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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
Rogue AI loses Knight Capital $440 million, scares the hell out of humans.
We are not, as Richard Brautigan once (ironically) hoped, all watched over by machines of loving grace. Last Thursday, newly installed trading software at Knight Capital, which is designed to anticipate swift changes in the market, ungracefully glitched out, taking an estimated $440 million with it,
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