MAKE Magazine caught up at CES with Sifteo co-founder David Merill and chatted with the man behind the wireless digital gaming blocks about taking a product developed in the DIY community to the mass market: We talk a lot about how the barriers to game development are lower than ever. It may also be
Last fall, I was lured to a rustic cottage in the picturesque Hudson River Valley for a “work retreat”. Little did I know, the plan my colleagues had in store for me had little do with work, and everything to do with repeatedly bludgeoning me at Super Stickman Golf until I felt a terrible mix of sha
The good news: scientists at Imperial College in London have created an AI that built an actual computer game. The game is called, innocuously enough, A Puzzling Present. Its author is named ANGELINA, or “A Novel Game-Evolving Labrat I’ve Named Angelina.” It works like this: …using a system of modul
We know, we know, we tell you about a lot of Kickstarter projects. They can be hard to keep track of, particularly lower profile campaigns. It can also be hard to discern how feasible a project’s funding goal is. Kicktraq changes that. This website presents, in easy-to-decipher graphs and statistics
Gameranx has published a helpful breakdown of the notable releases of 2013 by system, and the big takeaway is: Wii U owners, I hope you like watching TVii. There simply aren’t any major exclusive titles to get excited about, other than maybe Pikmin 3. Wii U, which distinctly lacks a killer bundled a
-Monopoly expert Philip Orbanes on Hasbro’s “Save Your Token” campaign. On February 5 the piece with the lowest numer of fan votes – be it car, iron, dog, wheelbarrow, shoe, top hat, thimble or battleship – will be permanently retired and replaced with a toy robot, a helicopter, a cat, a guitar or a
David Gaider, the lead writer of BioWare’s Dragon Age series, has taken to his Tumblr to bemoan the increasingly venomous conversation among the games’ super-fans on the Bioware Social Network. Gaider writes, The signal-to-noise ratio does seem to be worsening, and eventually you get the feeling lik
This announcement didn’t make it to CES, but it’s no less nifty. Brian Benchoff at Hackaday devised a clever scheme to reuse his old Game Boy for Android gaming. After gutting an old DMG-01, [Chad] set to work turning the D-pad and buttons in the Game Boy into something his Galaxy Nexus could unders