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Here’s a bite-size list of some mainstream videogame news from the past day or so. -Pick yourself up a Gears of War 3 replica retro lancer this September. -“Master” Toshiyuki Takahashi parts with Hudson Soft. -Activision release footage from Modern Warfare 3. –L.A. Noire is the fastest selling new v
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Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has kept on the cutting edge. This weekend he’ll be speaking at the 2011 Maker Faire, a wild showcase of avant-garde contraptions by inventors and designers. And he wants Forbes writer Brian Caulfield, and the rest of us, to put down the controller and find unusual kinds
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A very noble new game, developed by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine and spearheaded by Schell Games, aims to educate so-termed “at-risk” youth about the dangers of HIV and methods of prevention: Funded from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Developme
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NY Times columnist Virginia Heffernan’s experience with the History Channel’s iPad app, Civil War Today, made her wonder at the morbidity of virtual re-enactment, and how so many keep their distance from painful history: Any directive to relive painful history – and “preserve” it, for that matter –
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The developers at Team Bondi captured the look and feel of 1947 L.A. in their highly anticipated game L.A. Noire, but not without help. Archivists from the UCLA Department of Geography to the Huntington Library shone a light on old maps, aerial photographs and the city’s seedy underbelly to provide
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This Fabian Gonzalez creation dares you to see if you can name them all. –Lana Polansky [via]
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The Neuroshima Hex series has a long history. And according to Tim Maly, the wrinkles of old age are beginning to show. He explains why Neuroshima Hex Puzzle is a game that has too much baggage: There is a higher enforced-text-per-minute density here than in Myst, which, you may recall, is a puzzle
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Keeping up with mainstream video game news is tough. We’re here to help. -Sony develops refined AR technology “SmartAR.” -Harmonix to unveil a new title at E3. -Square Enix presents 20 minutes of Final Fantasy Type-0. -Basketball player Blake Griffin shows off his skill in an ad for id Software’s R
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Remember the Atari Mindlink? You probably don’t. It was an unreleased 1984 controller which promised hands-free, brain-powered gameplay. Now welcome to the future, where Toronto’s Interaxon has developed a series of crazily sophisticated brainwave-powered games which help people relax and focus thei
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Snappy Touch’s Casey’s Contraptions possesses the building blocks of imagination, as well as the building balloons and the building skateboards. Richard Clark takes a look at this iPad game’s giddy jumble of good old-fashioned creativity and refreshing youthfulness: But I never forgot about The Inc
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Just kidding. Ivan Stoiljkovic, seen here in a commanding pose with a Samsung Galaxy Tab stuck to his chest, allegedly has other curious powers: Ivan, 6, is purported to posess an extraordinary and seemingly magical talent: the ability to attract metallic objects — from spoons to heavy frying pans
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Stephen Astley, a very crafty assistant headteacher at a UK high school, has created an educational game based around doing homework and revision that kids actually seem to like. Technology professor and department head of another UK high school, Jo Bleasdale, is impressed: “I decided to use it with