video The Pikmin games were always proof that, when presented with the right amount of colorful cheer, the most horrifically sad acts can be digested as easily as candy. The E3 demo of Pikmin 3 carries on in this tradition with a game about a helpless protagonist who’s only path off an alien planet
Despite public trepidation, nanotechnology continues as a new standard of Western medicine. Molecular biologists at Harvard are in the process of nano-sculpting DNA tiles–strands of synthetic DNA programmed to build off each other to form shapes to act as prescription drug couriers. Little children
I connected with A MAZE festival organizer Thorsten S. Wiedemann about a year ago in Berlin when he told me about his forthcoming plans to bring an indie game festival to South Africa’s largest city. It’s finally happening.: From August 28th to September 2nd 2012 the A MAZE. Interact Festival will b
Chelsea’s Eyebeam gallery has been home to some of our favorite digital projects and some of our favorite game designers. Matt Parker, who organized our SF party earlier this year was a fellow as was Kaho Abe, who we featured in Issue 2. Now they’re looking for help to build out their space: The rec
video When The Last of Us was announced, creative director and writer Neil Druckmann described the game as “a love story about a father-daughter-like relationship.” This particular love story takes place in the apocalyptic aftermath of a zombie outbreak that has turned the human survivors into merci
video It’s sometimes argued that the higher the difficulty the purer the experience of a game. Normal difficulty settings are like a guided tour of a game’s locations and set pieces, requiring only a transient understanding of a its central mechanics. In a presentation at E3, Epic and developer Peop
video In the 1980s videogame advocates answered criticisms with claims of improved hand-eye coordination. No one was actually playing games to become more coordinated, but the possibility of some marginal benefit was a convenient tool to defuse skeptics. When Nintendo released the first Wii Fit in 2
Another day passed without contact from alien life. However, we did receive these signs of life from the videogame realm. –Samsung partners with Gaikai for gaming in the cloud. –DOOM creator John Carmack discusses the dream of virtual reality. -Unreal Engine 4 broken down. –God of War creator David