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The Verge
Google is shutting down Stadia
The Verge
3 min read · · Google’s cloud gaming service launched three years ago. · Shared by 113, including Peter Steinberger, Mike Rose, Rami Ismail (رامي), hardmaru, Steve Troughton-Smith, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Keith Stuart, John Koetsier, Kevin C. Tofel 🇺🇦, BrendanEich
Polygon
Why do we multitask while gaming?
Polygon
1 min read · · A perfect video to watch while playing a video game · Shared by 66
The Verge
I briefly played with Logitech’s new G Cloud Gaming Handheld
The Verge
4 min read · · A brief hands-on ahead of its October 17th launch · Shared by 63
The Verge
How Twitch lost the battle for its soul
The Verge
10 min read · · Everyone disliked that. · Shared by 72, including James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA
Polygon
Netflix’s next big gaming move is opening its own game studio
Polygon
1 min read · · It’s a step toward Netflix’s ‘vision to build a world-class games studio’ · Shared by 17
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How Game Design Principles Can Enhance Democracy
Noema Magazine
~12 min read · · Our democracies are already gamified. Our goal should be to do it better. · Shared by 159, including Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing
The Verge
Roblox is ready to grow up
The Verge
7 min read · · The platform will soon have immersive ads and age ratings. · Shared by 122, including Chris Messina, Zoe Scaman, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Matthew Ball
The Verge
Google is shutting down Stadia
The Verge
3 min read · · Google’s cloud gaming service launched three years ago. · Shared by 113, including Peter Steinberger, Mike Rose, Rami Ismail (رامي), hardmaru, Steve Troughton-Smith, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Keith Stuart, John Koetsier, Kevin C. Tofel 🇺🇦, BrendanEich
Rest of World
They built a Minecraft crypto empire. Then it all came crashing down
Rest of World
~18 min read · · Kids in the Philippines were earning hundreds of dollars from a play-to-earn Minecraft game, until new rules sent the community into a tailspin. · Shared by 105, including Neeraj K. Agrawal, Joe Groff, Kevin Marks, Michael Donohoe, Loughlin O'Nolan, Cory Doctorow
The Guardian
My online chess addiction was ruining my life. Something had to change
The Guardian
3 min read · · I didn’t like the person it was making me, but a few strategic moves later, the calm and mystique of the game returned, says Stuart Kenny · Shared by 97
The Atlantic
Chess Is Just Poker Now
The Atlantic
6 min read · · A cheating controversy involving two grandmasters shows how computers have transformed the game. · Shared by 88, including Charles Arthur, Josep M. Ganyet
The Guardian
‘I saw the possibility of what could be done – so I did it’: revolutionary video game…
The Guardian
4 min read · · The developer of the text-adventure game on how, at 20, she overcame 1980s misogyny to turn a Tolkien book into one of the most groundbreaking titles in the gaming canon · Shared by 84
The New York Times
The Gamification of Humanity
The New York Times
6 min read · · In “You’ve Been Played,” a self-identified gamer warns against the dangers of imposing artificial incentives on all aspects of our lives. · Shared by 82
Protocol
Netflix's mobile games are growing, and so are its gaming ambitions
Protocol
~13 min read · · A closer look at the company’s nascent gaming initiative suggests big plans that could involve cloud gaming and more. · Shared by 77, including Liliputing, John Rampton
Gizmodo
Why Race Is Still A Problem In Dungeons & Dragons
Gizmodo
~17 min read · · New playtest material shows publisher Wizards of the Coast is trying to move past offensive racial stereotypes, but isn't going far enough. · Shared by 76
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Quanta Magazine
The Secret Math Behind Mind-Reading Magic Tricks
Quanta Magazine
~12 min read · · Four puzzle solutions reveal different ways to divine someone’s hidden number with impossibly little information. · Shared by 635, including Howard Getson
theblock.co
How a fake job offer took down the world’s most popular crypto game
theblock.co
3 min read · · An engineer’s interest in joining what turned out to be a fictitious company led to March’s $540 million Axie Infinity hack. · Shared by 559, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Danielle! 🌩, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷, Digg, CyberCodeTwins.eth 👾// NINER FURY TANGO, Tactical Tech, Jeff Atwood, Cope, Taylor Lorenz, SwiftOnSecurity, Casey Newton, Peter Yang, Anna Irrera, Gergely Orosz, Mathew Ingram, Alex Barrera, Chris Fralic, Ernie Smith, John Koetsier, Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation
The New Yorker
The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
The New Yorker
8 min read · · Fourteen years ago, Kevin Kelly famously proposed that an artist could make a living online with a thousand true fans. Has time proved him correct? · Shared by 466, including Kevin Kelly, Katja Evertz, Merkstatt, Mathew Ingram, Tah Wesley 22, Kyle Chayka, Gerd Leonhard, Tara McMullin, Carrie Brown, Zachary Becker, Matt Navarra, Christopher Mims 🤌, Jonathan Kogan
Experience Magazine
How Wordle brought us back together
Experience Magazine
~12 min read · · Spelling Bee, too, and Words With Friends. Who knew online word games would get us talking to each other again? · Shared by 394, including Jane, Stephanie A Kowalski
The New York Times
The New York Times Buys Wordle
The New York Times
2 min read · · The word game, released in October, has millions of daily users. · Shared by 326, including Rami Ismail (رامي), David Wessel, Matthew Herper, Kara Swisher, Owen Williams ⚡, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Scott Galloway, Ben Casselman, Chris Heilmann, Sally Kohn, Nate Silver, John Schwartz, Joshua Benton, Joe Pulizzi I joepulizzi.eth, Brian Stelter, Brian Clark, Casey Newton, Anne Thompson, Mathew Ingram, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦
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The Kilobyte’s Gambit ♟️💾 1k chess game
vole.wtf
1 min read · · Can you beat 1024 bytes of JavaScript? · Shared by 293, including Chris Isak , Jeff Atwood, Neil Hart 💙, Michael Schär, Oliver Reichenstein, BrendanEich, Stef Walter, Christopher D. Long (Крістофер Д. Лонг), Chris Heilmann, Marcin Wichary, Nils Hitze, Brian LeRoux, Mic King, Oliver Raduner, Esther Schindler, Dan Wahlin, Tim Holman
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Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss on making The Matrix Awakens with Epic Games
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· Epic Games made an interactive Matrix experience to show off its upcoming Unreal Engine 5. We sat down with the two stars of the demo and the Matrix movies, ... · Shared by 288, including Mathew Ingram, Sebastien Meunier, Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola, tante, Chris Messina, Cory Doctorow, Chris Schilling, Kevin Marks, patrick h. lauke (redux) "Big Dog" #toryScum, Thomas Knüwer, Josh Olszewicz, Thomas “🐈🔭🕹” Fuchs, David Weigel, Jennifer Daniel, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷, Nathan Oseroff-Spicer, Alex B., James O'Malley, Battle David
WIRED
The US Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse
WIRED
3 min read · · Defense tech companies have latched on to the metaverse hype—but what they’re building will be a far cry from Meta’s virtual world. · Shared by 242, including ipfconline #CES2023, Brian Roemmele, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, Maneet S, Kelly Hungerford 🌻, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇
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