The best real-time-strategy players are like orchestra conducters—they lead multivalent campaigns for what can be hours without pause. But what happens when you change their best-loved instrument for conducting with a supposedly user-friendly arrangement? Reactions amount to a resounding “meh.” Enga
In a rare instance of a company wielding the power of the ending, Blizzard suggests Diablo III players maybe get up and go outside while they take some time to figure out how to get you to keep playing. But games are especially hard to quit, if it’s indeed a game we enjoy. So how do we take it when
Looks like biology is still our ideal model for technology, as these builders take a step back to try and replicate the complexity of the world instead of simplify it. From Wired: The research, published today in the Journal of Neuroengineering by researchers from the University of Arizona, could he
Franciose Gamma, Soul w/ Contour Barcelona-based Franciose Gamma’s synthetic treatment of human form is more like Rodin than what some call, vaguely, contemporary net-art. Subsumed by currents both transcendent and excrutiating, the figures combusted offscreen for the first time in his recent galler
For nearly twenty years, French cosmetics empire L’Oreal has apparently been using a game to recruit the employee who can shoot their brand into the next dimension. Perhaps to no one’s surprise, the game called Brandstorm (bold added for clarity, pizzazz) is great at naming winners, applicants who c
