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In 2001, author Marc Prensky coined the term “digital native” for those born without knowledge of an analog world. For kids coming up today in the ubiquity of touch screens, they may not know a world where those surfaces weren’t open for manipulation and control. The idea of a “touch generation” is
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This is awesome. A Manchester, NH company is giving employees paid time off for big releases: Given this reality, Dyn has recently refreshed their employee benefits to take account for major game release days, giving an optional PTO day per year for big releases. The New England-based provider of en
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“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” — John Cleese
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As part of our ongoing series on the life of a videogame intern, Joseph Bernstein deals with the discomfort of playing excessively violent videogames: My adult enjoyment of violent videogames was always girded by two assumptions. The first is that eliminating or surpassing an obstacle is the basic u
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This is amazing. A videogame player in Texas has been competing in recent Super Street Fighter IV tourney — without the use of his hands: At first, she was baffled by the condition, but after she sought the help of several geneticists and specialists, Begum was diagnosed with arthrogryposis. “It was
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The military, understandably, is obsessed with adding the newest technology, but to date, smartphones haven’t been added to the mix. That’s been a big challenge and one the military is trying to tackle, according to Danger Room “Every kid’s going down to whatever local store they want and they’re b
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PAUSE: Traffic Light.
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Old school commercial for Nintendo’s Game & Watch is adorable, quaint
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This weekend, Beantown plays host to the Boston Cyberarts Festival which will turn the entire town into an augmented reality paradise. We just hope they stay away from Lansdowne Street. That gets real ugly at night. Daily Serving has the rundown: The disembodied art on display include (in collabora
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The RoboCup Japan Open is a tournament for robots where they play soccer and apparently show each other photos of their WAGs. Above is Hajime Robot 31, a humanoid creation from the Chiba Institute of Technology 1m tall weighs just 5kg and comes with 17 joints. I look forward to the day when American
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The Tempest Free-running Academy is a new LA gym designed to teach the mystical art of parkour. Naturally, they channeled one of the great jumpers of all-time: Mario. (Side note: the Ellie Goulding remix is here if you’re curious.) [via]