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Brian Crecente

  • Contributor and Founder, Pad and Pixel, LLC, Freelance
New York
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Cuba: Where underground arcades, secret networks and piracy are a way of life

Cuba: Where underground arcades, secret networks and piracy are a way of life

Polygon — Like its music, like its art, Cuba is a complex, colorful mash-up of dichotomous ideas, cultures and emotions. Nothing better describes the island nation than the image of a doctor dressed as a revolutionary, a crumbling wall amidst towering, colorful homes and, most recently, hundreds huddled in darkened WiFi parks, their faces alight in the glow of cell phones.
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Competition will drive success of Nintendo Switch more than Zelda or Mario

Competition will drive success of Nintendo Switch more than Zelda or Mario

Polygon — Redefining esports
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When pigs flew: The strange history of Capcom's Big Bang Bar

When pigs flew: The strange history of Capcom's Big Bang Bar

Polygon — When I first heard the story, I thought it was an urban legend. Like Mikey's stomach, infused with a deadly cocktail of Pop Rocks and Coca-Cola. Or Walt Disney's frozen body awaiting a return to a perfect future world. Always affable, nearly famous Todd Tuckey has a way of making anything sound like an urban legend when he talks.
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The Division isn't just Ubisoft's next game, it's the company's future

The Division isn't just Ubisoft's next game, it's the company's future

Polygon — This week doesn't mark just the launch of Ubisoft's latest new franchise with the release of Tom Clancy's The Division, the leadership at Ubisoft tell us. It's also the dividing line between the Ubisoft of old and what the future holds for the game publisher responsible for Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, The Crew and Watch Dogs.
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Time killers: The strange history of wrist gaming

Time killers: The strange history of wrist gaming

Polygon — Time killers: The strange history of wrist gaming
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Their future is Epic: The evolution of a gaming giant

Their future is Epic: The evolution of a gaming giant

Polygon — Take an exclusive in-depth look at how Epic Games has evolved from Gears of War into "Epic 4.0.
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VR's long, weird history

VR's long, weird history

Polygon — Time, place, even a sense of self can lose meaning in these creations weaved from the gossamer threads of fact found in fiction, the illusional fancies of magic realism, the mind-expanding nature of synthetic hallucination. But unlike the evanescent nature of dreams, worlds made in virtual reality stick around.
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Plague of game dev harassment erodes industry, spurs support groups

Plague of game dev harassment erodes industry, spurs support groups

Polygon — The greatest threat to the video game industry may be some of its most impassioned fans. Increasingly, game developers are finding themselves under attack by some of the very people they devote their lives to entertaining. And this growing form of gamer-on-game-developer cyber harassment is starting to take its toll.
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How selling used games marks you as a potential criminal

How selling used games marks you as a potential criminal

Polygon — Identified by eye color, hair color, height and weight. Then fingerprinted, mug shot taken, an affidavit signed. You've likely just been processed through the justice system as a suspect in a crime. Then again, maybe you just sold a copy of Madden NFL 2009 at your local video game shop.
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The Philosophy of Playing With Your Food

The Philosophy of Playing With Your Food

Polygon — It started out as a way to stop pigs awaiting slaughter from chewing on each other. But video game design initiative Playing with Pigs quickly evolved to become something more than a simple video...
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Curing the country of gun violence requires research into video games too

Curing the country of gun violence requires research into video games too

Polygon — Gun violence is so pervasive, so deadly an issue in America that it should be treated and researched as a contagious disease, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and...
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Guns, games and violence: The real questions you should be asking

Guns, games and violence: The real questions you should be asking

Polygon — Don't get thrown by causality
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War crimes in video games draw Red Cross scrutiny

War crimes in video games draw Red Cross scrutiny

Kotaku.com — One of the world's largest and most respected humanitarian groups in the world is investigating whether the Geneva and Hague conventions should be applied to the fictional recreation of war in video games.
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Have gun, won't travel: For the right price these gamers will die for you

Have gun, won't travel: For the right price these gamers will die for you

Kotaku.com — This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: "I will take bullets for you," it read. And he did. Contact made, cash transfer confirmed, Londoner Toby Smith met me on a bluff overlooking the border between Iran and Turkmenistan on an early December afternoon armed with an M416 assault rifle.
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Maria Montessori: The 138-Year-Old Inspiration Behind Spore

Maria Montessori: The 138-Year-Old Inspiration Behind Spore

Kotaku.com — Spore, Will Wright's far-reaching game about life, the universe and everything, is a journey, not just from microscope to universe, but of discovery and imagination. It's also the clearest example of how, in creating his games, Wright taps so deeply into the principals of his grade-school education which was based on a pedagogy built on child development first formulated more than 100 years ago in Rome.
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No Gods or Kings: Objectivism in BioShock

No Gods or Kings: Objectivism in BioShock

Kotaku.com — The sunken city of Rapture, a world of art deco aesthetics, neon sales pitches and looming architecture, is home to more than just murderous splicers and lumbering Big Daddys, it's also a surprising breeding ground for introspection.
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Jack Thompson: Dissecting one attorney's take on video games and violence

Jack Thompson: Dissecting one attorney's take on video games and violence

Kotaku.com — Just hours after the shooting on the Virginia Tech campus, Jack Thompson worked his way onto national television to attempt to tie the tragedy to video games - hours before authorities had released any information about the suspect or his motive.
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Dearly Departed

Dearly Departed

Rocky Mountain News — A killer and his three victims - case closed. But the cut-and-dried theories about Miles Dabord and Bison Dele have infuriated the brothers' friends and relatives - Dabord, a jealous misfit who killed his famous, wealthy brother, Dele's girlfriend and the captain of Dele's 55-foot catamaran July 7 in Tahitian seas.
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Gangs thriving in shadows since the bloody summer of 1993

Gangs thriving in shadows since the bloody summer of 1993

Rocky Mountain News — Dank pumped his legs, powering a bicycle around the manicured lawns and shiny cars of Highlands Ranch. He was 14. He was scared. He couldn't believe what he was about to do. Dank dropped the bike onto the front lawn, and his new friend glided in next to him and dropped his bike nearby.
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Shooting at cars spurs most discipline by DPD

Shooting at cars spurs most discipline by DPD

Rocky Mountain News — Cops shooting at cars spurred nearly all of the discipline handed out by the Denver Police Department for police shootings over the past decade. Four of the five officers disciplined for police shootings from 1990 to 2000 shot at people whose only weapon was a car, even though such cases account for only 15 percent of the shootings that left people killed or injured.
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Jolting Words From Jail

Jolting Words From Jail

Rocky Mountain News — He speaks of death and killing through pale, chapped lips. Watches for a reaction through pale blue eyes. Blank-faced, Sean Paul Hanify tries to explain. When I'm hurting somebody, I want to see them. I want to crash their skull. And I want to get them with that knife.
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How a Florida city used a 1,000 percent jump in speeding tickets to finance its police department

How a Florida city used a 1,000 percent jump in speeding tickets to finance its police department

Palm Beach Post — It was a sweet deal: Don't worry about crashes or road work, just write traffic tickets and rake in the money. In 1997 and 1998, the gated city quietly took control of three major roads framing its boundaries and began churning out tickets to nearly everyone but its own residents.
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Snail hunting in the moonlit waters of Florida

Snail hunting in the moonlit waters of Florida

Palm Beach Post — Jason D'Auria walks barefoot into the moonlit waters of the canal, pulls mosquito netting around his face and snaps on the lamp attached to his head. In the distance, pairs of tiny red spots gently bob on the surface of the water. "I like the night because you can see everything," the 20-year-old D'Auria says.
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