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Can gaming turn you into a war criminal?
The International Committee of the Red Cross is considering whether or not the same standards that apply to war crimes should be applicable in games. The logic behind this investigation isn’t to punish gamers, but instead to ask whether or not gaming desensitizes people to violence in a way that mig
Skyrim’s strange food fetish continues in these cheesy videos.
Not fond of goat cheese? Neither is YouTube user STuKKie86, who instead of eating it, used thousands of wheels of cheese and other foul-tasting foodstuff to test the boundaries of Skyrim’s physics system, turning unused inventory into a piece of performance art. Why is it that the only thing that in
The new Kinect may be able to read your lips. How soon before it can read your mind?
Earlier this week we asked if the new Kinect 2 technology could read our lips. Well, now The Economist is telling us there might be something even more fun, or perhaps more sinister, on the horizon. Using a functional magnetic-resonance imaging (fMRI) machine in unique and interesting ways, the maga
The Rayman creator doesn’t particularly care for Mario.
Michel Ancel, the guy behind the classic platformer Rayman, recently admitted to Gamasutra that he was never that great a fan of Mario: “I will tell you something terrible-I don’t really enjoy playing Mario games. I don’t like gliding, I don’t like its inertia, and I don’t like not being able to giv
Herman Cain, your best friend in a world we must defend, drops out of race; quotes Pokemon.
In a move that encapsulates the eccentric candidate, Herman Cain decided to quote Pokemon in his speech Thursday when announcing that he was stepping down as a republican candidate. “I believe these words came from the Pokémon movie,” Cain said during a speech in Atlanta. “Life can be a challenge. L
Here’s what a Skyrim environment looks like in planet form.
File this one under “cool stuff.” This was created by an artist and photographer named Luca Biada. Find his Flickr photostream here. This is just another reminder (that you probably don’t really need) to consider the beauty, majesty and intricate detail of most everything Skyrim. [via] -Drew Millard
Coitius Internetus: Your gaming laptop may be killing your sperm.
Add this to the list of reasons you may want a dedicated gaming PC. According to a story from the Times Live, male PC gamers might have a legitimate reason to stroke their online egos. They may have more sperm than those of us who get by playing whatever games happen to run on our laptops. Argentin
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