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PAUSE: This carpet is an undulating gravity field.
A writer over at Make spotted this Paris game-store floor on Facebook. True, it’s flat, but is that really the right word for it?
The Critical Path summons the best developers to talk about contemporary videogames.
“Most people have no idea of any game designer. They might be able to name one, maybe.” —Rod Humble, executive on The Sims, Second Life, Everquest, The Marriage, etc. Perhaps it’s time we stop and let the developers, artists, designers, and directors do the talking. In preparation of an upcoming doc
3D Dictionary teaches foreign language vocabulary
Learning a foreign language often includes making a lot of flash cards and just brutally memorizing their meanings. Well, now you can brutally memorize language vocabulary in a virtual world, with visual aids! Rob Howland’s 3D Dictionary, or SanJiten, is a game where your mission is to study virtual
Could this DIY Holodeck finally bring virtual reality to the masses?
A group of students from the Interactive Media program at the University of Southern California (where thatgamecompany’s Jenova Chen first developed Flow) are constructing a consumer version of the Holodeck—that is, the ultimate virtual reality system imagined in Star Trek and countless other scienc
Browser-based Game Boy Emulator
Whether you’re catching up on classics or re-living your childhood, this browser-based Game Boy Color emulator has all the most popular games available. The only downside is that you can’t save your progress or trade any pokemon.
Want to play as the Portal 2 robots on the streets of Grand Theft Auto IV? Yeah, you do.
YouTube modder Taltigolt has done the world a service by unleashing the comic stylings of P-body and Atlas on the world of Liberty City. This is the Grey Album of GTA mods.
Of course, Wikipedia is policed and half-written by unpaid bots.
Because no human would ever stoop so low as to write voiceless, rote information and expect to get paid for it, Wikipedia has largely relied on bots since its launch. The BBC reports that the bots have only increased in number and gotten better, becoming better aggregators than even your most humble
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