While the 37th anniversary of Atari’s Breakout may not be a big deal to you, Google celebrated the occasion by making the game playable in its image search engine. By typing “Atari Breakout” into Google Image Search, you can play the game right in your browser. But instead of bricks, you’ll be breaking the images ...
For most major videogame developers, graphics are a key selling point for games, as companies try to one-up each other in terms of realism. But when your development platform is a spreadsheet application used primarily for business and educational purposes, realism takes a backseat to functionality. So when Canadian MBA Candidate Cary Walkin got the ...
If you feel like taking a break from your studies but don’t want to enter the endless void of social networks in search of time-wasting videos, a new browser-based game might be just what you need to get away from the books while keeping your mind sharp. The game, called Drop, is an extremely simple, ...
Steam, the most popular digital game distribution software, has officially made its way to Linux. All 57 games supporting the open source OS have been marked down 50 to 75 percent to celebrate the release. The move to Linux has been a long time coming for Steam. The software’s developer, Valve, first announced that it ...
This isn’t an article on poker tips: those articles involve a lot of math and basic strategies that I’m sure you’re familiar with. I wouldn’t know about that. But what I *do* know is that playing poker is awesome, and oddly tough to pull of in college. People talk about playing it, but do they? ...
With the release of Halo 4 last week and Call of Duty: Black Ops II today, dorms across the nation have been and will continue to be filled with the blaring sounds of war and raging male hormones. These releases will inevitably lead to a lot of groups getting together at a set location to ...
A team of researchers and developers at MIT’s Game Lab have turned relativity into an experience called “A Slower Speed of Light”. That concept alone may sound weird, but the physicists behind the game admit that people already believe that about relativity. “People think that relativity is extremely weird”, Gerd Kortemeyer, the game’s Product Owner, ...
Tetris has long been one of the most recognizable and popular games in existence. Versions of the game are available for practically every device capable of running it. I doubt the game’s creator, Alexey Pajitnov, could have ever imagined the success in 1984, when the game was first released in what was then Soviet Russia. ...
Rice University in Houston, Texas has announced a class in which playing Bethesda’s epic role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, will be one of the main focuses. Now, before you go running down to Houston in hopes of nabbing an easy credit, it’s only open to Rice students and will involve more than just ...
With the third season of AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead on the horizon tonight, I figured it was a good of a day as any to spend obsessing over all things zombies. Over the past decade, we’ve seen a real surge in zombie-related entertainment. From movies like 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, ...
Get ready for Halloween with this short but frightening indie game. It’s never what people see that truly terrifies them. Rather, it’s what they can’t see. No matter how horror is delivered to you, rather by a book, movie, television show or video game, letting an unknown terror fester in the audience’s imagination will leave ...
After a promotional Facebook campaign exceeds expectations, Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan announced that the company’s concept gaming tablet, Project Fiona, would be sent into production. According to Tan, the final design will be influenced by the gaming community’s feedback. It’ll be interesting to see how Razer handles this sort of crowdsourcing when producing a gadget ...
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