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  • A StarCraft World Champion Has Been Charged With Match Fixing

    He’s not even 20. But over the last few years, Lee “Life” Seung established himself as one of the world’s most dominant StarCraft 2 players. Life found himself in the spotlight for the wrong reasons earlier this year though when he was taken into custody by the Changwon District Prosecutor’s Officer. The Zerg player has…


  • Will The 21st Century Be Defined By Games?

    Will The 21st Century Be Defined By Games?

    On Monday, Kotaku ran Eric Zimmerman’s Manifesto for a Ludic Century, a treatise on the importance of games as a paradigm for understanding the 21st century. Eric outlined systems thinking, play and design as crucial future literacies and argued that games as an art form should not have to be justified.


  • A Whole New Way To Play Video Games: Standing Up

    It’s not every day you discover a whole new way to play video games. Yet over the past month, I’ve done just that — I’ve found a way to play games that makes me feel better, more alert, healthier and more involved. How have I accomplished this? I’ve started playing video games while standing up.


  • Which Video Game Controller Is Best?

    For this week’s Burning Questions, Jason and Kirk talk about video game controllers. Which controller is better, Xbox or PlayStation? What do touchscreens like the Wii U and the Vita hold for the future? Is the Kinect good for anything? What is the difference between “Effect” and “Affect”?