While his prescience has long seen online gaming trends coming, the cyber-geek author Neal Stephenson doesn’t like to talk about it. Nor does it seem that he is particularly enthused about the Internet Age. [The] use of the vast resources of a networked world to play games with mortal stakes is a c
A few weeks back, some interesting photos surfaced of a possible lego theme inspired by the legendary indie game title Minecraft that finally saw its official release in November. The idea was posted on the Lego Cuusoo website, which allows fans to post ideas and vote on new Lego themes. Minecraft
Kill Screen will be hosting an event at the New Museum next week featuring contributions from figures across the videogame community including acclaimed artists, designers, and programmers. From the New Museum’s description of the event: When are games more than games? When they are communicating wi
Sorry we haven’t done one of these in a while, so let’s make for lost time. Here’s your quick and dirty guide to mainstream gaming news: –Skyrim patch 1.2 messes everything up, no one but Bethesda cares. -Did you pick up your secret Diablo III code? –Trine 2 trailer and game launch. PC/Mac availabl
National Geographic, a magazine that requires no introduction, has compiled a gallery of odd and weird vehicals. Some of them are just more advanced versions of ones we know and love like the high speed magnetic bullet train, but there are some gems, like my personal favourite the revolutionary war
A new survey shows that women who play online games have more sex than woman who don’t, a statistic that has already started many awkward conversations in your World of Warcraft guild. The same survey, published in VentureBeat (with a handy infographic), shows that a majority of online gamers are wo
iPhone game developer Oli Christie has given up trying to get banks to help fund his games, The Independent reports. Christie, founder of Neon Play, says that banks just don’t understand the games industry, dissuading developers from trying to get funding. “Banks don’t tend to have a category for vi
In today’s installment of the Rap Map, we chat with Pill, the Atlanta trap-rapper signed to Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group, discussing his favorite games, what a Pill videogame might look like, and he divulges that Rick Ross owns an Atari. Seriously. Pill, are you a gamer? Yeah, I game here and the
Remember that calendar you made in elementary school to count down the days until Christmas? Well, kirkjerk.com has dedicated to posting one Yule-themed mini-game a day to help you relive those childhood memories. It’s a fine way to get in the spirit, in case seeing It’s A Wonderful Life on network
How do videogames change from things that we generally think of as distractions and become something closer to film, music, or poetry? One view is that we expand the definition of art, so that it includes disciplines like the sciences. However, as the Heideggerian opinion of Alva Noë, a philosopher
I can’t speak to how well this newfound form for Nintendo’s classic gaming console works, or how ergonomic the whole “handheld” component might prove to be, but the good folks over at slightlywarped.com have found an interesting way to resolve the compatibility issues older gamers wrestle with. So i
The data visualization firm Fantom have managed to turn the dull (well, at least to most) topic of population density into a visually interesting map. Continents are made up of dots corresponding to population density. The eastern seaboard is filled with tiny bright balls each representing a dense p
The International Committee of the Red Cross is considering whether or not the same standards that apply to war crimes should be applicable in games. The logic behind this investigation isn’t to punish gamers, but instead to ask whether or not gaming desensitizes people to violence in a way that mig
Not fond of goat cheese? Neither is YouTube user STuKKie86, who instead of eating it, used thousands of wheels of cheese and other foul-tasting foodstuff to test the boundaries of Skyrim’s physics system, turning unused inventory into a piece of performance art. Why is it that the only thing that in
Earlier this week we asked if the new Kinect 2 technology could read our lips. Well, now The Economist is telling us there might be something even more fun, or perhaps more sinister, on the horizon. Using a functional magnetic-resonance imaging (fMRI) machine in unique and interesting ways, the maga
Michel Ancel, the guy behind the classic platformer Rayman, recently admitted to Gamasutra that he was never that great a fan of Mario: “I will tell you something terrible-I don’t really enjoy playing Mario games. I don’t like gliding, I don’t like its inertia, and I don’t like not being able to giv
In a move that encapsulates the eccentric candidate, Herman Cain decided to quote Pokemon in his speech Thursday when announcing that he was stepping down as a republican candidate. “I believe these words came from the Pokémon movie,” Cain said during a speech in Atlanta. “Life can be a challenge. L
File this one under “cool stuff.” This was created by an artist and photographer named Luca Biada. Find his Flickr photostream here. This is just another reminder (that you probably don’t really need) to consider the beauty, majesty and intricate detail of most everything Skyrim. [via] -Drew Millard
Add this to the list of reasons you may want a dedicated gaming PC. According to a story from the Times Live, male PC gamers might have a legitimate reason to stroke their online egos. They may have more sperm than those of us who get by playing whatever games happen to run on our laptops. Argentin
Motorola, the same people who brought you such classics as the RAZR and Robby Gordon’s NASCAR car, is hard at work at the next generation of police technology. Their redesign of the police car gives it voice recognition, automatic license plate recognition, remote access to computer systems, and may
There might not be a more fascinating contemporary NFL player than Tim Tebow, an ostensibly bad quarterback who somehow seems to spend entire games trying to lose, only to not screw up at the last second and have some miracle happen. That Tebow is a staunch member of the evangelical Moral Majority o
You’re looking at the ingredients for the UXUS LIGHT_NESS lamp, which is a lamp that places its ultimate design in the hands of the user. Design Milk reports: The lamps are made of a frame, neon orange tape and a cord. The final product is created by wrapping the tape around the frame to create the
Minecrafters craft the darnedest things. Above is a replaying of the first level of Super Mario Land in Minecraft, and just, like. Holy jeez. The venerable Engadget reports: The movie, made by carpenter James Wright, Joe Ciappa and a gamer known as Tempusmori, had the guys running the classic monoch
Occupy Wall Street has captivated media attention, arrested the political and economic debates of countries worldwide, and sparked often violent tensions with police and local communities since its rag-tag beginnings in Zuccotti Park less than three months ago. One area of inquiry that has remained
I do not know what a Dual Resonant Solid State Tesla Coil is, but I do know that it can play the Mortal Kombat theme. Tyler Christensen goes to MIT and, like most MIT students, doesn’t care about his personal appearance enough to mind wearing this musical tesla coil around. You can read more about T
