Aram Bartholl’s Amazing Video Game Art Installations

Here are six of Bartholl’s gaming themed works, presented with a bit of background on the games that inspired them.

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‘Prankster’s’ Racial Slur Found in Minecraft Won’t Be Removed til Next Update

Minecraft’s head developer has elaborated on how a racial slur made it into a “snapshot build” of Minecraft’s PC version, noting that it was not pushed to all users.

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Best team in the world? Miserable England bowled out for just 72 en route to series defeat

England have lost the second Test and the three-match series against Pakistan after a humiliating collapse on day four. The tourists were chasing 145 to win the Test after Monty Panesar took six wickets.

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Minecraft t Adds Tamable Ocelots, Smart Skeletons

Time to check “dominate the world with a cat army”. Minecraft now has kitties! Well, technically they’re ocelots, but watch the trailer after the break and try to tell me you don’t want to attach grammatically incorrect witticisms to those things right this very second.

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Minecraft Leaking into the Real World

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Star Wars The Old Republic : What Can I Do at Level 50?

The hardcore may have reached the game’s level 50 cap weeks ago, but more players are just now nearing the limit. Here’s what you can do. It’s been over a month since the launch of BioWare’s stellar (pun totally intended) MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic.

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Battlefield 3 to get American-based DLC?

New York City, Miami, New Jersey and LA are all possible locations for the next Battlefield 3 map pack.

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How next-generation consoles may eliminate the used gaming market

While internal teams at Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are all hard at work designing and revising new console hardware, at least one next-generation console manufacturer may implement a way to kill used game sales faster than digital downloads.

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Video Game Hardware sales figures for 2011 revealed – 360 and PS3 both sell 11 million

In an interesting twist, it looks like the 360 has clawed back the lead built up by the PS3 due to the holidays in the US. Both the consoles sell 11 million each.

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New 2D Mario Coming to 3DS

Buried in its latest fiscal report, Nintendo revealed it plans to bring Mario back to the 3DS within its next fiscal year – this time in 2D.

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