The ecoATM analyzes used electronics and identifies them with 97.5 percent accuracy. It then bids for the device. Right now, the kiosks are limited to used smartphones and MP3 players, but we here at Kill Screen think they are a natural fit for consoles and game handhelds, and not just because we’re
Gamasutra on the logic behind Sony’s unexciting Tokyo Game Show announcements: Taken individually, each item doesn’t sound particularly exciting (especially this far into a console cycle, when everyone is waiting for hints of the next-generation entries from Sony and Microsoft). But read between the
Not only will a Gran Turismo champ race at next month’s Petit Le Mans series, he’ll be racing Nissan’s futuristic and efficient rocket-ship-looking racer, the Delta Wing. For the 10-hour, 1,000-mile Petit le Mans race, Spaniard Lucas Ordonez will be driving, along with American Le Mans vet Gunnar Je
If you’re like me, I’m sorry. But also, if you’re like me, you played hours and hours Diablo 3, and you’re a little bit skeptical about buying another endless point-to-massacre fantasy game mere weeks afterwards. Kotaku has written up a frighteningly comprehensive – in that inimitable Kotaku way – g
Cultural relativism teaches us that no group of people have unique access to the truth, that the validity of beliefs and customs are limited to the civilization from which they spring. Oh gamers, we have been bad cultural relativists indeed! Where is the empathy, I ask you, for the piggy, slaughter
Everyone loves freaking out at a good-old Boston Dynamics/Darpa robot video, and here is the latest disquieting news: no longer will your cybernetic doom be augured by the deafening metallic squeaks and squooks of robot joints. Robot death is now 10 times quieter!
We all know we live in a future-shock security state with dwindling privacy and an increasingly tenuous grasp of our rights, but at least we have sweet, innocent videogames. Videogames which would never be used to spy on us, right? WRONG! A security surveillance firm is using Microsoft’s Kinect to a