Who says that great game ideas have to come from professionals, or even adults? A seven year-old named Quincy recently emailed his plan for the next Batman title to Bitmob. The full text of his letter is below: I am Quincy and am 7 years old. I have ideas or suggestions for new batman game. Entitled
I love the wireframe machine guns. Source: Patrick Clair. -Jason Johnson
While the Cold War was raging, many folks turned onto chess and matches between the Soviets and the Americans were seen as extensions of the conflict. Even today, political struggles play out over the chessboard. At a recent tournament Iranian Grandmaster Eshan Ghaem Maghami refused to play Israeli
A brawl broke out among Black Friday shoppers at a Wal-Mart in an affluent neighborhood in LA. According to a bizarre and frightening account in the Los Angeles Times, videogames were the cause of the fracas. Lopez said that by the time he arrived at the video games, the display had been torn down.
When the robots take the planet over, they will make a videogame celebrating these images. More here. [via]
A recent blog post by Steve Silberman admired the sketchbook of Susan Kare, the artist responsible for all those classic Macintosh icons. Kare’s sketches played a big role in making computers more friendly for everybody, as illustrated by her iconic smiling Mac. The genius of Steve Jobs, Jef Raskin
Perhaps on a quest to roleplay a Mountain Dew commercial, a group of computer scientists in Malaysia are hoping to climb Mount Kinabalu and set up a LAN party. This would enable the 12 person team to play an online game against each other, and quietly ignore the majesty and wonder the mountain’s sum
A segment of a larger Spin interview with Tyler, the Creator of Odd Future offered insight into his influences: When did you get your first skateboard? I was 12, I got a Blind. I had no one to skate with so it took me awhile to learn shit. Did you learn from watching videos? Pro Skater 4. It’s a fuc
What do you do when your girlfriend cheats on you with a guy who really likes Alkaline Trio? Well, you could cry about it, or you could sell the engagement ring you got for her on eBay and use the money to buy a really heavy, hyper-realistic suit of armor, just like Master Chief’s in Halo. Eventual
Have you ever really noticed how doors govern out interactions within a space? Points of entry are something we never really think about until we don’t have any-remember when you played The Sims as a kid and accidentally boxed one of your Sims into a room without any doors? Having two entrances can
According to a recent study, kids with lazy eye who played one hour of videogames a day, using only their weaker eye, were very likely to improve their vision. According to one of the participants, “Playing the shooting games while using just my weaker eye was hard at first, but after a few months
Colin McGowan over at the Guardian raises the question of whether videogames can ever get sports right. His primary target is on sound glitches with the commentary, but his criticism runs deeper. So when Alan Smith praises a striker’s poise after the ball has flown over crossbar, he shouts ‘You’re p
The walkable, large outdoor sculpture Tiger & Turtle Magic Mountain is currently in construction on the Heinrich Hildebrand Höhe in Duisburg Wanheim (D). It overtops the plateau with the artificially heaped-up mountain by 21m | 23yd so the visitor can rise by more than 45m | 49yd above the level o
Researchers are readying augmented contact lenses that project images before your eyes—Adam Jensen style. While potentially not as cool looking as the Deus Ex hero’s Oakley-esque implants, at least people won’t wonder why you are wearing sunglasses indoors. The technology could allow wearers to rea
Somebody once said that comedy is about making the important seem small, and about making the small seem important. Games show up a lot in comedies because it’s easy to make the characters get worked up about something that’s not really that important. Despite the fact that these games are supposed
We all have our ideal game. Now there’s a company who can make that a reality. Participating in the creation of one’s video games is a natural step for the genre,” Mr. Bounane said. “It has reached a level of maturity and refinement light years away from the very first platform games. Abdel Bounane
Happy holidays from Kill Screen! Let’s eat to a full health bar. Here’s what we’re thankful for: Jamin Warren: I’m thankful for children. Richard Clark: I’m thankful that we’re not held responsible for the mistakes of our childhood (and that I never got on national TV when I was a kid). Jason Johnso
If your bucket list is anything like mine, you hope to one day take part in a real life Mario Kart race. I can only fathom that Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, had a similar fantastical wish. Under the guise of promoting the new Mario Kart game due out in December, Fils-Aime comm
In a recent interview about his game-poem A Slow Year, written for Atari 2600, Ian Bogost mused over why videogames are often compared to films and novels, when the closest analogy might be poetry. poetry feels game-like to me not because it is procedural, but because it is highly condensed… symbols
Wonder what LeBron James is up to during the lockout? He’s Batman. He tweeted: “What an amazing game “Batman Arkham City”. Just finished and beat it. Everyone who had a hand in creating it, I wanna say Thank You! #Gamer” Next, he plans on winning a title… in NBA2K. (via) -Jason Johnson
The Assassin’s Creed: Revelations team managed to recreate an authentic 16th century Constantinople, even though many of the buildings in the game no longer exist. [A]rt director Raphael Lacoste and mission design director Falko Poiker turned draftsmen. They made a research trip to the city (today’
A group of kids out of Cumbria have decided that the best way to raise awareness about mental health disorders was to create a game. Finlay Miles, 13, Matty Goad, 16, and Reuben Kane, 14, all have Asperger’s syndrome and came up with a design featured a character named “Naked Edgar” a cartoonist’s d
Welcome back to the Rap Map! Today, we talk to Dallas, TX’s own Dorrough, who talked about playing videogames with Slim Thug, gambling against Ace Hood, and his debilitating Angry Birds addiction. Do you play videogames with other rappers? The last rappers who I played a videogame with were probabl
Will Wright, acclaimed designer of classics Sim City and The Sims, is looking to create a new type of game. Dubbed “personal gaming,” Wright is trying to create games that shape themselves after the person playing them. “How can we make a system that understands enough about you and gives you situat
On the same day that Matthew Briet blogged about his Minecraft addiction, Translational Psychiatry published a study that linked videogames and addiction. According to BBC, Brain scans showed a larger ventral striatum, which is the hub of the brain’s reward system, in regular gamers… the region is “
