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Want to type like a movie hacker?
One of the hacker’s more elusive skills is to turn random key mashing into beautiful streams of code at a mile a minute. Hacker Typer makes it easy as kung-fu (for Neo).
Are social games killing the soap?
Experts think social games are at least partly responsible for the decline of soap operas. “Women at home used to have these virtual friends, these soap stars,” says Maria Bailey author of Mom 3.0. “Now their virtual friends have come alive, and they don’t need one-way conversations. I grew up on Su
April 28, 2011, 1:30 pm
PAUSE: A zombie-proof house. That is all. Wait, here’s more: The house, with its movable walls, has only one entrance, which is located on the second floor after crossing a drawbridge. More shots and details here.
Three-dimensional maps of reality…
Missile-targeting tech can also build gorgeous, 3D maps of cities accurate to 15 cm. “Unlike Google or Bing, all of our maps are 360° explorable,” says Smith, “and everything, every building, every tree, every landmark, from the city center to the suburbs, is captured in 3-D-not just a few select b
Today on KS: We review GIRP.
KS staffer Lana Polansky on GIRP, Oxford prof Bennett Foddy’s game about handholding: I can’t get to the next ring. That grey bird is sitting on it-and the next-closest ring is just out of reach. I lose my footing on that mountainside in Quebec. My fingers slip. The water rises. My nimble avatar plu
Today on KS: The outsider games of Patrick Smith
A look inside the mind of Flash developer Patrick Smith, creator of interactive sculptures Windosill, Acrobots, Levers, and more. The obsession with objects is reflected in Smith’s studio space. In college, he painted still-lifes of objects he’d find, and his current living space is admittedly clutt
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