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We love videogames and the fun they bring to us, but reports surrounding the conditions in which our favorite consoles are manufactured are no laughing matter. Kotaku have reported issues of labor mistreatment in Chinese factories, which are now responsible for manufacturing consoles from Sony, Mic
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What is it, exactly, that stops us from being completely seduced by the increasingly impressive modeling of virtual faces in videogames? A new study from MIT says that wariness toward facial recognition might be caused by competing impulses on different sides of the brain: The neuroscientists found
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Ludum Dare, the irregular contest that dares hobbyist game developers to make the best game possible in one weekend, has posted its results. This time, the theme was “Alone,” spurring more entries than ever. While Minicraft, Notch’s spoof of his own game Minecraft, didn’t make it, a lot of other gam
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Last year’s Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery EP allowed players to send realtime tweets about their character. A new and suspiciously fatalistic Facebook app titled “If I Die” suggests Facebook app developers are thinking alike: If I Die lets “you” post a final message to your wall and loved one wh
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DJ Shadow, the West Coast hip-hop artist best known for his breakthrough album Endtroducing….., but who has fallen off the map ever since, recently spoke with Edge about his favorite videogames. Smash TV was one of the last games I obsessively pumped money into. It was funny because I grew up with a
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In its (allegedly) last Consumer Electronics Show presentation ever this week, Microsoft unveiled this gem produced in partnership with the Sesame Workshop, a proposed “two-way television” to create interactive episodes of Sesame Street: A demonstration involved a girl throwing pretend coconuts at a
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An Iranian-American man has been handed a death sentence in Iran. His crime: developing videogames. Amir Mizra Hekmati made a series of web games in which players killed extremist militants, such as Osama bin Laden. The studio even released a KumaWar episode titled “Assault on Iran,” speculating on
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If the disturbing Black Friday violence that takes place in the United States has taught me anything, it’s that people really love their TVs. Luckily for all Samsung fans (violent or otherwise), the tech giant has come up with a new way to get closer to your TV than you ever could before: A built-in
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These wonderful photographs of a Russian missile plant were taken by photographer who snuck in. There are around 50 of these on her site. [Lana Sator] -Jason Johnson
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Want to prove to friends and family that your obsession with Apple has become unhealthy. This incredibly lifelike 12-inch figure of founder Steve Jobs will do the trick. The figure comes dressed in Jobs’ trademark black turtleneck, relax-fit jeans, and New Balance sneakers—all of which can be remove
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The Independent Games Festival has announced the finalists for its main competition, which will be held on March 7-9th in San Francisco as part of the annual Independent Games Summit. What’s super cool is they’ve signed a multi-year agreement with Xbox Live Arcade to create a new competition, the wi
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According to The Economist, Several lines of inquiry (see article) are converging on the idea that the neurological activity of the brain can be decoded directly, and people’s thoughts revealed without being spoken. So telepathy? Mind-reading? We could be mentally messaging our friends and playing g