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If eye controlled games are the future, then the future is going to require too much concentration
Right now, you are using your eyes to watch someone play videogames with their eyes. it’s called EyeAsteroids, and it’s touring the country offering gamers a glimpse of what could be gaming’s future: Speaking about the new arcade game, Henrik Eskilsson, chief executive officer of Tobii Technology, s
SOUTHERN RAP MAP #2: PRGz
It’s time for the second installment of the Rap Map, where we talk to rappers from every region of the world (North America is the whole world, right? Cool.) about their favorite videogames. We’re starting with the South, and today we talk with Paper Route Gangstaz, a rap group from Huntsville, AL w
The new Obama ad indulges in speculative fiction
The new Obama campaign ad asks what would have happened Barack Obama had never won the 2008 presidential election. Spooky! For comparison, we’ve posted the trailer of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers below. WHICH IS MORE TERRIFYING??? [via]
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]
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