Author: Jack Slater
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Shameful Internet Shaming
Jon Ronson’s How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life: In the early days of Twitter, I was a keen shamer. When newspaper columnists made racist or homophobic statements, I joined the pile-on. Sometimes I led it. The journalist A. A. Gill once wrote a column about shooting a baboon on safari in Tanzania: “I’m told…
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Work It; Make It; Do it; Makes us DaftPunKonsole
Malik Dellidj made this awesome pseudo-midi keyboard on codepen that plays clips from Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Dvorak not supported. Qwerty and Azerty are good to go. Here’s the video for inspiration while you music. Our work is never over. When it is I need to go watch Interstella 5555.
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Peter Molyneux, Ass of Asses
Wesley Yin-Poole followed up on the Godus fiasco by interviewing the winner of Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity, the game where you tap on things and then win what we now know to be utter disappointment: During the early afternoon of 26th May 2013, 18-year-old Scot Bryan Henderson tapped on Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity cube for the last…
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Meet the Hacker Who’s Spent Four Years Inside Shadow of the Colussus
Evan Narcisse of Kotaku interviewed Michael Lambert about his explorations into hidden and incomplete portions of Team ICO’s games. Makes me miss Shadow of the Colossus. What an amazing game.
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Eurogamer Dropping Review Scores
Oli Welsh: Starting today with our review of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D, Eurogamer is making the biggest change we’ve ever made to the way we review games. From now on, we will no longer be scoring games out of ten. In place of scores, we’ll have one-line summaries for every review, and…