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April 19, 2011, 11:30 am
“We need games that, while still allowing us the escapism we turn to them for, allows us a better look at the realities of decision making than “I ate your kitten” or “I will die for you.” — editorial from Bitch Media
Why Do Cheaters Cheat?
We’ve all dealt with cheaters at various stages of gameplay — on the playground, at the kitchen table board game, on Xbox Live. Their ways seem inscrutable. Why would you deliberately defraud someone if you’re ostensibly playing the same game? The New York Times this past weekend approached the na
New Tech Can Read Your Gender In Just 25×25 Pixels
8-bit crimes will be a thing of the past! The device is a video camera that allows a face detector to capture a 25×25 pixel cropped face image. A mask is then applied to remove the background and the image is then passed on to a classifier which outputs the gender of the person. It is interesting to
April 18, 2011, 6:13 pm
PAUSE: Space Invader chair is minimal, menacing. (via fanboygaymerjunk)
April 18, 2011, 5:20 pm
Finger Battle will destroy your iPod with the force of a million thumbs.
Go Ladies! Women Making More of Their Way Into Game Design
Exciting piece on the burgeoning of female game designers, highlighting Margaret Krohn (above) who went from QA to game designer at Sony Online Entertainment: “I started with ‘EverQuest’ and MMO-style games. That was back when there was one girl to every bazillion guys. Now it’s like I could have 20
The Human Touch of Rating Games is Getting a Digital Hand
Videogame ratings are far from perfect and the poor Entertainment Software Review Board is tasked with assigning moral values to the hundreds and now thousands of games that hit the market each year. They have apparently given up the soft touch of their human board of reviewers and turned some of th
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