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Toronto street artist LEPOS has been releasing clips from a faux-arcade game that he created based on characters in his camp. His gallery opening back in November featured a full arcade cabinet and though the game’s not real, it’s a great homage. I may or may not have have one of these stickers on m

The year was 1975. MITS released the Altair 8800 home computer kit, bursting open the floodgates of the personal computer revolution. The same year, BYTE released its first issue, forever changing the landscape of tech journalism. Flash forward to 2011, and BYTE has found a new domain as an online j

Videogame parodist freddiew demonstrates what happens when you mess with the Prince.  –Lana Polansky [via]

Refresh yourself with some more mainstream videogame news! -Capcom has confirmed Mega Man Legends 3 is no more.  -Manchester City Football Club is kicking the ball around with EA Sports.  -Cliff Bleszinski explains why Marcus Fenix has daddy issues, among other things. –Silent Hill composer Akira Ya

Photography, Mario and Mouse Trap come together in this wild Rube Goldberg Machine brought to us by 2D Photography Inc.  –Lana Polansky [via]

No need to look twice; we assure you, this is real. And it’s a student project to boot. Did we already say that? No matter, because Arthur Nishimoto and the rest of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory team at the University of Illinois at Chicago have earned bragging rights for their TacTile tou

You may not realize this, but the absolute best venue for an extensive retro videogame tribute is the marquee of a Chicken Charlie’s at the fair. Starring a protagonist that looks weirdly like Star Fox’s Falco, this extensive montage features him shooting lasers, grabbing rings, and rescuing a Peach

Let’s speed through some more mainstream videogame news! 3, 2, 1, GO! -Forget simple PS3 3D gaming. Think more along the lines of virtual reality headsets.  -Director Neil Burger is departing from David O. Russell’s Uncharted story departure.  -Get some new details on Minecraft for Xbox 360.  -But k

Psychology and videogames are tightly bound together on various levels —one of them being how scientific data gathered from videogame-related studies are manipulated and interpreted by the videogame industry to create and market psychologically appealing games. But Stephen Fairclough, blogger for th

Ever wonder what exactly your friend, or boss, was thinking while you talked to them?  If Rosalind Picard has her way, soon you’ll be able to find out. Picard is a Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. Together with Rana el Kalioby, a research scientist who gave a TED lecture in June 2010 tit

Ultrawideband—or UWB—technology could possibly save your life: that is, if researchers can figure out how to create an energy efficient, portable, wireless device which can monitor your vital signs. But a research paper authored by researchers at Oregon State University says that this is entirely po

It has become something of a trend: countries using sim games as part of their military training. Australia has now joined the ranks of the U.S., China, Taiwan et al. with REFINE (Real-time Engineering Fleet training Interactive Naval Environment). The sim is being used by the Royal Australian Navy

Five-year-olds in 1986 are now thirty. And with the recent revival of burlesque dancing sweeping through urban centers and college towns, it was only a matter of time until childhood memories overlapped with the more mature pursuits of adulthood. Last fall, the Gorilla Tango Theatre in Bucktown, a n

Collect some mainstream videogame news, without the hassle! –Check out these new screens for BloodRayne: Betrayal.  -Get a look at the new Bastion trailer.  -See the creative process behind the upcoming Tomb Raider title.  -Videogame sales are on a down-spin for the second month in a row.  -Enjoy th

Fuel up with some easy mainstream videogame news! –Star Fox 64 3D has landed! –Just Dance 2 can whip out a victory jig since being named the best-selling third-party Wii game of all time.  –CoD: Black Ops Annihilation DLC maps will be coming to PSN in a couple of weeks.  -Don’t miss the dev chat for

Who says games can’t cause us to feel emotion? Phillip Toledano’s series of photographs depicts the best gaming faces of nine different players. We witness several expressions besides the stereotypical “killer face” – though it’s there a couple of times just for good measure.  It’s worth noting that

You’ll need to find more than 100 coins to buy and wear these pixelated shades, designed by Dzmitry Samal (above). Each pair costs 198 Euro, or around $280. According to the online product description, the design is meant to “deliberately [reflect] society’s fascination with an ‘informational aesthe

Actor/screenwriter —and voice of Solid Snake—David Hayter has his acting chops put to the test by host Cecily Jenkins on an episode of Youtube series “Nerd News”. Skip to about 5:00 to experience Hayter dressed as Solid Snake, headband and all, performing what begins as an aptly dramatic delivery of

It’s not every day you discover yourself explicitly recreated in a war game, but that’s exactly what happened to Lt Col Andy Harrison:   The decorated officer’s “avatar” stands in full British Army uniform, with body armour and an SA80 rifle in the game, which is set in the fictional war-torn countr

Dig into some more mainstream videogame news! -Check out the new trailer for Paradox’s Pirates of the Black Cove.  -Two million people heard the call to beta test Call of Duty Elite.  -Sony and Namco unite to form Cellius.  -Take a look at this gameplay preview of Steel Chronicle from Konami.  -Sony

Back in January, BBC journalist Paul Mason documented his attempt to re-fight WWII in real-time strategy game Hearts of Iron III. Playing as France, Mason was putting a historical theory to the test: if the Allies had declared war in 1938 to defend Czechoslovakia against the Germans, the war might h

How far do you think robotics have come? Before you can finish saying “ASIMO”, get to know the Einstein-resembling robot which, thanks to scientists at the University of California, has learned various facial expressions by looking in a mirror and mimicking (so to speak):  It randomly moved its 30 f