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New game teaches scientific reasoning.
You’ve probably heard of the videogame that treats depression; now there’s a videogame that teaches scientific reasoning. It’s called Operation ARA and the initial research looks promising. Students learn the skills of scientific reasoning by engaging in interactive dialogs with avatars. They are tu
Hold your horses, Star Fox. Interstellar space travel may be at least 200 years away.
Travel to other distant planets is a central conceit for many videogames, from Star Fox to Halo to EVE Online. Being in an alien world gives developers an easy excuse for tweaking the laws of physics for the sake of fun and drama. But just how plausible is the idea of reaching another solar system?
9 director Shane Acker to use Source engine to make his next animated film.
For years players have created a roughshod kind of cinema using the games Halo and Splinter Cell, but rarely have professional filmmakers thought to use game design tools for their films. Shane Acker, who directed the Tim Burton-produced 9, aims to change that. He’ll partner with partner with Valve
Neuroscientist explains how survival horror games depend on spatial awareness.
The creation of fear in a videogame is an inexact science but there’s evidence to suggest a neurological mechanism can influence it in some important ways. Writing for Gamasutra, Maral Tajerian, a neuroscientist at Thwackel Consulting, explains the role mirror neurons play in connecting players to t
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
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