Flashback: 1973 ad for Magnavox Odyssey. Geography!
This first aired during The Carol Burnett Show.
Kill Screen Staff
1953 postsJapanese device designed to simulate digitally-transmitted "kiss"
A Japanese lab has created a device (above) that can simulate the feeling of kiss — transmitted digitally: “This device is for communications within the mouth, in other words, the goal is to obtain the feeling of kissing.” “If you take one device in your mouth and turn it with your tongue, the other
Software automates "That What She Said" jokes. Yay.
This is the future — wherein the greatest minds of our generation use natural language processing to create a program that adds “That’s What She Said” as a punchline. Michael Scott would be proud: Automating this process means identifying sentences that contain potential euphemisms and follow a part
Cheat Sheet 5/4: Cheap Wii, HaloFest, Game Composer Melee
Mainstream videogame news is hard to keep pace with so we do the heavy lifting for you. Here’s your cheat sheet: –Soccer videogames cause more aggression than first-person shooters do. -Wii drops in price to $150 including Mario Kart Wii and steering wheel. -Sony hires security consultants to track
After 29 year ban, Mass. town voting on whether to allow videogames in public places
I’ve been to Marshfield. It is a quaint seaside, South Shore town in Massachusetts with lobster and golden retrievers. It does not, however, have videogames in public. That’s why after 29 years, they’re voting to see if they’d like to reinstate them in restaurants and other public places. Here’s a c
New study suggests games make you more social, not less.
Basement dwellers? Hardly! A new study from UT-Dallas looked at server logs and player interactions in EverQuest II and found that the game was making people more social, not less. But you probably knew that… [via, img]
Fundraising website shows off custom art mashups for charity
A new fundraising website allows donors to make their own artwork from 120 different artists. [via]
Fan-made Golden Axe is on the countdown to takedown
A team of Golden Axe fans have created a new version of the game available for download for PC. You should probably grab it now as it’s likely to get the ol’ cease and desist any minute now. [via]
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