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video They say you can’t cheat a cheater, which is particularly true if the cheater is a robot designed for cheating. Engineers at the Ishikawa Oku Lab, University of Tokyo have created a robot with a high-speed vision system built solely for the purpose of beating human players in rock, paper, scis
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Using a traditional woodblock printing process, Jed Henry‘s Ukiyo-e Heroes come to life as tradition Japanese illustrations. Check ’em out, and watch a video about Jed’s woodblock process here. [via BuzzFeed]
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video If you were anything like me as a child, your parents dragged you to LARP in the forest on weekends when you would’ve much rather been at home playing videogames. “It’s just like a videogame, except in real life!” They would try to explain, hoping you’d find the RPG-elements shared between vid
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With the upcoming sequel to Octodad set for a 2013 release date, Patricia Hernandez has posted a conversation with Phil Tibitoski in which she unearths some of the creator’s motivations and musings. All cephalopodic jokes aside, Octodad may be the greatest example of how the simple constraints of a
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Surely not to debase and trivialize a sacred law by making it an adolescent fantasy, a state-sponsored Iranian studio is developing a game whose objective is to kill a Salman Rushdie (author of The Satanic Verses, Midnight’s Children) avatar, because it’s definitely going to educate the youth and no
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If any videogame developers still doubted the Anonymous adage “the internet is here,” the explosive protest against Mass Effect 3’s ending that brought the legendary BioWare studio to its knees has left them forever humbled. Since its release this past March, the final act of the acclaimed Mass Effe
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Children’s play these days doesn’t require much packaging. Downloadable games lack the physicality of a box of Legos—that satisfaction of peeling off the disposable outer shell for the first time to reveal whatever is hidden within. You might say digital games have no packaging or, on the other hand
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A new data visualization project from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design allows us to see how much of our language is silent. Silenc cleverly recombines written and spoken language into a unique, synesthetic reading experience. By means of a red light filter, the viewer can interactively
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More and more are coming to believe that education and imagination are not gulags of labor, but places to play. Announced yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, GLASS Lab—a project by Institute of Play in partnership with EA and the Entertainment Software Association and supported by the John D. and
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Astronomers all over are searching for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). While they’re primarily concerned with detecting a signal and not decoding it, the detecting devices are attached to computers, making a tiny bit of risk. Andrew Siemon of SETI-Berkeley explains the small but existent dange
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An Australian videogame store includes staff-written reviews, adding personalized flavor and humor to the store. [via Shtuff Happens]
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While playing cards sybolize games of chance, it turns out our preferences for said cards are anything but chance. New research shows we definitely have biases when it comes to remembering and choosing cards: Simply asked to name a card, there was a strong bias for choosing the Ace of Spades, follow