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Hideo Kojima’s parents used to make him watch sex scenes in European movies when he was a boy.
What’s to become of sensitive children who watch naked people having sex on TV? In Hideo Kojima’s case, fame, fortune, and a life-long obsession with moviemaking. In an interview in The Guardian the Metal Gear Solid creator recalls his parents nightly tradition of gathering around the family televis
New study finds teen novels are twice as vulgar as videogames. Developers have a lot of ground to make up.
A new study by Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne shows that teen novels are dramatically more vulgar than videogames intended for teens. Coyne surveyed 40 of the best-selling teen novels and found 88% of them (35 books) included profanity. Only 34% of teen videogames included objectiona
Resident Evil celebrates 15th anniversary by terrorizing fans in an abandoned hospital.
As part of the 15 year anniversary of the Resident Evil series, Capcom is partnering with Zepp Live Entertainment to put on a live haunted house in an abandoned Japanese hospital. Zepp specializes in creating real experiences were audience members must find their way out of a real world location wh
Pokemon gets a special exhibit at Suginami Animation Museum.
While American museums are slowly supporting popular animation, Japan’s Suginami Animation Museum has been eagerly embracing it since 2005. Their past exhibitions have examined Astro Boy and “eastern anime.” The museum values anime even if it’s made for little kids. This spring the Suginami Animat
The medium is the message: Stanford researchers use binary coding techniques to store data in DNA.
Ray Kurzweil is fond of comparing DNA to human source code. A group of researchers at Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering have devised a way to use that source code to store write and erase new data into DNA based on some of the simplest principles of binary coding. The process uses an enzyme ad
Thanks to the Kinect and Cornell you’ll soon have robots cleaning your house.
video We’ve reached the moment in history where robots are learning how to organize and place objects autonomously. From the opinion section on The Week, Cornell roboticists have built and successfully tested a canny new housecleaning bot. Of course, building a machine that “knows” where to put you
Cheat Sheet 5/24: 38 Studios rumored to lay off entire staff, David Cameron loves Fruit Ninja, another Diablo III auction house delay.
Today’s forecast calls for torrential downpours of videgame news. -38 Studios and Big Huge Games rumored to have laid off entire staff. –J.S. Joust “clone” removed from App Store. -Blizzard delays real money auction house for Diablo III another week. -UK Prime Minister David Cameron spends “a crazy,
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