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Do you own a cat? Do you also own a tablet? Now you can bring these two parts of your life together, because Friskies has released three new games designed exclusively for cats. The three games, Cat Fishing, Tasty Treasures Hunt and Party Mix-Up are the product of some serious feline research: “To
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Ever been told not to sit too close to a screen because it might damage your eyes? Researchers and the University of Manchester have found a way around that. Sort of. They have developed a new game that allows kids as young as four to sit still long enough for them to check for things like glaucoma
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The human brain is an elusive, enigmatic thing. It can produce stunning intellectual achievement or irredeemable inanity. It loves a good puzzle almost as much as it loves shiny objects. Dan Gould’s detailing of the psychological goldmine that are videogames shows how game designers know how to woo
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California’s Michael Ford likes to breathe life into dusty old arcade machines. But Ford decided to rummage through some of America’s older, dirtier forms of cabinet entertainment and make a good old-fashioned peep-show, spiffy and shiny and as dirty as it should be. He explains why he made it: “I b
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Jason Johnson sees James Silva’s The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile as a gory dance that toys with our expectations: We call it play, but our options in a videogame are generally so narrow that it feels more like being dominated. A cold and mechanical algorithm looms over us, and all we can do is push l
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Those familiar with the cinematic work of Takashi Miike may recall his gruesome productions Audition and Ichi the Killer. His work isn’t exactly known for being family friendly. But Miike, while presenting his new film, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, suggested his up
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Renaissance man and GIRP creator Bennett Foddy spoke to us about making games, making music and being a philosopher at Oxford: I used to keep it a secret that I made games. I was worried that people would not take me seriously, but it’s gradually becoming a bit harder to keep it a secret … and I’ve
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When most people see a chatbot, they tend to ignore it. Clive Thompson, on the other hand, has a fruitful conversation with one that tries relentlessly to get his credit card number. Thompson has a very one-sided discussion with the bot, pondering the tests of Alan Turing and what it means to be hum
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Here’s a bite-size list of some mainstream videogame news from the past day or so. -Pick yourself up a Gears of War 3 replica retro lancer this September. -“Master” Toshiyuki Takahashi parts with Hudson Soft. -Activision release footage from Modern Warfare 3. –L.A. Noire is the fastest selling new v
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Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has kept on the cutting edge. This weekend he’ll be speaking at the 2011 Maker Faire, a wild showcase of avant-garde contraptions by inventors and designers. And he wants Forbes writer Brian Caulfield, and the rest of us, to put down the controller and find unusual kinds
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A very noble new game, developed by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine and spearheaded by Schell Games, aims to educate so-termed “at-risk” youth about the dangers of HIV and methods of prevention: Funded from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Developme
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NY Times columnist Virginia Heffernan’s experience with the History Channel’s iPad app, Civil War Today, made her wonder at the morbidity of virtual re-enactment, and how so many keep their distance from painful history: Any directive to relive painful history – and “preserve” it, for that matter –