Nintendogs + Cats for the 3DS is your typical pet sim. But for Jon Irwin, that’s exactly why it lacks the feeling of caring for a real pet: What does it mean to love a fake version of a real thing? How do we become attached to, essentially, lines of code? I guess if you zoomed in close enough, even
This is pretty cool. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Stockholm University have created a videogame that uses garbled speech to figure out how infants learn language: To uncover how spoken sounds are decoded, the research team designed a video game narrated in deliberately distorted
Chair Entertainment’s iOS game about repetition and replay, which received a big multiplayer update this week, is a curious one to review. J. Nicholas Geist takes a stab or three at it. Infinity Blade may be a commentary on the grind of gaming, the relentless churn of killing and harvesting to gain
This photo of camel thorn trees in Namibia is a photo. It’s not a screenshot from Outland. That orange backdrop? That’s a dune reflecting Namibia’s rising sun. And while the trees themselves look like etchings of a dream, they’re a very real part of one of the country’s largest national parks. It’s
The new book covers, for classics like Planet of the Apes and The Call of Cthulhu, are viewed with 3D glasses that come enclosed. Read the rest here.
This is a three-player chess board. That is all. Details and ordering info here.
A photographer made these eye-popping photos for the Metro’s 76th anniversary. See the collection here.
The somewhat cleverly titled MMOWGLI makes one rethink the phrase “strategy game.” Over 1,000 military and civilians will participate in MMOWGLI to come up with viable tactics for fighting Somali pirates. Those participating in MMOWGLI will play as members of the multinational anti-pirate task for