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Sony and Evolution Studios have collaborated to bring you a new, beautiful, team-based driving game. The game has been in development for over 10 years. The game emphasisizes team-play and you’ll be a part of a driving club (that you can join or form with your friends) that competes with other driving clubs. The game allows you to drive beautiful cars that have been designed to look just like their real-life counterparts.

This game isn’t just your average racing game. Each track will be prepped with a variety of fun and engaging challenges. You can choose whatever weather you want and whatever time of day you want to race in. Every level is promised to be a new, and fun experience. Evolution Studios also emphasized that you will have 24/7 untethered access to your club. Races will be asynchronized and played in real-time.

There’s the first-person perspective that makes you feel like you’re actually driving the car. It shows “you” opening the car door, getting behind the wheel, fastening your seat belt, and taking off in your expensive, possibly foreign-engineered sports car. All of the cars are designed to look exactly like the real-life counterpart its supposed to resemble. The folks at Evolution Studios visited car manufacturers frequently just to make sure they have every detail right. While the cars may be digital, they’ll look very real and very much like they do in reality.

DRIVE CLUB will be one of the PlayStation 4 games that will fully emphasize social game play. Sony wants to make the PlayStation Network one of the most powerful social gaming networks around. This game will be a dream-come-true for car fanatics, and a great game to play with your friends. Check out the other games, and PlayStation 4 features, introduced today at Sony’s press event in the timeline below.

DRIVE CLUB revealed at Sony’s press event is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Nothing could’ve been more delightful than Braid creator Jonathan Blow suddenly walking on-stage at Sony’s big PlayStation 4 reveal only to make fun of all the explosions the event had already featured. Oh sure, he was also at the event to reveal that his latest game, The Witness, is headed to Sony’s PlayStation 4 (as well as to PC and iOS, as the reveal trailer elucidates), but the first statement was much funnier. Anyway, the game looks much, much better than the various demos we’ve played across the past few years — Blow’s been developing The Witness for quite some time, and showing it publicly, albeit never on a PlayStation 4. We’ll hopefully hear more in the coming days, so keep an eye out.

Update: This post originally stated that The Witness was heading exclusively to the PlayStation 4, when in fact it’s only “console exclusive” to the PlayStation 4. It will also launch on iOS and PC. We’ve added the new trailer below the break.

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The editors of the Washington Post have done their latest weighing in on the battle over the sequester, and, as Jonathan Chait writes on Wednesday, they are still doing that thing that the Beltway media do when they’ve spent too long inhaling their own flatulence — pointedly preferring one side’s policies (in this case, President Barack Obama and the Democrats), pointedly decrying the other side’s intransigence (in this case, GOP lawmakers), and then declaring that both sides are equally at fault for the impasse. “Yet neither party has staked out anything like a serious negotiating position,” write the editors. “Both sides are obviously playing a political blame game,” they add, seemingly without recognizing that their whole editorial is an attempt to win this “game.”

It’s all basically nonsensical. Matt Yglesias likens it to a sort of vapor-lock that afflicts the intellect when you decide that constantly re-reciting tropes about “seriousness” becomes easier than producing actual thoughts:

Once you embrace the Principle of Seriousness, the way is clear for rigorous BipartisanThink. If the parties fail to agree because one party is being unreasonable and the other party is failing to cater to their unreasonable demands, then the apparently reasonable party is in fact failing to be serious. After all, a serious proposal is one that stands a chance of passing. Reasonable proposals will not pass a Congress in which one party is being unreasonable, so by definition the Principle of Seriousness allocates the blame equally to both sides. Balance is restored to the Force.

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The goofy music video is self-directed by the boys and includes behind-the-scenes shots from their world tour — as well as footage from their recent trip to Africa, which Harry, Niall, Liam, Zayn and Louis have described as a life-changing experience.

Highlights include a guest appearance from Prime Minister David Cameron (?), dancing flight attendants and Niall hanging out shirtless in the shower. Yes, you read that right.

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Also, could you get that camera out of his face, please? He’s asking nicely.

For another independent cat, check out this video of a kitten who really wants her mom to leave her alone.

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