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Lego weaponry
So you thought you were good with Lego? Jack Streat, a British 15 year old has garnered quite a following for his fully working lego guns. After construction, he takes videos of them target shooting in...
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To the Edge of the World
Dutch artist Robert Overweg is, in his own words, a photographer in the virtual world. The worlds designed in first (and third) person shooters, in his artistic vision, are the new spaces where...
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Andy Rooney On Teams and Fortresses
I don’t know what’s happening to gaming these days. In my day you had a fortress, you had a team, and you just went at it. It was like tag or flag football, the bedrock of any small town community. I...
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The aesthetics of blowing stuff up from a first-person vs. top-down perspective
The recent release of Valve’s free Alien Swarm got me inspired to write about the difference in aesthetics and gameplay between first-person and top-down shooters. (One could say this is a think-piece...
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Research subjects apply here.
Metafilter user a sourceless light is working on an undergraduate anthropology thesis revolving around FPSs. She’s looking to interview FPS players and modders from Doom onward with a focus on Valve...
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May the Mods be With You, a List of Star Wars Mods (Part 1)
So if you’ve been playing PC games long enough, you probably feel like every game that comes out that isn’t already one of LucasArts’ 12 Million Star Wars games has its own Star Wars mod. Well, you...
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L4D2 NPC’s and Infected Rejected Out Of Hand
Oil Derrick Worker You never see them, because, well, they’re kinda isolated, but you hear reports about them, and they sound terrifying. Tai Chi Master If you ever swing that ax faster than an heavily...
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