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What would it be like to control games with your mind?
All things considered, the XBox Kinect is pretty damn impressive-who would have thought that one day we’d just be able to play videogames by moving our bodies? Well, scientists at MIT might have one-upped Kinect. By a lot. Researchers are working with the brain’s alpha waves — neural oscillations in
Want to dance? On a Computer?
Above is a screen shot from Zorba, a new dance game by Kill Screen’s own Pippin Barr. As for the gameplay, imagine Dance Dance Revolution crossed with the video for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” video, as played by your fingers. Play it at Pippin’s site. He says of the game: Dance?! Did you say d
UCLA adds extreme pain to the game of hangman
Another day, another spin on hangman from the kind kids at UCLA’s Game Lab: This game takes hangman and adds ear-splitting sirens and physical pain. Players attach the aluminum foil mask to their heads/faces and input letter guesses by banging their head against whatever they choose to place the foi
Because Sometimes You Have To Read Something About David Foster Wallace
The New York Times has an interesting piece up discussing David Foster Wallace’s latent effect on criticism. The piece is fairly damning in its own way, and basically says DFW got away with writing like how a stoned college kid thinks and made the rest of us think we could do the same. Except, the p
Father and son play Pac-Man in their living room-literally
Ten bucks says this guy set the tape for the course up from memory. [via]
Can games create shared memory?
That’s what Iran’s hoping for, at least. The Iran National Foundation of Computer Games recently announced four new titles, each concerned with the 1980-‘88 Iran-Iraq war. The games Alvatan Battle, Breaking the Siege of Abadan, Battle of Kheybar and Partisan are on the Iran-Iraq war known as the Sac
Practice your binary skills, play hangman
This video of college kids arguing over their digital hangman game is sort of adorable. They made the thing, too. From the UCLA Game Lab: In this digital form of hangman, players use the five buttons to input letter guesses in binary form (1 = A, 26 = Z) to find the randomly-chosen five-letter word.
November 8, 2011, 12:49 pm
ghostfable: The Pixelated World of Shawn Smith “My work investigates the slippery intersection between the digital world and reality. Specifically, I am interested in how we experience nature through technology. When we see images of nature on TV or on a computer screen, we feel that we are seeing n
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