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# Eternal Darkness returns, Roger Ebert talks memes, and a new experimental game console
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/eternal-darkness-roger-ebert-game-console-new/
- Published: 2013-05-06T13:02:10.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:59:31.000Z
- Description: Technology is getting strange and/or scary!
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

“I have had no children. I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes.” [Roger Ebert on 21st century mutability.](http://www.salon.com/2011/09/15/roger%5Febert/?ref=killscreen.com)

“I find myself in possession of what is possibly the most pathetic skill: being really good at a competitive game that I made myself and that virtually nobody else plays.” [Michael Brough](http://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2013/05/being-good-at-glitch-tank.html?ref=killscreen.com) on the vastly under-appreciated [Glitch Tank](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/glitch-tank/id490257878?mt=8&ref=killscreen.com).

“The more interesting side of the equation is what you can do when you incorporate physiological signals into the gameplay itself. . .We’re missing a whole aspect of experience. What is the player’s emotional state?” Mike Ambinder, [Valve’s experimental psychologist on the coming wave of neuro-games.](http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/05/valves-experimental-psychologist-discusses-sweat-detection-and-eye-tracking-for-games/?ref=killscreen.com)

Because levels created with an analog synthesizer are much much cooler than the ordinary kind, there’s [the unbelievable Ming Mecca videogame console.](http://www.creativeapplications.net/games/ming-mecca-heart-of-a-video-synthesizer-and-the-brain-of-a-videogame-console/?utm%5Fsource=feedburner&utm%5Fmedium=feed&utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+creativeapplicationsnet+%28CreativeApplications.Net%29) Yours for only $399.

[This Artificial Intelligence from Denmark designs its own card games.](http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23447-ai-card-game-knows-how-to-bend-the-rules.html?ref=killscreen.com) It also enjoys sunsets and brisk hikes in the mountains.

[The fuzzy origin of the QWERTY keyboard has become clear.](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-lies-youve-been-told-about-the-origin-of-the-qwerty-keyboard/275537/-?ref=killscreen.com) The Atlantic reveals the scrambled arrangement was simply a matter of user convenience.

How do you reinvent the atrophic slide presentation? With a hilarious motion-controlled videogame.

Oh yeah,[ *Eternal Darkness* returns!](http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/3/4297220/eternal-darkness-spiritual-sucessor-teased-shadow-of-the-eternals?ref=killscreen.com)

*Later!*