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Author Margaret Atwood inadvertently reflects on touch-screen age.
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. —Margaret Atwood from The Blind Assassin. Since 2007, we’ve praised touch-screen technology as the key to our technological intuition. Well, Atwood’s line from the science-fiction roman á c
New trailer for the Unfinished Swan suggests that the controller is mightier than the pen.
video Much as a great novel unveils the world in streams of language, Giant Sparrow’s trailer for their upcoming title, The Unfinished Swan, promises the unfolding of a striking and mysterious world rendered in black and white. The game’s core mechanism is the use of black paint blobs that can be th
Warren Spector calls to end the violence. Does the videogame industry need a lesson beyond "edutainment?"
The videogame violence debate is old but not over, because it’s not just worried parents and politicians anymore. Recently, Warren Spector–revered designer of System Shock, Deus Ex, Epic Mickey, among others—told G.I.biz: We have to stop loving it. I just don’t believe in the effects argument at all
Kickstarter Zombie RPG emulates real shelter conditions
Let’s get realistic about post-apocalypse survival, Jericho and Battlestar Galactica style. We’re going to have to work with our neighbors and compete against other towns to survive by gathering food and maybe shooting zombies. Dead State is a Kickstarter game that considers all these aspects of sur
Gates Foundation think wristbands can measure student boredom in class.
At any institution of higher learning there will be a teacher whose lectures are boring. It’s not hard to tell when students are bored—they’re usually staring off into space, texting, or sleeping. But some teachers may have lost this ability, having become habituated to a lack of eye contact, and Bi
Stressed out about your birthday? It might kill you.
New research on death days shows that we’re 14 percent more likely to die on our birthdays. The researchers analysed 2.4 million deaths over a 40-year period. Results show there were 13.8 per cent more deaths on birthdays than might be expected compared with any other day of the year. The risk incr
Feminist Allies Speak Up About Speaking Out in Gaming Culture
In a new post on ThinkProgress.org, Alyssa Rosenberg compiles a concise and useful guide for those wishing to better serve as feminist allies in our gaming culture, as well as for those who may have little exposure to the issues at hand. In a brilliant move, Rosenberg reached out to pro-feminist mal
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