Aaron Rasmussen and Michael T. Astolfi are developing a game based solely on audio cues. Inspired by personal experience, Blindside is being developed first as a short, forty-five minute episode for the PC and Mac. It’s called BlindSide, and it’s one of the first games to bring a brand new gaming ex
That is, if you are Schrodinger’s cat. While the Zelda-verse has widely been speculated on, a new art book officially published by Nintendo, and translated by Kotaku, confirms that the series indeed branches into parallel universes sometime during, or soon after, the events in Ocarina of Time. At th
Adam Smith of Rock, Paper, Shotgun accounted for his year playing roguelikes, the cultish dungeon-crawling genre that is still going strong 30 years after the original Rogue. Unlike commercial games, rougelikes are tweaked and updated incrementally over many years, so Smith’s end of the year list is
Hope you brought back your old SNES games from the attic over the holidays. Here’s the SupaBoy! Essentially a non-proprietary Super Nintendo, available for $79.99 on internets everywhere. Buy it for your younger sibling and then steal it back from them when they’re not looking. [via] [image]
German auto manufacturer Audi has its sights set on a future filled with interactive LED roadways. Bjark Ingels shares his vision: If I imagine a city in 25 years’ time, the vertical facades appear unchanged, but the roadway has become a digitally programmable surface. Fixed elements such as carriag
Another one of my favorites from the ITP Winter Show was this Intimate Toilet project from Ji Hyun Moon and Ji Hyun Lee. The two creators were interested in forcing specific gestures (in this case, pooping) on users who interact with the device and I think they’ve succeeded! Just, um, watch the vide
Pippin Barr is at it again. Fresh off praise from Artinfo and Washington Post for satire-cum-commentary on Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present, Barr now takes a stab at Greek tragedies. Finally, the frustrations of Sisyphus, Tantalus, and others can be yours to enjoy and scream at. Pippin is tr
The best games of the year—picked over, rewarded, enumerated, and debated in our weeklong critic’s feature. Read and celebrate (or lament) the results!
One of the concerns people always have when getting a new tattoo is with their longevity. Is that quote from Dante’s Inferno that you now have plastered across your chest, I resisted asking a friend in college, really going to have the same impact in twenty years? Well, one man found a way to circum
Folk singer, beloved American hero and all around wise guy Woody Guthrie once made a list of precepts for the new year. Lists of Note transcribed the thing because it was kind of hard to read, but the rulin’s are: NEW YEAR’S RULIN’S 1. WORK MORE AND BETTER 2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE 3. WASH TEETH IF ANY
It’s pretty amazing what Steven Briand managed to do with just a camera and some paper. Makes me wish more developers would use stop motion (aside from thecatamites, that is.) – Filipe Salgado [source]
That’s what Steve Gillmor at TechCrunch is hypothesizing, at least: Today email serves as a notification service for social. I get social notifications both via push on mobile and email as an archive. The more efficient push gets, the more email becomes a redundant service. On iOS devices, I am now
Turns out, shame-based models for exercise might not be the best way to motivate people to get off the couch. And even if someone really likes data, monitoring their own vital statistics might not be entirely appealing either. But after leading an ultimately unsuccessful project at Google that promi
Vaclav Havel, the Czechoslovakian politician who presided over the country during its breakup, died on Sunday, but left behind his sharp critiques of Western society. Politicians seem to have turned into puppets that only look human and move in a giant, rather inhuman theatre; they appear to have
If you’re serious about Pokémon, then you’re going to get your ass to Europe starting March 3rd, for what’s basically going to be the NCAA Tournament for fans of the Nintendo classic. Here are some basic ground-rules for the tournament: You can build your team using Pokemon from the National Pokedex
Recently in mainstream gaming news: –Capcom announced today that an HD collection for Devil May Cry will hit the shelves on April 3rd, 2011. -A new survey found that younger gamers actually buy fewer virtual goods than older gamers. –Crysis and Far Cry developer Crytek revealed that the studio wil
In Pitchfork’s pop-culture slanted column Poptimist, writer Tom Ewing looked at the virtues and vices of the stream, the “ceaseless flow of information we access every time we use social media.” He ultimately compared its allure to that of playing videogames. According to Ewing, the common ground is
We enjoy the good bar visit after Kill Screen HQ work hours, so Mark Kleback’s Touch-Bar caught our eye the other night at the ITP Winter Show. Part Ender’s Game, part, um, Moe’s Tavern, it’s a great example of capturing passive activity (drinking) and turning it into something much more. See more
Yes, it would be another plastic peripheral game, but this time the controller’s in the shape of a director’s clapboard. Push the buttons at the right time to maintain the dramatic tension of the scene with the correct line. In the video, Ryan O’Neal is playing on Easy. And losing. [video: TubbsT
The Walgreens down the street from me sold a Wii game that consisted of go-cart racing with Santa’s elves. It had a goal, and it accomplished it. That game might not be fun to anyone over the age of ten, but it’s not a failure. Consider a game like L.A. Noire, however. That’s a failure. Or so Susan
Star Wars fans, unite and rejoice! For The Old Republic is out today. With that in mind, here are a couple of things that have been bouncing around the internet as of late. First, Kinect Star Wars is set to feature a dancing minigame, because everyone knows that dancing games for the Kinect are the
Ludum Dare, the contest that compels indie developers to churn out a game prototype in the span of 72 hours, has recorded a record number of 891 entries for its most recent competition. What has spurred so many game makers to throw their hats in the ring? It seems the motivating factor was the theme
A computer game planned to be developed by Iran’s National Foundation for Computer Games aims to demonstrate the objection of many Iranians to EA DICE’s Battlefield 3, released this past October. The game, entitled “Attack on Tel Aviv,” is a response to BF3’s plot, which involves a fictitious raid
