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Toronto Film Festival to honor director David Cronenberg … with a game.
According to CinemaBlend, the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) is planning a retrospective for legendary Canadian film director David Cronenberg, whose credits range from indie hits and Academy-admired works, from The Fly and Dead Ringers to The History of Violence and this year’s Carl Jung character st
The first gaming expo held in Saudi Arabia.
Last November, the first videogame expo in Saudi Arabi was held in Riyadh. How was it? According to a firsthand account, pretty much like any other game show, complete with long lines, cosplay, and a Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournament. After finally pushing my past the crowd inside the entrance, I disco
Can we make ethical machines?
Are machines capable of understanding and abiding by moral principles? How would we go about teaching them ethics? These questions and more are explored in an article published by the New York Times entitled The Future of Moral Machines. The article explores the possibility that, as computing powe
USC film students use immersive card game to drive collaborative creativity.
Typically, first year film students get the shaft, not touching a camera until their sophomore or junior years. However, University of Southern California freshmen got an early taste of collaborative filmmaking this fall when their School of Cinematic Arts introduced Reality, a card-collecting game
PAUSE: The human history of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
Thanks to the new movie Real Steel, in which Hugh Jackman commands a large rocking and socking robot in the future, there’s been renewed interest in Rock’ Em Sock’ Em Robots. It turns out that despite its silly premise, the robot boxing in Real Steel follows the original theme of Rock’ Em Sock’ Em R
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