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Alan Turing: check and mate. This past weekend at the 2014 Turing Test in London, a group of judges were fooled into thinking that a chatbot was in fact a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Goostman, proof computers are getting smarter or humans are getting dumber. Experts are hailing the genuinely believ
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The Queen has proposed a stern lifetime sentence for cyber-attackers within the British state, so don’t get any bright ideas from game sessions of Watch Dogs, Englanders. In a recent speech, the sovereign revealed a crime bill that hackers whose digital troublemaking results in “loss of life, seriou
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An island unto himself.
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What’s the deal with Goat Simulator? (Hmm… it seems my awesome Seinfeld impression doesn’t come across very well in typing.) But think about it. This silly game about goats which has no point, aside from being funny, does some seriously inspired stuff with videogame slapstick. Namely, there are no
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Wrangling and cajoling a group of friends to your small apartment’s kitchen will no longer be an impediment to playing Twilight Struggle, because the digital edition of that great Cold War card and dice game is already fully funded on Kickstarter. I know it’s a can of worms to say anything is the “b
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Perhaps a puppet show? A diorama?
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Seriously. Look at this game. It is just gorgeous. Well, except for that scene with the guy (Ethan, maybe?) getting clubbed over the head with a lead pipe. But aside from that, incredibly pretty. We’ve written before about how the devs of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter are pioneering a graphical tec
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This camouflage drone made of melted Milka chocolate bars sure looks delicious. I’ve been craving chocolate all day. Death and invasion of my privacy from above—eh, not so much. The most impressive part of this hovering aircraft is that it actually flies without melting into sweet liquid candy. “Ch
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The introductory chapter to Republique—which plays like a sort of culturally eloquent, mobile take on Metal Gear—is on sale June 5 through 12. And by on sale we mean: free. You can read our review of it here, and episode 2 here. Clearly, there are plenty of reasons for the love. It features a belie
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‘Twas not to be.
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Shout out to all the short games out there.
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We have one word about the famous Matrix scene being refitted for Oculus Rift: Whoa! OK, we have a few more, but that’s a good starting point. There’s just something awe-inspiring about being in the same hollow, boundless white room where a debonair Laurence Fishburne introduces slack-jawed Keanu t