Relations between Taiwan and China have been rocky, to say the least. So what do you do when you have tenuous relationship with your neighbor? Make with a real-world simulation of a potential war with them. From the Washington Post: Taiwan’s National Security Council said late Monday that Presiden
The first Game Hack Day sponsored by NYHacker took place this past weekend at General Assembly. Kudos to John Britton for putting it all together and gathering the sponsors (Riot Games) along with reserving the space. Around 20 teams hacked for just over 24 hours and resulting in new friendships, ne
Over at Rhizome, Joanne McNeil points to an interesting post on nature of Google Street View with some fun insights on screens. (We’re really into screens for obvious reasons.): Lee Friedlander took a series of photographs in the 1960’s that included screens (that were in a 1995 exhibit and subsequ
Enjoy some easy, instant mainstream videogame news! –Deadly Premonition creator is one publisher short of a new game. –Become Nancy Botwin in this new Facebook game based on Showtime’s Weeds. -Capcom plans to make replay ability a thing of the past. -Digital gamers are closing the playtime gap wi
Of the many wonderful uses of games, teaching people how to make pasta was not on our radar as a high priority need. Nonetheless, for researchers at the University of Bologna, the highly dextrous task rolling tortellini was a must. “We chose tortellini for two reasons,” explained professor of compu
Ryan Challinor, an engineer at Harmonix who worked on Dance Central, sent us a note about his new project Synapse that he was working on for Burning Man. He wrote: It’s easy to install on anyone’s computer, it’s open source, and it gives you a user-friendly interface to control music and visuals in