When I was growing up, games were demonized as the harbingers of bad grades. But games such as SimCityEDU, recently released at schools, are now seen by grownups as compelling ways to teach middle-schoolers complex systems. SimCityEDU is a mod of SimCity, the re-imagining of Will Wright’s world-fam
Gabe Newell, the C.E.O. of Valve, plays by his own rules. You can see this with Steam, the on-line service that finally got right digital distribution for games. You can see it with the Steam Boxes, the set-top machines that bring Steam into the console arena. And you can see it with the Steam Box g
Palmer Luckey, the outspoken, young entrepreneur behind the Oculus Rift, says the reason we won’t see his revolutionary virtual reality headset on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 is because consoles can’t keep up with the pace of technology. “Consoles are too limited for what we want to do. We’re tr
Hacking into an innocent bystander’s cell phone and stealing their currency is a criminal activity. It could land you in jail. We are not advocating that. We are, however, in full support of PKPKT, the mobile “in real life” game about standing on a street corner and fishing for “suckers” with open b
Words such as “tuberculosis,” “meth lab,” “illegal immigrant,” “radioactive,” “Hezbollah,” “southwest,” and “China” and 359 more are among the buzz words that the Department of Homeland Security actively monitors in email, according to a document made public a few years ago thanks to the Freedom of
