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Is it just me or are there more than a few similarities between this rolling robot and Nintendo’s shapeshifting mascot Kirby? It’s round. It’s pink. And it has transformed from a ball into a tire that spins incredibly fast, which is the best Kirby power-up, easily. This version of Sphero, the 2B,
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It’s a good week to be an Elder Scrolls fan, and not just because it’s so freaking cold outside that there’s a halfway-decent chance you’ll be able to spot the Northern Lights, reliving that magic hike from Skyrim. One reason to be excited is that the fan project Skywind—a remake of Morrowind using
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Bokida looks like Minecraft as envisioned by trendy European graphic artists. Just imagine the premise was tweaked from building unsightly brick buildings to building Abstract Expressionist sculptures. Another difference is that the emphasis here is just as heavily on knocking things down as it is b
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At this point pretty much every square inch of Earth has been recreated in Minecraft, so the web developer Rachel Carvalho has turned to modelling alien planets in the popular game about blocky construction blocks. Her project Voxel Mars is a Minecraft mod that lets you trudge across the vacant cavi
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We knew they were coming. We just didn’t know it’d be this many of them. Today we learned from a report on Engadget that there will initially be twelve, count ‘em, twelve Steam Machines. Brace yourself for a long list of manufacturers: Alienware, Falcon Northwest, iBuyPower, CyberPowerPC, Origin PC
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Here’s a feel-good story to kick off your week. A teenager will be kicking off the 2014 World Cup in São Paulo. The catch? He’s paralyzed, and will be assisted by an amazing robotic bodysuit built by neuroengineers at Duke. To put this in language that everybody understands, the device is controlled
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We’re taking the day off to celebrate the New Year and enjoy some pulled pork. See you Thursday!
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It’s generally accepted that crowd-funding services are invaluable to games, allowing creative types to get things done without the oversight of a greedy publisher, who’d typically push for safe bets. However, in a recent interview, comments by Tim Schafer of Doublefine, whose game Broken Age was fu
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Christine Love—the author of ingenuous, titillating, and culture-challenging visual novels—has announced her new game. There’s not much to go on aside from the title and the fact that it’s a dating game at this point, but luckily that title says a lot. My Twin Brother Made Me Crossdress As Him And
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Let’s review over our FPS terminology, shall we?
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In case you missed the memo, misery is a very good thing.
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Make the governement watch you play this crossword puzzle.