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Chase the carrot with 27 more species of Snake.
Finally expanding the one game universe we believed was just too unbelievably cloistered, Snakes on a Cartesian Plane by netgrind has introduced speciation to the classic cellphone game. Chase to unlock the Mamba, Python, Boa, Solid Snakes, etc. Despite the memetic name, Cartesian investigation and
YouTube 3D demoes Mariano Rivera’s cutter pitch, turns inside baseball inside-out.
Implement this into next year’s baseball sim: The New York Times’ detailed 3D map of one of baseball’s most confouding pitches–Mariano Rivera’s cutter. Thankfully, Youtube offers the historical gamut of 3D technologies and styles, including the old fashion naked eye(s). So if you humble yourself in
Former NFL player struggled with Call of Duty addiction, played 18 hours a day.
Quinn Pitcock was an All-American defensive lineman at Ohio State and a third round draft pick by the Indianapolis Colts in 2007. Despite the early promise of his athletic career, he developed an addiction to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare‘s online multiplayer mode, which contributed to his decision t
Where do secrets come from? One Apple engineer describes having a hobbyhorse go top secret.
Videogames are beset with rumors and speculation about what secret mysteries developers are holding back. The process of keeping secrets, and determining what should and shouldn’t be a part of public record, is murky and haphazard. Writing in a Quora thread about how Apple keeps its secrets from sli
Japanese Ronald McDonald as final Earthbound boss: terrifying
This vision of Japanese Ronald McDonald as the final boss in Earthbound is even more surreal than the original game. The not-so-subtle commentary on fast food may make its way into your nightmares. video
Researchers use Kinect to keep track of missing car keys.
In another example of people finding interesting uses for Kinect outside of games computer scientists at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville have created a program that uses the camera to keep track of household objects. Shahriar Nirjon and colleague John Stankovic use Kinect cameras in ea
Silent protagonists have a personality, and it’s not yours
In early Zelda games, Link had little personality, but he did have a role to fulfill, whether it was as an adventuring son or a fairyless boy. His silence let players more readily identify with him… or so the Art of Gaming 101 puts it. Over at PopMatters, Kevin Dickinson argues that “silent” protag
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