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Online comments are being phased out

Online comments are being phased out

"We thought about this decision long and hard, since we do value reader opinion," co-executive editor Kara Swisher wrote. "But we concluded that, as social media has continued its robust growth, the bulk of discussion of our stories is increasingly taking place there, making onsite comments less and less used and less and less useful."

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Video games aren't all guns and gore; artistic titles are on the rise

Video games aren't all guns and gore; artistic titles are on the rise

The Water Palace looks like a painting as it rises up out of a turquoise lake. Gray columns interlock at sharp angles and pink-capped spires point skyward. From atop a ledge, an armless crow-headed figure fixes its white-lined eyes on a lonely princess. She traverses a maze of optical illusions, eventually reaching a Penrose triangle frozen in midair. Featured prominently in artist M.C. Escher's "Waterfall" lithograph, the angled lines form into a shape that can't exist in real life. But those rules don't apply in the video game called Monument Valley. Developed by the small studio Ustwo Games for smartphones and tablets, Monument Valley was designed to be as entertaining to view as it is to play.

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