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How not to win at Kickstarter.
Kickstarter makes it looks easy to get funded for a project. Just put together a good enough video and people are dying to give out money! While it’s easy to see all the successfully funded projects on Kickstarter, it’s harder to find the failed projects. It makes sense not to show them to consumers
Think Japanese games are too samey? NYU has indies that’ll change your mind.
Japanese games are frequently criticized for sticking to a formula. Games evolve rather than innovate; even the latest Zelda game started out with three starter dungeons, as did many of its predecessors. For those of us eager to see radical new ideas out of Japan, indie games might be a good place t
New Tabor Robak art game takes aim at the uncanny valley.
We’re fans of combining music and games, as you can tell from our Soundplay project. Tabor Robak, who we interviewed last year at the New Museum, made a music game set to an entire 35-minute album. David Kanaga describes the game on his blog: Exo brings us face to face with tensions that have the p
"The world’s first intelligent textbook" comes with its own artificial teacher.
A new biology textbook called Inquire is being called “the world’s first intelligent textbook.” We’ll take that to mean that all the extra human cognition that goes into reading, interpreting, and teaching—like drawing larger parallels between abstract concepts, reading between the lines—will be spe
Disney Research’s REVEL turns your whole body into a touch device.
In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 Brave New World, “Feelies” are augmented movie theaters equipped with technology that manipulates the audience’s sense of touch. A sex scene, for instance, can be felt as much as it can be watched—i.e. the sensation of silken fur on a bearskin rug as lovers copulate on it. No
Papo & Yo trailer details alcoholic abuse and escape in the favela for anticipated PSN launch.
Papo & Yo is the forthcoming magical-real, semi-autobiographical adventure puzzler by Vander Caballero, a former EA Montreal developer who broke off to form his own studio called Minority. Here, a cinematic splicing augments the game’s deeply personal narrative: how the young Vander coped with his f
You can now detect radiation in nature with your iPhone. Phew.
New environmental sensors for the iPhone let consumers take stock of their surroundings. The nitrate sensor can tell if food is really organic, or if your garden needs more fertilizer. Three other sensors for radioactivity, humidity, and electromagnetic fields will increase the quantification and di
It’s 1990 all over again. There’s a new Neo Geo console.
Everything old is new again. This Christmas season, you’ll be able to get your hands on a new/old/newold Neo Geo console that features a station, a handheld (with 20 games) and a joystick. That means you’ll be able to play Metal Slug and King of Fighters and not feeling of the attendant guilt for do
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