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Vladimir Putin gets the ‘Goldeneye’ treatment.
The notorious Russian Prime Minister and a scantily clad woman (except for the fur hat, because it’s cold in Russia) who may or may not be former Russian spy Anna Chapman are now appearing as heroes in a new computer game. Voinushka, aka Shoot’Em Up, represents Putin as a pistol-wielding, cool-heade
Board game designed to help the elderly remember.
A new board game called LifeTimes: The Game of Reminiscence rewards its players by stimulating their memories. Mary Jane and Carol McPhee created the memory game to help their 86-year-old mother, who is in the early stages of dementia, keep her mind sharp: “We found when we would ask Mom questions
PAUSE: Enormous infographic details the "End of Computers"
Here is the beginning of a giant infographic from OnlineComputerScienceDegree.com detailing the lifespan, and eventual end, of computers as we know them: See it in its full glory here. And dare yourself not to hear the original song in your head as you read it. –Lana Polansky
Today on KS: Nintendogs + Cats has its day.
Nintendogs + Cats for the 3DS is your typical pet sim. But for Jon Irwin, that’s exactly why it lacks the feeling of caring for a real pet: What does it mean to love a fake version of a real thing? How do we become attached to, essentially, lines of code? I guess if you zoomed in close enough, even
Researchers give word games a whole new meaning.
This is pretty cool. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Stockholm University have created a videogame that uses garbled speech to figure out how infants learn language: To uncover how spoken sounds are decoded, the research team designed a video game narrated in deliberately distorted
Today on KS: The Infinity Blade review writes itself.
Chair Entertainment’s iOS game about repetition and replay, which received a big multiplayer update this week, is a curious one to review. J. Nicholas Geist takes a stab or three at it. Infinity Blade may be a commentary on the grind of gaming, the relentless churn of killing and harvesting to gain
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