Upset by the electronic waste he saw in Phenom Penh, Dhairya Dand was inspired to launch a line of toys built from those abandoned laptops, cell phones, and other digital detritus that is generally considered useless. He calls the project “Thinker Toys“: To begin with I made four of these toys, each
Video Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow (aka Glasser) created this beast of a pump organ with the intent that no one should play music alone. We think it should feature prominent in a future Rock Band: The instrument cannot be played alone. Each player has a keyboard with alternating notes of a fou
In 1973, after a teacher at Drake High School in North Dakota introduced Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an over-zealous school board head demanded that all the copies be burned to protest the novel’s “obscene language.” Vonnegut intervened via a letter as pointed out by Jason Kottke. The entir
Personal injury and domestic violence aside, why can’t there be more Kinect games like this?
Ever since consoles beat out the personal computer as the dominant gaming platform by dint of sheer numbers, people have wondered what the fate of the PC will be. Now with the revolution in casual gaming and mobile platforms, are home consoles in the same commercial and cultural quandary? Wired take
Dismal news continues to pour in about the sad state of gaming retail stores across Europe and Australia. The Australian Financial Review reports today that many shops are now simply cleaning house: Game Group isn’t the only retailer to feel the slow death of brick and mortar video games in Austral
As part of this past weekend’s Molyjam, a 48-hour game creation competition based on the absurd tweets of Peter Molyneux parody account @Molydeux, Ben Pitt created a hilarious answer to the titular question. YOU ARE THE ROAD. [via Waxy]