The year was 1975. MITS released the Altair 8800 home computer kit, bursting open the floodgates of the personal computer revolution. The same year, BYTE released its first issue, forever changing the landscape of tech journalism. Flash forward to 2011, and BYTE has found a new domain as an online j
Videogame parodist freddiew demonstrates what happens when you mess with the Prince. –Lana Polansky [via]
Refresh yourself with some more mainstream videogame news! -Capcom has confirmed Mega Man Legends 3 is no more. -Manchester City Football Club is kicking the ball around with EA Sports. -Cliff Bleszinski explains why Marcus Fenix has daddy issues, among other things. –Silent Hill composer Akira Ya
Photography, Mario and Mouse Trap come together in this wild Rube Goldberg Machine brought to us by 2D Photography Inc. –Lana Polansky [via]
No need to look twice; we assure you, this is real. And it’s a student project to boot. Did we already say that? No matter, because Arthur Nishimoto and the rest of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory team at the University of Illinois at Chicago have earned bragging rights for their TacTile tou
You may not realize this, but the absolute best venue for an extensive retro videogame tribute is the marquee of a Chicken Charlie’s at the fair. Starring a protagonist that looks weirdly like Star Fox’s Falco, this extensive montage features him shooting lasers, grabbing rings, and rescuing a Peach
Let’s speed through some more mainstream videogame news! 3, 2, 1, GO! -Forget simple PS3 3D gaming. Think more along the lines of virtual reality headsets. -Director Neil Burger is departing from David O. Russell’s Uncharted story departure. -Get some new details on Minecraft for Xbox 360. -But k
Psychology and videogames are tightly bound together on various levels —one of them being how scientific data gathered from videogame-related studies are manipulated and interpreted by the videogame industry to create and market psychologically appealing games. But Stephen Fairclough, blogger for th