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Five Places to Play Before You Die
This post is part of a content series presented in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, simplicity is delicious. Have you ever wondered how people play on the other side of the world from you? Are the attachments that drew you to games that same ones that might draw another person to theirs? Is
Sexy airhead characters should be blamed on their creators.
There are a lot of gut reactions going on when a scantily-clad lady appears in a videogame. Things like “she’s hot!” and also “she must be cold in that.” Some of us might sigh in exasperation and wonder if there will be any real ladies in the game. An essay at J. Shea’s blog urges us to reconsider
Forty-four free online multiplayer games to start your week.
Many good multiplayer games require expensive things like four controllers for a PS3 or a high-end PC. But for those of us with old computers, there are still multiplayer, non-Facebook games available. Pixel Prospector celebrates their fourth anniversary with a video of 44 free, multiplayer indie g
PAUSE: Check out these custom, steampunk-esque 3DS speakers.
Remember when the Game Boy was little more than a dot-matrix with stereo sound, and required wacky contraptions like this to be played and enjoyed under many circumstances? Perhaps that’s not the case today, but these custom speaker/amplifiers are awesome anyway.
Here is a 3D map of the universe-four billion lightyears by four billion lightyears, roughly.
The Havard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysicists has released the largest-ever map of space, locating millions of galaxies, quasars, and black holes. The point of all this—besides tempting us to make a Katamari out of it—is to study the past six billion years of universal growth and find out where
Disney can now clone your face, put it on a robot.
In the noble pursuit to inject verisimilitude into the virtual, photorealistic videogames have gone at length to perfect face-capturing technology. Now, Disney researches have taken the captured data out of the database and onto silicon, around a head, then onto a robotic body. Science, Space & Robo
Japanese ruins tell a story; inspire indie game.
If your posessions were found in fifty years, what story would they tell? For one house in Japan, the ruins tell the story of a Western man with ties to the Queen of England who married into a Japanese family. Someone in the family didn’t like him, as he was cut out of some of the photos. Why did th
Nintendo linked to Congo-warzone controversy.
When the mobile game Phone Story was banned from Apple’s app store, it raised further awareness about questions of human rights violation that encircled the production of iPhones, from outsourced labor in China to the controversial extraction of precious minerals from the Democratic Republic of Cong
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