At the UIST 2012 symposium in Santa Barbara, CA, Microsoft Research unveiled something they call OmniTouch, a device that uses a laser-based pico projector and a camera with depth-sensing capabilities to turn any surface-even the human body-into a touch screen. Hrvoje Benko of the Natural Interacti
Lego just released a game entitled Life of George that offers players an opportunity to play with George, a Lego man who moonlights as a photographer. George’s job is to show you a photo of something he’s taken, and it’s your job to assemble a Lego model of whatever he shows you. Once the model is c
Ok, so it’s not really GLaDOS (just a vocal effect), but this track from English dub-crooner James Blake’s new “Enough Thunder” EP sounds exactly like that maniacal robot from the Portal franchise. Given our penchant to read games into everything, this totally caught our eye, er, ear. (As my father
. Download audio file If you recall our SL Jones interview from the other day, we mentioned to him the concept of Kario Mart, which is a game that involves Mario Kart, beer, and, well, we’ll let you fill in the rest. He got such a kick out of the idea that he made a song about it for us. Without fur
In a funny, ironic twist of fate, the game Phone Story is no longer available for iPhones as of last month. The game, which seeks to educate its players on all of the icky, human rights violation-y stuff that goes into the creation of a shiny iPhone, was banned for going against the following criter
It’s said that in order to make it easy for players to shoot their enemies, you can make them robots, monsters, or Nazis. For young Israelis, the latter was preferable. Tablet’s senior writer provides a fascinating first-hand account of what it was like to play the game with revenge in mind: Killin
From a Paris Review interview with poet Cathy Park Hong: The frontier is always the border of something, virgin territory where we can build new worlds, remake ourselves; always there’s this obsession with remaking ourselves. So to dream of the frontier is also to desire immortality. But there is no
Hey guys! Welcome to the Rap Map, where we talk to rappers from every region of the world (North America is the whole world, right? Cool.) about their favorite videogames. We’re starting with the South, and first up, we’ve got SL Jones. SL Jones is a rapper from Little Rock, AK, who in the past has