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Tyler Hinman's life changed in ninth grade, when a teacher gave him a crossword puzzle to pass the time in study hall. Hinman, now 24, went on to become the Tiger Woods of word games, winning the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament for the past four ...
From CHRIS BAKER,
Wired,
27 Jan 2009
The game has you interrogating prostitutes, roughing up gin heads and cutpurses for tips, and -- my favorite part -- slicing open a murder victim and rooting around in their stomach for evidence. There are also lots of real historical documents and ...
From CHRIS BAKER,
Wired,
3 Dec 2008
Attention, New York City geeks! One of the creators of LittleBigPlanet will be speaking at the Wired Store this Thursday.
Alex Evans is a co-founder of Media Molecule, the developer behind the most charming, innovative and revolutionary game of the ...
From CHRIS BAKER,
Wired,
2 Dec 2008
Only in Japan would you find a DVD designed to help nerds practice making eye contact with other humans.
"I think the Japanese are shy people compare to Americans," says Yosuke Ito, creator of Miterudake (literally, "just looking"). "I'm not 100 ...
From CHRIS BAKER,
Wired,
24 Nov 2008
We at Game|Life would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to our pal, Kotaku night editor and Wired magazine contributing editor Brian Ashcraft, on the birth of his second son (far right).
Congrats also to Green Pixels EIC Dana Jongewaard on ...
From CHRIS BAKER,
Wired,
19 Nov 2008
Yes, countless other games have let you run and jump in 3-D. But Mirror's Edge is revolutionary because of the amazing immediacy that comes from its first-person point of view. That simple change makes
it feel like you aren't simply steering around an ...
From CHRIS BAKER,
Wired,
11 Nov 2008
AUSTIN -- The Austin Game Developers Conference this week played host to a small museum of priceless gaming artifacts.
The University of Texas Videogame Archive had a booth in the exhibitors hall at the Austin GDC. Chief among the archive's ...
From CHRIS BAKER,
Wired,
17 Sep 2008
AUSTIN -- Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling gave a fascinating lecture at Austin Game Developers Conference Tuesday on the last 35 years of game development, and the next 35 years of game development.
The presentation was framed as a piece of ...
From CHRIS BAKER,
Wired,
17 Sep 2008
AUSTIN -- Video arcades are dying all over America, even as they continue to flourish in Japan. So it caused a bit of a stir when Arcade UFO, a newly-opened coin-op shop that bills itself as a Japanese-style arcade, opened August 27 here in ...
From CHRIS BAKER,
Wired,
16 Sep 2008
Robert Ashley is a freelance game journalist and a color commentator on 97.5 The Brodeo.
He did a fun piece for this month's Wired Magazine on how to kick ass in Wii Fit without exerting yourself at all. Here's a snippet on how to ace the ski ...
From CHRIS BAKER,
Wired,
11 Sep 2008
