We’ve all dealt with cheaters at various stages of gameplay — on the playground, at the kitchen table board game, on Xbox Live. Their ways seem inscrutable. Why would you deliberately defraud someone if you’re ostensibly playing the same game? The New York Times this past weekend approached the na
8-bit crimes will be a thing of the past! The device is a video camera that allows a face detector to capture a 25×25 pixel cropped face image. A mask is then applied to remove the background and the image is then passed on to a classifier which outputs the gender of the person. It is interesting to
PAUSE: Space Invader chair is minimal, menacing. (via fanboygaymerjunk)
Finger Battle will destroy your iPod with the force of a million thumbs.
Exciting piece on the burgeoning of female game designers, highlighting Margaret Krohn (above) who went from QA to game designer at Sony Online Entertainment: “I started with ‘EverQuest’ and MMO-style games. That was back when there was one girl to every bazillion guys. Now it’s like I could have 20
Videogame ratings are far from perfect and the poor Entertainment Software Review Board is tasked with assigning moral values to the hundreds and now thousands of games that hit the market each year. They have apparently given up the soft touch of their human board of reviewers and turned some of th
In a GIF: All Hail Vector Bird This is “Lift” by Emilio Gomariz. (via nevver)
So this week, mindful parents around the country will be shutting down down their televisions for Screen Free Week, a national effort to curb television watching for kids. This seems all well and good — too much of anything is a bad thing. But over at Slate, lawyer KJ Della’Antonia points out that t