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Freerice, an online game that offers players a chance to earn free meals for those in impoverished nations, has launched in China, users a chance to hone their English skills while helping to provide rice to those in need in China and other parts of Asia. “We have always believed in the Internet as
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Steam Postcards is a Tumblr that posts game screenshots taken by Iain Andrews. Unlike most guys who take screenshots, Andrews isn’t interested in capturing action, characters, or even encapsulating gameplay. Instead, he takes shots of scenery, plaintive moments of quiet, computer-animated beauty. Ch
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Man, have we got the museum exhibit for you! The Computer Game Museum in Berlin is running a special exhibit on Atari’s 1972 classic arcade game PONG, considering the game’s social, political and cultural implications. They say: There is no other phenomenon that compacts the development lines of our
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Trust us. Shouts out to the intern at CBS who successfully screencapped this, because I tried and failed like a thousand times. (For the record, this is a trope from Star Fox 64 and later 4chan for those of you who don’t know.) -Drew Millard
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Besides a predilection towards wearing crazy military uniforms, of course. This is sort of insane, but Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi used to have an amusement park at his compound. The New York Times has the whole sad, surreal story of the the aftermath of his fallout in Libya. -Drew Millard
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What is the future of music and games? Billboard asks Kill Screen to give their outlook in multi-page spread. Oh, music games! Whither the mighty Guitar Hero and Rock Band! For the answer, Billboard kindly asked us put on our prognostication hat and look at the future of games. (Excellent timing sin
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From the vaults come this 2008 New Republic piece by Leon Kass and Eric Cohen on the Roger Clemens Steroids controversy. The whole piece is a marvelous read for its treatment of subjects like cheating, athletic prowess, and what it means to play games. Anyone interested in not just the legacy of the
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The above image is from the “Sculpture Forest,” a Japanese work that’s a hybrid of a sculpture and a playground. Check it and many other works designed to enrich children’s appreciation of art through play over at the Kids Web Japan website. We’ll leave you with a “inspirational quote” from the site
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Above is the latest trailer from the Lepos, an upcoming game that fuses street art with the arcade. We’ll let the clip do the rest of the talking. Coming soon to an arcade near you. (For the record, Jamin has one of these stickers on his laptop…)
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To celebrate the wonders of capitalism and the wonders of corporate synergy, GE compiled the coolest recreations of famous buildings and compiled them on Buzzfeed. Check out the list, and then go watch something on NBC. Or buy one of their ovens. [via]
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Open Source Ecology is a Kickstarter project worth donating to. They’ve reached their goal, but if you’ve ever wanted to be able to make your own tractor in twelve hours, it’s worth helping them go above and beyond. From their site: The aim of the GVCS is to lower the barriers to entry into farming,
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Art of the Arcade is a nascent website that showcases exactly what it sounds like it would showcase: game-related art, from shots of the Atari logo when it was still in its design stage, to some truly great illustrations taken from Intellivision’s gaming catalogue. The site’s still in its infancy, b