Earlier this week I speculated about the reason for the rise of Twitch and the new games voyeurs, people who watch others play competitive online games, live, from far away. Shortly after I wrote the piece, a friend suggested the real reason millions of people watch League of Legends and Starcraft r
Research psychologist Konstantine Zakzanis had known for years that the convetional tests for cognitive impairment in patients with disorders ranging from depression to Alzheimer’s disesase to post-concussive syndrome were unreliable. He even wrote a book about it. Frustrated by his inability to te
Lots of museum news today, what with our very own Jamin Warren helping to decide what video games are worthy of de Kooning and Brancusi. The other story, which might get lost in the shuffle, is that a playable replica of Spacewar!, one of the very first videogames, will be displayed at the Museum of
Last week at the London Science Museum, a new exhibition called Painless opened. It explores …pain through the stories of extraordinary people who deal with it every day – from the patient who suffers with chronic pain in his missing limb, to the man who feels no pain at all. How are scientists work
If you’ve got the time, Buzzfeed’s 4,500 word history of the early days of Atari and the development of Pong is a delight. Apart from what is clealry a still-simmering beef between Magnavox Odyssey mastermind Ralph Baer (age 90) and Atari (and Chuck-E-Cheese!) founder Nolan Bushnell (age 69), my fav
I come from a family of bargain hunters. We thrill to the discounted, the half-off, the outlet mall, the two-for-one. So I know a steal when I see one. And the Humble THQ Bundle, from the distressed publisher, is a goshdarn deal. You get: Metro 2033, Darksiders, Red Faction Armageddon, Company of H
The drumbeat of doom for Big Games has grown louder and faster this fall, as a mediocre crop of AAA titles fails to distract from dwindling sales. No one really knows how severe the decline of the industry is, though, because there is no way for publishers and the media to tabulate and compare digit
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime yesterday on next-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft. Dem’s fightin’ words!