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Military robot walks in time to ‘Stayin’ Alive,’ terrifies us.
This bipedal robot, called PETMAN, was developed by Boston Dynamics for the US Army to test chemical protection clothing (which is often very thick, so being able to move in it is a problem). Boston Dynamics put a demonstration video on YouTube, and then Tim Trusler put it to music. It’s kind of cut
A Dwarf Fortress with a friendly interface?
Dwarf Fortress is notoriously difficult to learn how to play, and also incredibly detailed. The dwarves you order around can go insane or lose limbs. Individual trees have unique names, though the ASCII-like art makes it hard to tell what’s going on for the uninitiated. One game with a similar feel
Adorable Scrabble poem in New Yorker helps you remember those tricky words like ixia and qintar.
The Scrabble dictionary is full of odd words that seem poised to give players excellent triple word scores. Often, these words are archaic forms or thrown in to make two-letter combos more exciting. Part of the game of Scrabble, in competitive play, is memorizing which words are allowed in tournamen
The hardest part of making Doom was not making a Wolfenstein clone.
Quora, the question and answer site that encourages users to take pride in their real names and coherent answers, occasionally features answers from videogame professionals. John Romero recently reflected on the difficulties in developing Doom: – – – Each person on the team had a hard time with whic
Overlooked amateur creations remind us that games are human.
What happens to those games on Newgrounds that no one ever plays? After they shrivel up like a raisin in the sun, Zero Feedback spotlights them. The Tumblr is dedicated to finding videogames on game forums that have received no feedback. The quotes that accompany the games asking for feedback are a
Space Invaders couch fuses IKEA lines with geek pride.
Videogame fans are growing up, and so is the paraphernalia associated with games. Instead of taping posters to the wall, fans can have chic furniture in their living rooms. This arcade-inspired couch and shelving come from Igor Chak out of LA. Chak describes the sofa as “an old friend that kept tryi
Hack the subconscious to remember your password.
Hackers may be able to use your brain against you, if you’re using an EEG-measuring device like NeuroSky. One brain wave that an EEG can sense, called the P300, signals that an object is important or recognized. Mind Hacks summarizes the study on P300 signals called “On the Feasibility of Side-Chann
Epic list of Nintendo Power fan mail loaded with geriatrics, Woz, raccoons, rappers.
In honor (?) of the demise of Nintendo Power, Slate republished a list of their favorite fanmail. The list was originally published when Slate was using Tripod which is a novelty in its own right, but the stories, oh the stories, of people with their Nintendo devices demonstrates how powerful Ninten
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