. There’s traffic. You press the button and…nothing happens. It’s as if it was a placebo. Boring.