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  • ZiGGURAT
    February 27, 2013

    Fun With Gravity: The Video-Game Arc in Angry Birds Star Wars, Time Surfer, and ZiGGURAT

    Before Angry Birds, there was Wii Sports. There was the stunt ramp of Grand Theft Auto, the big air of SSX, the power slide of countless racers. There was the lob of Halo’s plasma grenade, the rocket jump of Quake. And throughout it all, the man of 10,000 jumps: Mario, king of the video-game arc. […]

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