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Last November, the first videogame expo in Saudi Arabi was held in Riyadh. How was it? According to a firsthand account, pretty much like any other game show, complete with long lines, cosplay, and a Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournament. After finally pushing my past the crowd inside the entrance, I disco
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Are machines capable of understanding and abiding by moral principles? How would we go about teaching them ethics? These questions and more are explored in an article published by the New York Times entitled The Future of Moral Machines. The article explores the possibility that, as computing powe
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Typically, first year film students get the shaft, not touching a camera until their sophomore or junior years. However, University of Southern California freshmen got an early taste of collaborative filmmaking this fall when their School of Cinematic Arts introduced Reality, a card-collecting game
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Thanks to the new movie Real Steel, in which Hugh Jackman commands a large rocking and socking robot in the future, there’s been renewed interest in Rock’ Em Sock’ Em Robots. It turns out that despite its silly premise, the robot boxing in Real Steel follows the original theme of Rock’ Em Sock’ Em R
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We’ve all heard that mobiles are keeping us from working-but are they actually keeping us from zoning out? Nick Bilton has an interesting New York Times blog post about how mobiles are limiting the essential human capacity to daydream: Jonah Lehrer, a neuroscientist and the author of the soon-to-be
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Flash Flash With the recent news that Minecraft legos might be on their way sometime soon, maybe its time for Lego to get political. Parental discretion is advised. –Yannick LeJacq [via Slate V]
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It seems that even in a galaxy far, far away people still like to boogie. Rock Paper Shotgun have reported a little-known easter egg whereby entering the /getdown chat command will cause your character to switch into “shameless rug-cutting” mode in BioWare’s popular Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO.
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A recent innovation in sex education has interesting possibilities for social innovation in the U.S., The New York Times reports: In Chicago, teenagers can subscribe to Sex-Ed Loop, a program endorsed by the district that includes weekly automated texts about contraception, relationships and disease
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High Scores is over, and so is 2011! Our editor Ryan Kuo explains his beef with lists. Also, every High Scores voter’s ballot and commentary for your perusal, and the full uncovered poster we’ve been teasing all week.
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The great games of 2011 that squeaked onto the master list with one vote—but didn’t make the cut.
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While we were busy fine-tuning our Game of the Year list, torrent sites were tallying up the most pirated software of the year. Crysis 2 comes out on top in the PC games category in 2011. On Xbox 360 Gears of War 3 receives the same honor, while Super Mario Galaxy 2 scoops the title of most pirated
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Using a deck of cards and city planning skills similar to those used in Sim City, Jerry Gretzinger has been plotting out a map of an imaginary world, which has taken on a life of its own. The result is an endless, procedurally dynamic work of art that could be called a solitary game of Civilization.