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This Virtual Reality Experience Gives Users the Eyes of Animals

U.K. art group Marshmallow Laser Feast merges nature and technology to hack the senses.

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The Tetris Pumpkin Is Still the World’s Greatest Gourd Game

This guy built an eerily cool, fully functional LED Tetris game inside a squash.

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You Can Now Etch-a-Sketch Your Way to Zen

Designer Jonathan Odom developed XYZen Garden to bring all the benefits of meditation, with none of the boredom.

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These Video Games Might Actually Help Cure Depression

A game developer wants to submit his games to the FDA, and receive a medical seal of approval.

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Freshman Year Video Game Challenges Victim Blaming

The new video game that deconstructs victim blaming. Trigger warning.

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World’s Largest Gaming Convention to Indiana Gov: Sign Anti-LGBT Legislation, Lose Our Business UPDATED

Gen Con takes a stand against proposed Indiana legislation many fear could be used to descriminate against same-sex couples

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A New Media Artist’s 365 Days of Adventure in Second Life

The brave soul plans to spend a year living in and exploring its outer limits, creating a very long, very conceptual piece of performance art.

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Tour a Virtual Museum Housing Art Stolen or Destroyed by Conflict

Designer, grad student, and VR specialist Ziv Schneider has created a digital home for works both destroyed by war and stolen through famous heists.

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These Game Developers are Honoring Leelah Alcorn Through the Medium She Loved

Inspired by Leelah Alcorn, #JamForLeelah is exploring trans identity in gaming (and they want your help!)

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The World’s First Badass Educational Game

Amplify’s revolutionary approach to designing games for the classroom? Hiring game designers, duh.

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Follow the Crowd

Why online gaming may just be the future of science

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Gaming for Social Change: The Making of an App for Charity:Water

Despite the increasingly digital, mobile, and socially-aware world we live in, seldom do we see games tackling global challenges, let alone game companies that work with nonprofits on a game that can translate into real world impact.

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Playstation Thumb: Here's What To Do About Your Unhealthy Gaming Addiction

Like most vices and addictions, obsessive video gaming has proven time and time again that it's bad for you. Obviously, any activity that...

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Interactive Intermission: The History of Graphics and Games

Amazing performance at CeBIT 2013, the trade exhibition for everything digital.

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What if You Could Pay for College by Playing Games Online?

Thanks to startup Grantoo, a hand of Texas Hold-em could earn you cash for college.