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Microsoft Says Goodbye To Clip Art

December 2, 2014 • Microsoft announced that it is eliminating clip art libraries from its suite of Office productivity software, and replacing it with Bing Image search. But the iconic illustrations may live on.

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Q&A: Nintendo President Says Don't Count Out Mario

June 12, 2014 • The once-powerful name in gaming has been relegated to third-place status in recent years. Nintendo of America chief Reggie Fils-Aime says Mario and other franchises are key to the company's future.

Microsoft And Sony Kick Off E3 With Dueling Announcements

June 10, 2014 • Every year, gamers turn their eyes to Los Angeles for E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo. It's the annual video game industry convention.

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Joust To The Music: Video Game Evolves Beyond The Screen

May 9, 2014 • A new high-tech game is a little like musical-chairs-meets-tag. Johann Sebastian Joust is a video game — but without the video. A technology expert sees it as a return to traditional types of play.

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Broken Age's Adventure Started Long Before Pressing Start

February 8, 2014 • The new game Broken Age is an intentional throwback to the old-school adventure genre. But the story of how the game was made is just as interesting as the one it tells.

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In Gaming, A Shift From Enemies To Emotions

January 7, 2014 • Many of these "empathy games" focus on smaller, more personal stories about everyday people. Today's developers grew up with the medium, says one designer. For them, it's "natural to consider that you can have a game about anything."

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Disney Rolls Characters Together In New Video Game

June 24, 2013 • Disney is about to release the video game Disney: Infinity. Each game comes with a collectible toy figurine that activates parts of the game when placed on a special base. In the game, different Disney characters will interact with each other. Captain Jack Sparrow can play or fight with Mr. Incredible in the world of The Nightmare Before Christmas. To understand the new Disney game, you first need to look at another game that's been a blockbuster for Activision, Skylanders.

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Jell-O Tries Out Edgy Social Media Campaign

June 4, 2013 • Jell-O launched an ad campaign last week called Fun My Life, which piggybacks off the profane Twitter hashtag #FML. Advertising consultants are divided over whether the campaign is brilliant or crosses the line of good taste.

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Re-Creating Indiana Jones' Boulder Run In D.C.'s 'Alley Of Doom'

October 4, 2012 • In an alley in Washington, D.C., strangers came together to simulate Indiana Jones' boulder run, using a very big inflatable boulder.

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In Warhol's Memory, Soup Cans And Coke Bottles

August 6, 2012 • While the cemetery that houses the artist's grave is conventional, the grave site itself is anything but. Fans and admirers regularly leave colorful mementos on his tombstone outside of Pittsburgh, and a local artist and Warhol historian even holds graveside birthday parties for the late pop art con.

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Book News & Features

'Lifespan': What Are The Limits Of Literary License?

March 8, 2012 • When an intern accused author John D'Agata of embellishing the facts in an essay, the two began wrestling over the writer's responsibility to the truth, and even the meaning of truth itself. The Lifespan of a Fact is the real-life record of their debate (or is it?).

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Movies

Swede Fest Attracts Hollywood Blockbuster Remakes

November 28, 2011 • There's a community of people who celebrate the films they love by attempting to recreate them using low-budget costumes, sets and special effects. The process, introduced in the movie Be Kind Rewind, is called sweding. Twice a year, these folks come together in Fresno, Calif., to showcase their work.

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When you sit down to play Risk: Legacy, you're not starting from scratch — the game refers back to previous matches. Hasbro game designer Rob Daviau says the new version of Risk plays around "with the assumptions of what a board game should and shouldn't be." Hasbro hide caption

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