I don’t know about you, but I simply can’t get enough of Best of the Year lists. I found the New Yorker’s list of best apps of 2011 amusing, not because the games on it were enlightening, but because the premise is this: here are the games that best pacify screaming children. I particularly enjoyed
Rather than make flash cards, Mark Twain measured out an 817-foot boardgame on his front lawn so they could memorize the complete history of the British monarchy. “When you think of Henry III. do you see a great long stretch of straight road? I do; and just at the end where it joins on to Edward I.
So your grandparents’ idea of gaming is Sunday night Bingo at the community center? Don’t knock it: This may be important for their mental health. ScienceDaily recently ran an article on how playing Bingo aids those who are aging, particularly individuals with dementia, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s
It makes sense that, in an age of LCDs, we find ourselves able to mold light much like we would clay. Tim Barribeau writes: PRISMA 1666 is an installation named after and inspired by Sir Isaac Newton’s famous experiments in 1666 on the refraction of light through crystals. First exhibited at the Int
Ever notice how old games couldn’t quite match the visual flair of their covers? Mighty God King uses Photoshop to make these old Atari games tell the truth. My personal favorite is the Tim Curry poster. His role in Toonstruck just wasn’t enough. – Josiah Harrist [news and image via Mighty God King]
Worried that late nights with Left 4 Dead hasn’t properly prepared you for a zombie outbreak, should a The Walking Dead uprising go down? Nothing screams safety like a semi-automatic rifle and these gory zombie targets, which according to the seller BLEEDS when you shoot it!!! [and] can be shot more
Feeling weighed down by the bulk of Skyrim’s clunky inventory system? Do you find yourself wishing that the system would get out of your way and just let you play? SkyUI, a new Skyrim user interface mod, lets you get closer to what makes the game special: the moments… when you are walking on a cobb
Mostly Dark Souls, games from the West, and iPhone games, according to a survey of 80 key industry figures in Japan. Here’s a rundown of the noteworthy: Keiji Inafune, creator of Megaman and long time Capcom bigwig, was still enamored with Angry Birds. Fumito Ueda, the director who bore the lavish I