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On April 20th, 2021 with 71 comments
Audi has revealed its all-electric A6 E-tron concept, a luxury sedan that will come packed with tech including the ability to project video games on to a wall....
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On March 8th, 2019 with 38 comments
Version 6.50 of the PlayStation 4's firmware now allows you to remotely play your PS4 games from an iPhone or iPad. "To access it, you'll need to download the...
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Cellphones,
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On August 16th, 2018 with 38 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hackers have uncovered and tested a screen-splitting "VR Mode" that has been buried in the Switch's...
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On June 29th, 2015 with 111 comments
Since starting his own company in 1980, Steve Jackson, founder and editor-in-chief of Steve Jackson Games, has created a number of hits, starting with Car Wars...
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On March 18th, 2015 with 57 comments
Lumo is an interactive projector. You can use it to bore people with PowerPoint slides or you can use it as a game machine. It has a built-in (low res) camera...
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On January 13th, 2014 with 46 comments
In a town called Portsmouth, Ohio, a company called Yost Engineering (YEI) Technology has quietly been making motion sensing devices for military, aerospace,...
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On January 6th, 2014 with 64 comments
Emmett has a good rep as a video game music composer, and he's worked on a number of Star Trek-related projects, including the recently-released audio book,...
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On December 19th, 2013 with 87 comments
The Virtuix Omni "is an omnidirectional treadmill video game peripheral for virtual reality games currently in development by Virtuix," says Wikipedia. With...
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On December 12th, 2013 with 131 comments
Collectible card games have been a prominent part of nerd gaming culture since the early '90s. Magic: the Gathering forged a compelling genre and dozens of...
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On December 9th, 2013 with 44 comments
A while ago you had the chance to ask gamer and console modder extraordinaire Ben Heck about his favorite mods, hacks, and what he sees coming in the future....
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On November 20th, 2013 with 177 comments
What ever happened to point-and-click action role-playing games? Blizzard set the standard for this genre around the turn of the century, and while a few...
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On November 4th, 2013 with 14 comments
In this video, we continue our conversation with author David Craddock about his investigation into the early days of game studio Blizzard for his new book,...
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On September 16th, 2013 with 122 comments
With three letters, you can get most gamers' attention: MMO. With three more, you can just as quickly inspire skepticism and doubt: FPS. Ever since the MMORPG...
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First Person Shooters (Games),
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On May 30th, 2013 with 84 comments
Nintendo says, "With Wii Street U powered by Google, you can step into Google Street View with an immersive experience that feels like you’re actually...
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On May 20th, 2013 with 41 comments
Imagine game designer Steve Jackson and a bunch of friends building Lego trains and tracks and scenery, including buildings and other props. Sounds like fun,...
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On March 27th, 2013 with 108 comments
What the Leap Motion product (they only have one right now) does is allow you to control your computer with gestures. We're not talking about just jumping...
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On February 19th, 2013 with 223 comments
William Volk may not be the world's oldest game designer, but he's up there. He started out as a play tester for Avalon Hill in 1979, and since then has worked...
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On February 11th, 2013 with 32 comments
Jon Brodkin writes "I’ve been a longtime fan of Brain Age. Mixed in among the standard-issue kill-everything-you-see/race/sports types of games that...
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On December 27th, 2012 with 217 comments
antdude writes "The National Purchase Diary (NPD) Group Blog reports that 'Internet Connected TVs Are Used To Watch TV, And That's About All — The...
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On December 19th, 2012 with 79 comments
Jon Brodkin writes
"Pity poor Mega Man. The little blue robot boy with a gun for a hand was one of the most popular heroes in the Nintendo Entertainment...
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On December 18th, 2012 with 157 comments
In this video (with transcript), we review Planetside 2, a new MMOFPS game from Sony Online Entertainment. The game is a true first-person shooter, using its...
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First Person Shooters (Games),
Sony,
Games,
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On December 10th, 2012 with 123 comments
Professor Lampe is using gamification in his 200-student lecture classes to make them more interesting. He says big-class lectures can often be as boring for...
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On December 3rd, 2012 with 109 comments
Jon Brodkin writes "The Wii U has been out for two weeks, with most of the attention naturally focusing on the console’s tablet-y GamePad and blockbuster...
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On November 13th, 2012 with 204 comments
In this video (with transcript) we review the newest expansion to World of Warcraft, titled Mists of Pandaria. This is the fourth expansion to Blizzard's...
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On September 27th, 2012 with 221 comments
CowboyNeal writes: "Last week was a big week for gamers, with the release of both
Borderlands 2 as well as Torchlight 2. I already shared my thoughts
on the...
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Role Playing (Games),
Games,
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On September 19th, 2012 with 117 comments
CowboyNeal writes: "This week sees the release of Borderlands 2, the sequel to
Gearbox Software's 2009 role-playing shooter Borderlands. Pandora is
ready to...
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On August 20th, 2012 with 146 comments
Jon Brodkin writes "There’s a new Super Mario Bros. game out for the 3DS handheld console. It’s called New Super Mario Bros. 2 and features Mario,...
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On August 2nd, 2012 with 62 comments
This week the sequel to last year's indie hit Orcs Must Die! was
released, and I take a look at it, to see what's new, what's still the same,
and if it's worth...
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On July 27th, 2012 with 43 comments
On July 18 we ran Part One of a video conversation (really audio with slides) between Slashdot editor Rob "samzenpus" Rozeboom and Mike Mearls, Senior Manager...
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On July 18th, 2012 with 33 comments
CowboyNeal writes: "Last week I wrote about the fluid
nature of modern game development and how that often impacts both
game reviews and purchases....
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Open Source,
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