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The Shivah: Kosher Edition brings Jewish culture to iPhone

Dave Gilbert, our neighbor New Yorker and bossman at Wadjet Eye Games, has revealed that he is rereleasing his acclaimed point-and-click adventure The Shivah for iPhone and iPad next week. The cheekily-named Kosher Edition gives a makeover to his 2006 game about a rabbi unraveling a murder mystery.

This guy fixes Skyrim’s broken A.I.

This video breaking down the artificial intelligence in Skyrim is one of the clearest explanations of the problems with enemy A.I. I’ve seen. Using Skyrim’s user creation tools as a testing ground, the author tweaks the behaviors of halfwitted mages until they become adaptive, formidable adversaries

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