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A VR game designed to treat burn victims may have broader implications for military videogames.
In a recent story about war veteran and burn victim Sam Brown’s long and painful road to recovery, Jay Kirk sheds light on a new aspect of videogames designed for military use. Unsure how to proceed with a treatment that was causing Brown constant agony, his doctors finally summoned Hunter Hoffman,
Could Ariel Pink’s werewolf flick possibly be stranger than Keyboard Drumset F*cking Werewolf?
According to an interview in V Magazine, the alt-pop singer/songwriter Ariel Pink announced that he was working on a werewolf movie that he plans to produce, score, and act in, tentatively titled Bad Vibes. “Set in the 1960s, the film is centered on “a band called the Sunrise Majesty, which is a mi
Richard Nixon prepped like an RPG. What if the moon landing had failed?
The newest Final Fantasy game has a few different endings depending on how you play the game out. Thankfully, none of the endings are as harrowing as the speech Richard Nixon had an assistant prepare for him to give the nation had the moon landing failed: Fate has ordained that the men who went to t
Newfound letters from William Burroughs explain his writing game.
A new book compiling the letters of William S. Burroughs, the drug-addled satirist who wrote Naked Lunch, and my personal favorite author when I was a kid, will be released in February. A sample of the letters, ran by The Paris Review, shows a personable side of Burroughs rarely seen in his fiction.
Forget how education can be gamified, this company thinks its should be Zynga-fied.
A longtime supportive of innovative tech alternative, Pearson is now partnering with the tech startup Alleyoop to retool interactive education. The idea basically comes down to “structuring existing content like a Facebook game”: students search for help with their homework via the Alleyoop website,
Kickstarter of the Day: Participate in a Victorian seance in "Dust & Shadows".
Set against the backdrop of a Victorian seance, “Dust & Shadows” is a strange blend of theater and gaming. Dust & Shadows is part of the Unorthodox Arts foundation’s current initiative, ‘Project Gamestage,’ which seeks to take theater off the stage and video games from behind a screen. The shows th
You’re supposed to Google the answer to these puzzles
Google’s daily puzzle challenge is a great way of improving your search skills and learn something new. The riddles aren’t too challenging so they’re a nice break, but don’t threaten to spiral into timesuck of similar sites and games. – Adnan Agha [Google via Wired]
TED asks "What videogame shifted your perspective?"
TED’s new Conversations section has already sparked some great talk, debate and even personal recollections of videogames that have reshaped people’s perspectives. The list ranges between Final Fantasy VII, Ocarina of Time, Smash Bros, Bioshock and more. The anecdotes of experience and effect beauti
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