On December 20th, 2020 with 25 comments
Aleksander Kubica is a postdoctoral fellow at Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and Institute for Quantum Computing. And he's also the...
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On November 28th, 2020 with 52 comments
A new bug in the PlayStation game Spider-Man: Miles Morales "turns Miles into various inanimate objects, including bricks, cardboard boxes, and even a trash...
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On September 1st, 2019 with 38 comments
"As we've discussed in the past, old people are some of the only video game streamers worth watching," writes the AV Club:
Filled with the wisdom that comes...
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On June 24th, 2019 with 160 comments
"An updated version of the classic board game Monopoly has done away with cash entirely and now uses a voice-activated AI banker instead," reports MarketWatch,...
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On April 6th, 2019 with 171 comments
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post:
Griffin Spikoski spends as much as 18 hours a day glued to his computer screen playing the wildly popular,...
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On June 26th, 2016 with 36 comments
An anonymous reader quotes this report from Motherboard:
The months leading up to this year's phenomenal reboot of Doom were stuffed with all kinds of fun...
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On June 19th, 2016 with 224 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger writes:
The Mattel people have released a new Barbie doll figurine touted as Game Developer Barbie. Dressed in jeans and...
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On May 29th, 2016 with 39 comments
sproketboy shares this article about a computer graphic designer who spent two years building a real-world version of the classic videogame Pong, played on a...
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On May 28th, 2016 with 43 comments
"The NSA has a well-earned reputation for being one of the tougher agencies to get records out of, making those rare FOIA wins all the sweeter..." according to...
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On May 16th, 2016 with 74 comments
MojoKid shares an interesting article from Tom's Hardware. While the new Battlefield 1 trailer may be the most-liked trailer in the history of YouTube, it's...
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On May 14th, 2016 with 46 comments
An anonymous reader writes:
After the new Doom was released yesterday, Vice discovered its SnapMap feature had already been used to recreate one of the levels...
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On May 8th, 2016 with 77 comments
An anonymous reader writes:
Standing in front on a Donkey Kong arcade cabinet, Wes Copeland set a new all-time high score on Thursday, playing Donkey Kong for...
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On July 24th, 2015 with 113 comments
HughPickens.com writes: On July 20, Nigel Richards won the French-language world Scrabble championship. Richards does not speak a word of French. "He doesn't...
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On December 12th, 2013 with 114 comments
dotarray writes "The world's first professional StarCraft II gamer has been granted a five-year pro athlete visa for the United States, making Kim 'viOLet'...
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On January 14th, 2013 with 162 comments
SchrodingerZ writes "The Viktor Rydberg school in Stockholm, Sweden, has announced that they have included Minecraft into the curriculum for their 13-year-old...
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On December 28th, 2012 with 370 comments
dotarray writes "One Colorado family received more than they'd bargained for this Christmas when they gave five-year-old Braydon Giles a pre-owned Nintendo 3DS...
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On October 8th, 2012 with 34 comments
An anonymous reader writes "cHTeMeLe is a board game about writing HTML5 code. In cHTeMeLe, players endorse their favorite web browser (Firefox, Safari,...
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On October 4th, 2012 with 381 comments
Dr. Gamera writes "Maine state senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz plays World of Warcraft. The opposing party in Maine has issued a press release attacking...
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On August 9th, 2012 with 59 comments
itwbennett writes "For those of you who can't count on a friend to tell you that a little more air should come between you and your Calvins, a Bloomingdales...
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On July 30th, 2012 with 114 comments
YokimaSun writes "Following on from Last months Mega auction of rare games that went for a staggering 1.2 Million dollars, comes another auction. This time its...
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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 March 23rd, 2012 with 95 comments
Steve Jackson Games occupies a special place in the history of gaming, not only for publishing some of the best-known tabletop games ever published, especially...
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On March 21st, 2012 with 40 comments
As a nexus of both computer programmers and other creative builder and maker types, SXSW (and Austin generally) is a great place to witness the overlap. John...
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On March 15th, 2012 with 55 comments
In this video, Brian Alspach tells you how Gamestar Mechanic helps turn kids from game players into game authors, which helps them learn a lot about...
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On March 14th, 2012 with 62 comments
Intrepid correspondent Timothy Lord writes, "I talked at SXSW with Kari Hale of League For Gamers, an organization started just a few months ago by Red 5...
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On February 28th, 2012 with 82 comments
People who hear about the Seattle Pinball Museum tend to say things like, "Seems like a must-visit destination in Seattle," and, "Why did no one tell me about...
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On January 26th, 2012 with 195 comments
MrSeb writes "An Italian researcher with a penchant for retro games — or perhaps just looking for an excuse to play games in the name of science! —...
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On December 8th, 2011 with 516 comments
Ron2K writes in with a story about a Red Cross committee that is debating if people playing war video games should be subject to the same humanitarian laws as...
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On November 30th, 2011 with 199 comments
MrSeb writes "Last weekend, over 12,000 LAN party goers turned up at DreamHack Winter 2011 in Jonkoping, Sweden with a PC under the arm, on their back, or...
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On November 16th, 2011 with 171 comments
Coolhand2120 writes "Gamers always felt they had more grey matter. The LA Times reports there is now proof: 'Fourteen-year-olds who were frequent video gamers...
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