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Of the many wonderful uses of games, teaching people how to make pasta was not on our radar as a high priority need. Nonetheless, for researchers at the University of Bologna, the highly dextrous task rolling tortellini was a must. “We chose tortellini for two reasons,” explained professor of compu
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Ryan Challinor, an engineer at Harmonix who worked on Dance Central, sent us a note about his new project Synapse that he was working on for Burning Man. He wrote: It’s easy to install on anyone’s computer, it’s open source, and it gives you a user-friendly interface to control music and visuals in
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In case you were curious about how Watson, the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer, works up close, PC Mag took a deep dive. Keep your friends close and enemies closer, as they say: Is Watson considered artificial intelligence? Chu-Carroll said it depends on your definition of AI. If you define AI as mim
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Inspired by watching her little brother struggle to make a tic-tac-toe program, Hannah Wyman, 10, decided to start making games of her own using Microsoft’s Kodu programming language. “He was programming tic-tac-toe, and for something as simple as tic-tac-toe he was up there for hours just trying
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More Carrie Schneider work here.
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Area/Code co-founder Kevin Slavin posted observations on a video of Salesforce.com’s chief scientist on the problem of “gamification.” JP Rangaswami says: “I have neither the intent or wish to put the lipstick of gamification on the pig of work because the solution is not to make work a pig and the
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All from London-based designer Sebastian Bergne. [via]
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Here’s some bite-size mainstream videogame news to go with your morning coffee. -Get a look at new screens, details and the trailer for the upcoming XCOM reboot. –Team Fortress 2 is now free-to-play online, but you can still pay for virtual hats and stuff. –Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki trades in his r
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GA Tech professor Ian Bogost produced a series of “game poems” called A Slow Year as a set of 1K games for the Atari. But now he’s create a super luxe boxed version of the games for sale for $500 a piece. This strategy for boxed games is an interesting tack. Obviously, A Slow Year is not worth that
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Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome is releasing this eye-sore in collaboration with Taito. The company’s other watches go from more than $10k, but honestly, given the other crazy things that watches can do, we’d expect a playable build. Also, of note, is the company’s tag of “DNA of Famous Legends.” Per
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