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EA’s recent suit against Zynga for copying The Sims Social in The Ville has the potential to be a precendent-setting case for defining copyright infringement in videogames, perhaps to the aid of indie developers. For Gamasutra, Leigh Alexander spoke with Rutgers law professor Greg Lastowka, who beli
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Open-source communities have been helping each other print parts for 3D printers with 3D printers. But what can you do with a 3D printer once you have it? One family found a way to print a kind of exoskeleton for their daughter. This super-sweet toddler, whose name is Emma, has a congenital disorde
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Fans at Mane6 are working on a fighting game called My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic. Using 2D Fighter Maker 2002, the game will feature 17 ponies, all with their own special moves. It’s reminiscient of the Sailor Moon fighting games, with plenty of cute punches and heart-filled special moves to kn
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Chris Whitman’s Run combines several experimental minigames to tell a story where you, the ludologist, help capture sunshine to enable villagers to survive three years without light. Selections where you read text as you platform across it recall Danielewski’s word design play in House of Leaves. Th
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French social critic Roland Barthes once wrote that children’s toys “prefigure the world of adult functions” and “prepare the child to accept them all.” In other words, toys are probably kids’ first encounters with social stereotypes and expectations; they instill through play both the good and bad
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Not every Gamestop trade-in remains in the store where you sold it. Many consoles end up in a Texas facility where they are cleaned and tested. Kotaku has an interesting set of photos that show much of the process, which should assuage any anxieties about buying germ-ridden controllers.
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The shovel, the pale, and the subsequent sandcastle seem to fade into antiquity in light of this world-building robot, running on nothing but the humble sun—and a laptop. The Stone Spray Project, in its early stages, mixes a liquid binding compound and sand to sculp arches or stools over scaffolding
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This short video pits Olympic 100-meter runners from 1896 to 2012 against each other in the same virtual race. It also reminds us of our ghost replays from Super Meat Boy, which is about as close to the Olympics as we’ll ever get.
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CNET contributor Joseph Hanlon noticed odd activity on his PayPal account recently. After doing some research, he realized that someone had used his identity to purchase gold from players of Blizzard’s most recent game. He or she spared no expense: billions in virtual currency were traded for thousa
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We are not, as Richard Brautigan once (ironically) hoped, all watched over by machines of loving grace. Last Thursday, newly installed trading software at Knight Capital, which is designed to anticipate swift changes in the market, ungracefully glitched out, taking an estimated $440 million with it,
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Further proof of the quantified nostalgia we extract from the hardware that projects an original story: According to Examiner, an original prototype of The Legend of Zelda will find a new, undisclosed home after selling for a record-breaking $55,000 on eBay. The price is the highest-ever for a Ninte
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Gaijin Games has a sequel to Bit.Trip.Runner in the works and recently released this trailer. The trailer asks us to “Imagine a world where everything is 8-bit… where your greatest retro dreams come true. Well f*ck that place.” The Bit.Trip games are where some players’ retro dreams come true; Gaiji