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Fast Company has an excellent piece today on how jihadist sites are using gamification techniques that have been all the rage these days. The interview stars security consultants Jarret Brachman and Alix Levine who also wrote a piece for Foreign Policy on the subject: Did any jihadist sites you enco
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It’s hard to keep up with mainstream gaming news, so we’ll do the heavy lifting for you. Here are ten things that happened yesterday in the world of games: 1. Deus Ex: Human Revolution composer says “transhumanist” themes inspired the score. 2. The Infamous 2 beta was extended due to ongoing PlaySta
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Forget Pokemon. The Times reports on an uptick of bridge among school kids. Their efforts to promote bridge among students have helped revive a game that peaked in popularity in the years after World War II, and have redefined it from a leisurely pastime for the elderly to a game fit for intersch
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Mitch Swenson spent some time reporting on the upheaval in Egypt, but found his most meaningful experience playing a videogame in the midst of “Tent City”: Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the revolution in Egypt, means “Freedom Square” in Arabic. And since my January deployment in Cairo, just before
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have released a virtual time machine — for pictures. It’s a super-advanced time-lapse photo system that allows high resolution as well as viewing changes over time such as plants in boom. “With GigaPan Time Machine, you can simultaneously explore space and time at ex
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“The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.” — Natty Nats
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At the the Future of Games conference at UCSC earlier this month, game designer Graeme Devine, known for his work on The 7th Guest and more recently Halo Wars, had some sound advice for designers looking to pull players into the game. He told those in attendance that Star Wars is the best gut check.
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Something to think about the next time you boot up Angry Birds HD or Superbrothers: Apple has come bottom of the most comprehensive green league table of technology companies because of its heavy reliance on “dirty data” centres. The list, which is compiled by Greenpeace and released in San Francis
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There’s a lot of gaming news out there. We know. It’s tough to keep up. So we’re going to make things easier for you. Here’s what you need to know: 1. There’s a new Wii coming. 2. Rockstar Games has released new screen shots of Max Payne. 3. Minecraft, that Swedish digging sensation, has hit more t
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The irony of a series about travelling the world, catching magical creatures, and then battling other trainers having a real life tournament that does those three things is not lost on us. The Pokémon World Championships are coming in August: he US rounds of the 2011 Pokémon Video Game Championship
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The man who invented the word robot almost named them “Labori” instead. Close call: As a word, robot is a relative newcomer to the English language. It was the brainchild of a brilliant Czech playwright, novelist and journalist named Karel ?apek (1880-1938) who introduced it in his 1920 hit play, R.
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VIdeogame makers spend so much time thinking about the future that sometimes we forget about the past. Wired has an amazing translated piece on the challenges that curators face in preserving old videogames. A must-read for anyone interested in either the curatorial arts or the history of games: In