Dani Lischinski of Hebrew University and Johannes Kopf of Microsoft have developed an algorithm which automatically re-renders 8- and 16-bit console games with HD graphics. Now, don’t get mad: this could actually make it really easy to enjoy old games while they look good on your new T.V.: While th
As part of the Obama initiatives to extend space exploration into deep space, NASA will be sending an unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid near Earth, finally bringing Asteroids into the real world. But this mission will be more about research and less about blasting space rocks: Actually, the OSIRIS
With plenty of time to campaign before the November election, New Zealand opposition parties have taken to using computer games as a way to communicate their platforms to young voters. The Green Party reappropriated Tetris to warn against lignite coal mining, while the Labour Party took a decidely m
Everyone wishes their parents were this cool. The above screenshot is taken from the start menu of what has got to be the most adorable game of the year so far. Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure is the result of 5-year-old Cassie’s imagination, and her father Ryan Henson Creighton’s technical assis
?Here’s your daily dose of mainstream videogame news. – First details on FIFA 12 available here. – Party this fall on Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville for Facebook and iOS. – Sony might be teasing us with a new game. – Microsoft takes an alternative approach to dealing with a hacker. ?That was easy e
Pitchfork came up with the 5-10-15-20 idea over two years ago to ask musicians about the music in their lives at five-year intervals. Our recent partnership with Pitchfork lets us do many things, one of which is apply that idea to videogame people. Today, creator of the Scott Pilgrim series, Bryan L
The Jixi labor camp in the Heilongjiang province in China uses the repetition of Communist propaganda, trench digging and other forms of manual labor to “rehabilitate” it’s prisoners. But Liu Dali, a 54-year-old man imprisoned for “illegally petitioning” the central government for corruption, spent
Here’s your daily dose of (mostly) mainstream videogame news. Minus the hassle. -Sony is being coy about its next platform. –Terraria hits 200 000 sales in 9 days thanks to word-of-mouth. –Minecraft for Android will come to Xperia Play first. -New download service “Little Indie” caters to indie game