July 27, 2007

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Sugimoto's Puzzles, Munkacsi's Flair: Photography in California (Bloomberg.com)

July 27 (Bloomberg) — Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs are intentionally unsettling. At first glance, his life-size "Portraits" of English King Henry VIII and his six wives look like black-and-white reproductions of 16th-century paintings by Holbein.

LETTERS TO DATEBOOK (San Francisco Chronicle)

The Chronicle is puzzling, and that's good news Editor - This fan letter has been a long time coming. The Chronicle's selection of puzzles has got to be the best in the nation, and that includes my familiarity with the New York Times and the Los…

Reader Review (EuroGamer)

Sonic the Hedgehog was released on Wednesday the 11th to celebrate the opening of E3 and at just 400 points is was a very difficult offer to turn down. It puzzles me why they released it alongside the dire Golden Axe - available on the same day for the same money.

Puzzles problem (The Herald)

In Tuesday's printed edition (24 July), some copies of the puzzles page had a font missing on the Codebreaker and Sudoku puzzles. You can download a pdf of the section here…

puzzles of Chinese multinationals, finance, banking, outsourcing, foreign reserve politics (cmi santiago)

how to get best opportunities from rising China's finance, banking, investment, outsourcing, trade, education, technology and manufacturing? Get inside analysis from a leading strategist George Zhibin Gu.

GSN Tries to Camouflage Itself (MultiChannel News)

The network described Camouflage as a fast-paced game show of hidden-word puzzles with crossword-type clues ranging from general knowledge to pop culture. Contestants are shown letter puzzles and they must find the correct words hidden among the puzzle's decoy letters.

Puzzles problem (The Herald)

In today's printed edition, some copies of the puzzles page had a font missing on the Codebreaker and Sudoku puzzles. You can download a pdf of the section here…

"Mo to Come" with Health Adventure's new game (Asheville Citizen-Times)

ASHEVILLE - Got a knack for puzzles?

City version of historic puzzles business owner (The Oregonian)

UPDATED: :20 a.m. PDT, July 26, 2007 In the hours before Ikea opened, the Flying Ace All Stars, from Park City, Utah, performed on trampolines to try to keep the crowd entertained.

A Lyon's tale: Designing for homes and businesses (BizJournals)

Jim Lyon has a knack for solving puzzles.

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SHIFT: Why today&#39;s video <b>games</b> are so bad and how they can get <b>…</b>

Unlike last year when the focus was on the launch of two video game consoles this year was more about individual games, not so much the hardware. As a result there were plenty of titles to see if you like playing more of the same.

The Argument for Casual <b>Games</b> in the Corporate World

When I have talked about using game-based learning, I have always tried to help people understand that even very short games, what we'd refer to a 'casual games' - can carry the same impacts (while covering smaller slices of content)

the writing <b>games</b>

The chaotic image of two different games happening in the same space recently came to mind when I was thinking about the relationship between blogging and other writing forms particularly academic writing and journalism.

Robert Torres: <b>Games</b> and Learning Spaces

From the start, Katie, created a learning space within which game design was situated. We didnt begin by giving textbooks or a talk on the history of games or game design, but instead, on the first day, Katie started by explaining

Area/code: the dynamics of location-based <b>games</b> are very much <b>…</b>

We took this opportunity to interview with Kevin Slavin, Managing director and co-founder at Area/Code, a New York game development company focused on geo-localized big games and cross-media entertainment which developed Sharkrunners.

History of Video Gaming Course for British Students

My take: this is merely a continuation of the trend in taking various aspects of video games seriously as academic endeavors. In the D/FW area, when SMU offered a masters degree in video game development, it was big news.

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Late breaking news

Sugimoto's Puzzles, Munkacsi's Flair: Photography in California (Bloomberg.com)

July 27 (Bloomberg) — Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs are intentionally unsettling. At first glance, his life-size "Portraits" of English King Henry VIII and his six wives look like black-and-white reproductions of 16th-century paintings by Holbein.

LETTERS TO DATEBOOK (San Francisco Chronicle)

The Chronicle is puzzling, and that's good news Editor - This fan letter has been a long time coming. The Chronicle's selection of puzzles has got to be the best in the nation, and that includes my familiarity with the New York Times and the Los…

Puzzles problem (The Herald)

In Tuesday's printed edition (24 July), some copies of the puzzles page had a font missing on the Codebreaker and Sudoku puzzles. You can download a pdf of the section here…

puzzles of Chinese multinationals, finance, banking, outsourcing, foreign reserve politics (cmi santiago)

how to get best opportunities from rising China's finance, banking, investment, outsourcing, trade, education, technology and manufacturing? Get inside analysis from a leading strategist George Zhibin Gu.

GSN Tries to Camouflage Itself (MultiChannel News)

The network described Camouflage as a fast-paced game show of hidden-word puzzles with crossword-type clues ranging from general knowledge to pop culture. Contestants are shown letter puzzles and they must find the correct words hidden among the puzzle's decoy letters.

Puzzles problem (The Herald)

In today's printed edition some copies of the puzzles page the Codebreaker and Sudoku puzzle font was missing. You can download a pdf of the section here…

"Mo to Come" with Health Adventure's new game (Asheville Citizen-Times)

ASHEVILLE - Got a knack for puzzles?

City version of historic puzzles business owner (The Oregonian)

UPDATED: :11 a.m. PDT, July 26, 2007 In the hours before Ikea opened, the Flying Ace All Stars, from Park City, Utah, performed on trampolines to try to keep the crowd entertained.

A Lyon's tale: Designing for homes and businesses (BizJournals)

Jim Lyon has a knack for solving puzzles.

Recreation: Kids' book (The Record)

"What's a bird's favorite dessert?" Complete the quiz in "The Great Outdoors Games & Puzzles" (Storey Publishing, $9.95, 144 pages), and you'll find the answer is chocolate chirp cookies.

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