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Yesterday, Twitter took a bold step into the contentious world of software patents and intellectual property with its “Innovators Patent Agreement” (the other IPA), which the company’s VP of engineering described as an effort to keep “control in the hands of engineers and designers.” Rebecca Rosen e
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Given Zynga’s reputation in the game community, everybody was curious what would happen with the phenomenon of “Draw Something” following its sudden acquisition by the social gaming giant. Would it simply become “Draw Something with Friends?” or, I suppose, the simply title “Drawing with Friends?” I
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tk Pong may be one of the older videogames ever created, but the German agency BBDO certainly found a way to bring the game up to date. Tasked with showing that the Smart Fortwo electric drive was not only green but also fun, the company created this massive version of pong called “eBall” to showcas
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New York-based visual artist Sandy Smith constructed this sunset from donated computers. [Via Pulmonaire]
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Way back in issue 3, we explored what games infants play when they play games in our piece “The Young and the Scoreless.” Ryan Bradley examined the world of electronic games through the lens of three-year-old Jackson who’s been working out some life issues through iPad games: Play can be serious bus
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I’m trying to finish every episode of the wonderful science and culture podcast/radio program Radiolab this year and during my quest, I came across a quote from their 2008 episode titled “My So-Called Life” about the boundaires of science, morality, and bioengineering. They quote theoretical physici
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HBO’s new show “Girls” finally began airing this past Sunday amidst a massive amount of hype. Almost immediately, however, I was struck by the ferocity of attacks against the show. Most of the anger was not directed at the quality of the writing, acting, cinematography, or many of the other things I
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Last month the release of Mass Effect 3 had a nifty design tweak for fans of femshep: the cover art was made to be double-sided, so fans could switch between which version of Shepard they could prefer. It was a clever idea, but with the growing trends towards digital media, might these sort of desig
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Kill Screen recently spoke with videogame scholar Jesper Juul about the creative possibilities inherent in failure, something game designers and gamers alike may be loath to take seriously considering the emotional difficulty of processing failure itself. Herman Cain may seem like an odd candidate t
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tk The chances of a Ron Paul-led GOP ticket come this election season may be slim, but that doesn’t mean the cantankerous libertarian doesn’t have to stop fighting! Kickstarter has once again helped foment the burgeoning indie game seen (and, I suppose, the libertarian revolution) with this new Mari
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Daniel Rehn points out a project I missed called the Joint, a fictional collection of rooms in a fake apartment building where each site is a byte of pixellated goodness.
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Rhett Allain is an Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University and his is obsessed with Angry Birds Space. (So are we.) Part of series of posts exploring gravitational physics, he’s updated his previous model that suggested “the gravitational force was constant and there was