- November 13, 2009 • 4:20 pm PST
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Poor Alex..

We need to bring this assignment back - post yours below!!

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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
If you're feeling particularly list-happy today, check out The 50 Worst Video Game Names of All Time. We have to say Panic Restaurant was a...
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Another, even more exhaustive report on the poisoned Russia spy. This is probably the most fascinating story we've ever come across, so we're...
The U.S. Army is using roleplaying as a new technique to train soldiers heading to Afghanistan.
Off-roading health workers are bringing medicine and care to remote areas in need.
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The filmmaker Eric Bricker takes us behind the scenes of his newest film project in our miniseries "What If...?"Something is not right. I...

A short-and-sweet game for those of us who can't stay up all night playing videogames anymore. "A Mayfly flies a single day / The daylight dies...
Videogame insiders discuss a lack of diversity in the industry-and what to do about it. Last week in Las Vegas, I led a panel at the DICE Summit....
This month, the Experimental Gameplay Project, a monthly challenge for game designers, released the results of their latest effort. They wanted...
How can video game developers help move the world forward? Martin de Ronde, founding director of OneBigGame, a nonprofit video game publishing...
Those Japanese. Their TV shows are so crazy. In this clip, you can see a Japanese game show in which the participants have to be as quiet as...
You understand that climate change is a big deal, but maybe you'd understand it more if you played a game about it. A complex flash game that...
In celebration of the primary's official end tomorrow, and the start of the NBA Finals last night, we bring you this slightly dated but still...
A videogame designer recently posited something interesting: Players are getting older, he said, and there's more integration between the lives...

Reviews for the innovative video game have been over-the-top effusive. It's “a masterpiece” and “utterly perfect.” They’re not wrong.
We've learned about robots that spy, rescue, aid, survey, and defuse. In the final episode of our "Military Robots" series, we encounter robots...
Attention middle and high school students: You're going to want to go to this school!

For October's challenge, we're asking you to get healthy, from your feet to your teeth to your brain.

Your favorites, like Angry Birds and World of Warcraft, are leading the educational gaming revolution.