Mike Schiller at Polygon relates how his daughter found relief from her painful coughing tic through the DS game Planet Puzzle League. Video games allow her to engage her brain in a way that forces her to process and respond to audiovisual stimuli, without the pressure to be evaluated that comes wit
MIT scientists found a way to get in physical touch with your Facebook friends: a vest that inflates whens someone likes something you posted on Facebook. Eric Abent at Slash Gear reports: The idea of this vest – which has been dubbed Like-A-Hug – is to simulate the feeling of receiving a hug from y
If you’re going to make a real-life Skyrim helmet, you’re all in, man. You might as well document the process. Volpin Props made a video showing the process. Commissioned for Dragon*Con 2012, this helmet was built to accommodate and accent the owner’s beard first and foremost. Originally the client
Simogo games, creator of Beat Sneak Bandit, is working a game called Year Walk, based on a Swedish custom of the same name. Typically a year walk had to be done on Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve, during the night. Almost all variations involve having to spend a full day inside a dark room. One was
In a ridiculous smear campaign, the Republican party of Maine says that Democratic candidate running for that state’s senate is unfit for office because of her “double life” in World of Warcraft (her avatar is above). Their website against her, meant to out her online persona, highlights a few crude
There are plenty of ways to make photo flashcards for studying. But what if you wanted to tell a story with your photos? A new app called StoryBot for iOS lets parents make stories for their children: You start by taking a photo, or using photos already stored on your iPad or iPhone picture library.
Remember Canabalt, that endless-runner indie iOS hit? Developer Semi Secret is coming out with a new game for iOS called Hundreds. It’s an arithmitic puzzle game where you touch numbers that add up to 100. Touched numbers turn red, and red touching red means game over. There’s a lovely site explaini
Simulation games don’t get the press and glory that AAA games do. But they are popular: Farming Simulator 2012 sold 500,000 copies in France and Germany, according to a press release from Astragon Publishing. Robert Rath voices his frustrations with the bug-ridden simulations, and wonders at their l