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The mouse in this AI war game is a demonic latex hand
freeculture.api built an idle game about autonomous weapons into a field-deployable hardshell case—and the critique is in the hardware.
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Virtual war zones and the failure of the military shooter
In October 2008, chaos gripped Mumbai for four days as a series of coordinated bombings and shootings killed 164 people and injured hundreds more. All 10 attackers were highly trained and linked to a command center in Pakistan via VOIP technology. The command center, using TV and social media feeds
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Long Gone Days imagines the world of war that’s coming for us
If a dystopian novel was written about the world that we live in right now, what would it look like? Chilean game maker Camila Gormaz wants to explore that in her upcoming game Long Gone Days. Unlike dead-Earth dystopias, where human society has overreached to such an extent that what remains of our
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A Star-Trek-style medical scanner could be here in the near future
A team of Stanford University electrical engineers have taken large steps towards creating a portable scanning device to detect hidden objects, with possible applications in the medical field as a detector of tumors in the brain. The team says the device could be ready for practical use within the n
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Getting Trapped in Metal Gear Solid V’s War Economy
Debt, industrialism, and the systems of modern war.
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Beg for your life in this experimental game about execution
We’re used to the first-person shooter being a series of gunshots executed through bared teeth. Bang, bang, momentarily duck behind cover to heal, bang bang. That’s the usual rhythm. They’re shooting galleries that throw bodies of various intelligence and armor at us to shoot. There’s little thought
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In the Game of Thrones season finale, you either win, or you respawn
Spoiler warning for everyone who is not caught up on season five /// A few episodes ago, in yet another classic Stannis-Davos argument, the false king declared his strategic position—while also basically summing up the entirety of the Game of Thrones fiction: “We march to victory, or we march to def
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How to train your firefighting robot
A droid on every naval ship.
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Drones can now perch on power lines to recharge, like the predatory robot birds they are
Bald eagle-shaped drone wins most ‘Merica idea ever.
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Dronie: the selfie with drone capabilities
And what we mean by that is run. Run for your life and do not look back.
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Obsidian is making a game where you play as a f*cking tank
You’ll shoot things, be a tank, etc.
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In Insurgency, some soldiers care about your voice
Talk quietly and carry a surprisingly realistic stick.