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Build with Chrome is a cross between FarmVille and Minecraft.
Video Google Australia teamed up with LEGO to build a giant board for you to populate with whales, houses, and, undoubtably, inappropriate body parts. (Thankfully, there’s an approvals process, you griefers you.) Check you the site here.
Girls and boys favor videogames over other toys.
What was your favorite toy when you were a child? A survey of children fifteen years ago probably wouldn’t have included computers as toys. But these days, “toy” and “electronic gadget” are sharing a lot of territory. Both girls and boys prefer virtual toys and games to physical ones. Adrian Voce O
Make a music videogame out of (most) any song in your digital library.
Tiny rhythm games are like glorified toe-tapping or dancing with your finger. When there’s no room to dance, dance, and revolt, try and flush the fever into your phone with Beatstream. The masterminds at Smule, who created Magic Fiddle, Magic Guitar, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina 2, and many other standout
Trace the ancestry of the multimedia console back to Thomas Wilfred.
Innovation often reveals itself as one long, circuitous process. Or at least it seems like it when we rediscover people like Thomas Wilfred and his early-20th-century multimedia inventions. As part of their “Original Creators” series, the Creators Project recently remembered Thomas Wilfred. Coming
What new technological innovation tells us about our disposition.
Further complicating the old notion that ‘everything has been invented’, bestselling author Nicholas Carr proclaims, “If the current state of progress disappoints you, don’t blame innovation. Blame yourself.” Outlining a pattern of technology that parallels Maslow’s hierarchy, Carr argues that peopl
The fight over Tetris’ copyright and its implications for gaming’s future.
Tetris may not seem relevant to the cutting edge these days, but the household name recently made news when it brought Xio Interactive to court for copyright infringement—and won. Interestingly, as Ars Technica reports, the judge for the case determined copyright infringement not from the game and i
Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut to be released tomorrow.
The Mass Effect series may finally reach its conclusion. Again. In the few months since its release, the controversy surrounding Mass Effect 3‘s ending has been discussed extensively. Tomorrow, BioWare will release a new ending to the game that will be “available to download at no additional charge
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