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Finally, the dream of racing your own 34-inch Mario Kart is a go.
Video MIT grad student Charles Guan is man after my own heart. He has converted the go-kart designs from Mario Kart into a real-life mini-vehicle that can hit 26 MPH. It’s called “Chibikart,” it’s 34 inches long and 18 inches wide, and it is adorable. [via The Daily What Geek]
If physical books flirt with extinction, what should we make of board games?
Video We love physical objects (so much so, that we have a print magazine of our own), but with the competing forces of the Internet and tablet devices, it’s no surprise that that book as chief means of information has all but disappeared. There are those (like Jonathan Franzen) who wish to look bac
How Kickstarter hopeful Republique got funded at the last second and why it very nearly wasn’t.
A few days ago, stealth iOS title République successfully completed its Kickstarter. This was really impressive news given that as the campaign drew to a close, the game would be tasked with raising over 200,000 dollars in four days. Not an easy feat, yet they still managed to accomplsh it. Wired re
Play of the Day: 100 Floors will make you tap, spin, shake, anything to open those damn elevator doors.
100 Floors is a simple iOS game in the spirit of room escape games. Each screen of the game gives you an elevator door and some situation. Your job is to figure out how to open the elevator’s doors and get to the next level. The levels make good use practically all of the device’s various input meth
Looking to start the next Facebook? Try playing Civilization.
With Facebook’s IPO due in the next week or so, founding geek and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is about to make so much money he’ll be able to swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck. We’re talking enough money for the pit full of gold coins (naturally), but also enough to fund the ground-breaking physics rese
One-handed Xbox 360 controller mod has the upper hand.
If you’re not familiar with Able Gamers, you should be. A non-profit and affiliated gaming site for those of us who love games but are facing different challeneges via disability, AG has been a loud advocate for ensuring that all games are accessible for all of us. One of the big challenges, of cour
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