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Sheppard’s Video Game Pie
Batman: Arkham City
"Batman: Arkham City" is a worthy followup to 2009's "Batman: Arhkam Asylum," but not quite the perfect supergame I was hoping for. Full story
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Video Games Killed the Radio Star
Rise of Nightmares
In the 90s, there was this game called Legend Quest. You’d gather three friends and stand in a hollowed-out plastic tree stump in a shop window Full story
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Sheppard’s Video Game Pie
Gears of War 3
"Gears 3" plays like a polished "Gears 2," which played like a polished "Gears 1." It's popcorn gaming, but I think that's exactly what they were going for. Full story
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Upgrade
Sailing Drone
After visiting the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in June of 2010, a young engineer decided to develop an open source oil spill cleaning robot, Protei. Full story
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Upgrade
Upgrade Series Trailer
Higher tech for humankind. Full story
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Sheppard’s Video Game Pie
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
I've logged 60 hours on Deus Ex: Human Revolution so far, and I've enjoyed every second Full story
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Talking to the Future Humans - Natasha Vita-More
What will sex be like when we're disembodied digital entities floating around the matrix? Full story
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Sheppard’s Video Game Pie
Catherine
Vincent is 32 years old and living in a rut. He’s been going out with his girlfriend, Katherine, for five years, but they still live apart. Full story
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Motherboard
Motherboard Meets Evan Glodell
Evan Glodell is pretty good at turning hunks of metal into roaring, fire-breathing machines. Full story
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Sheppard’s Video Game Pie
Resistance 3
In "Resistance 3," 90 percent of humanity is dead, and the survivors are living in squalor underground, evading human-alien hybrid death squads. Full story
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Bodycount
"Bodycount" is an FPS. I am tempted to make the preceding sentence, and the legally-mandated italic paragraph way down at the end of this thing, my whole review. Full story
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The Learnin' Corner
Pili Power
Apparently nature knows how to make organic conductors out of proteins, and we find that very surprising. That's why it's kind of a big discovery. Full story
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Goodbye to Screens
Screens, videogames. Videogames, screens. They go hand-in-hand like Milo and Otis. But what kind of friendship slavery is this? Free yourself from the technocratic dichotomy at Babycastles, that arcade we've told you a bunch about on Motherboard. Full story
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Sheppard’s Video Game Pie
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is a beautiful little art game with brawler mechanics. Full story
Thought and Memory
New Fiction by Ed Park
Malaysian Neo-Nazis
Fighting for a Pure Malay Race
The Strongest Dwarf in New Jersey
Remembering My Tormentor
Gay Men and Their Misogyny Problem
It's Not Cute Anymore
Snooping Around Nicolas Cage's House
So Many Bummers
Saudi Arabia's Feminist Revolution
It's Not Happening