EA and Google are bragging about their 3D robot fighting game largely built by interns in HTML5, and they want you to start making games in HTML5, too, The New York Times reports. Their “Strike Fortress” is a test game, but one designed for more casual gamers—a challenge for developers to start thin
Somewhere between the cruel irony of being too uncoordinated to eat the $30 New York Strip on your table and the haunted subjectivity of Ann Hamilton’s pin-hole mouth camera is the browser-game Table for One. Built in Unity and free on your browser, Table for One has one objective—to telekinetically
Every game will have its cheaters, but according to Dan Ariely, professor of behavioral economics and psychology at Duke University, lying and cheating are hardwired into the continuum of morality, and it’s more malleable and nuanced than we often have time for. I’ve been talking to big cheaters, i
Photographer Henry Hargreaves, recently featured on Cool Hunting, envisions consumer technology as something harder to digest than we may want to admit. Inspired by an internet video of a Japanese youth deep frying and eating his PSP, Hargreaves decided to refine the idea by toning down the danger
Like the fine motor touch over the analog stick that turns your finger into a dead eye, the Microsoft Touch Cover‘s pressure sensitive features are subtle. So subtle, in fact, that the feature was overshadowed by the screen when it was introduced—but the technology indeed opens up pressure senstive
Tiny rhythm games are like glorified toe-tapping or dancing with your finger. When there’s no room to dance, dance, and revolt, try and flush the fever into your phone with Beatstream. The masterminds at Smule, who created Magic Fiddle, Magic Guitar, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina 2, and many other standout
Innovation often reveals itself as one long, circuitous process. Or at least it seems like it when we rediscover people like Thomas Wilfred and his early-20th-century multimedia inventions. As part of their “Original Creators” series, the Creators Project recently remembered Thomas Wilfred. Coming
If anything can come out of Penn and Teller joining the debate to haughtily call bullshit on politicians’ war on violent videogames, it’s a surprisingly sympathetic defense of the videogame medium in general. In a recent interview with Game Informer, Teller lets down his spiked Libertarian guard for