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Can Robots Teach Our Children the Future?
Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, thinks robots can do much more than vacuum our floors or perform a fan-dance. Previous “social robots” developed by her group have been able to display emotion in reaction to human prompts or even notice and understand
Flashback: Remember When Halo Was New?
With the rerelease of the original Halo: Combat Evolved on the horizon, why wouldn’t Microsoft save their marketing dollars and just use the same TV ads from back in the day? Well… That generic heavy metal just isn’t cutting it anymore. Still, remember how cool it was when you first saw that dude ge
These fireworks look awfully familiar…
This September, Rockstar Games will release a free DLC pack for Red Dead Redemption called “Myths & Mavericks.” To get ready, we suggest seeking out this box of fireworks not only featuring Mr. Marston himself, but titled after the first DLC pack released last summer. (As seen on Kotaku, via Reddit
Cheat Sheet 8/5: R3 goes gold, Bungie hints at a crouching Tiger, NBA2K12 trailer features 15 bball legends
Life is hard. Getting mainstream videogame news should be easy. –NBA2K12 trailer features 15 NBA icons. –Resistance 3 has gone gold, and dev company Insomniac Games wants to show you its trailer. –League of Legends offers new map and game mode. -Bungie hints at mysterious new title code-named Ti
Deepak Chopra and THQ want you to relax
Many games offer a spike in blood pressure. But few allow access to a higher plane of existence. Noted spiritualist Deepak Chopra—author of books such as “Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles”—plans to change that. His new game Leela will be published by TH
Mario as a Great American Folk Hero
Jeff Ryan, in an interview with Slate, talks about how Super Mario Brothers established videogames’ first folk hero, and how those games influenced the obsessive nature of pop culture fandom going forward. According to Ryan, “[i]nstead of passively ingesting their entertainment, they study it in min
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