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If he were young, Nolan Bushnell wouldn’t enter the videogame industry.
Nolan Bushnell, often called the father of videogames, doesn’t see a future there for him. In a recent interview with Eurogamer, following his key-note address at the Games for Change Festival in New York in June, Bushnell manages to steer the conversation away from videogames nearly to a point of d
In copyright lawsuit against Zynga, a win for EA could be a win for indie developers.
EA’s recent suit against Zynga for copying The Sims Social in The Ville has the potential to be a precendent-setting case for defining copyright infringement in videogames, perhaps to the aid of indie developers. For Gamasutra, Leigh Alexander spoke with Rutgers law professor Greg Lastowka, who beli
3D printed arms allow 2-year-old to play.
Open-source communities have been helping each other print parts for 3D printers with 3D printers. But what can you do with a 3D printer once you have it? One family found a way to print a kind of exoskeleton for their daughter. This super-sweet toddler, whose name is Emma, has a congenital disorde
My Little Pony fighting game in development.
Fans at Mane6 are working on a fighting game called My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic. Using 2D Fighter Maker 2002, the game will feature 17 ponies, all with their own special moves. It’s reminiscient of the Sailor Moon fighting games, with plenty of cute punches and heart-filled special moves to kn
Experimental game Run uses words as platforms
Chris Whitman’s Run combines several experimental minigames to tell a story where you, the ludologist, help capture sunshine to enable villagers to survive three years without light. Selections where you read text as you platform across it recall Danielewski’s word design play in House of Leaves. Th
How Gamestop cleans up old consoles.
Not every Gamestop trade-in remains in the store where you sold it. Many consoles end up in a Texas facility where they are cleaned and tested. Kotaku has an interesting set of photos that show much of the process, which should assuage any anxieties about buying germ-ridden controllers.
Literal world-building with sand-spraying robot for your real-life Minecraft ambitions.
The shovel, the pale, and the subsequent sandcastle seem to fade into antiquity in light of this world-building robot, running on nothing but the humble sun—and a laptop. The Stone Spray Project, in its early stages, mixes a liquid binding compound and sand to sculp arches or stools over scaffolding
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