Silk — Interactive generative art. Ten games that make you think about life. At the start of this year, we decided to come up with a list of Flash casual games with a philosophical bent. To be honest, we struggled. After days of research, we could only find a handful of games that had the thought-provoking depth we were looking for. Our list (which you can view by clicking here) was therefore only five games long. Fast forward to now, and it is remarkable how much difference a few months can make. Thanks to the work of pioneers like Daniel Benmergui, Gregory Weir and PixelAnte, there is now an abundance of clever arty Flash games to pique our intellects, and as a result creating this follow-up list of games that make you think has been a doddle.
In a wonderful twist, it seems it is the Flash gaming space - until now known more for the throwaway nature of its games rather than depth - that is leading the way in this exciting new area of gaming, as we hope the following games prove. 1Immortall The game starts with you crash landing on a planet. 2Loved 5Coma 6Loondon. Radio 4 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Cubescape. - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. Thinking Machine 4. Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought.
Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you. The artwork is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer's thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move. Those traces become a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine.
Play the game. Image Gallery View a range of still images taken from Thinking Machine 4. About the work More information about the project and answers to common questions. Credits Created by Martin Wattenberg, with Marek Walczak. About the artists Martin Wattenberg's work centers on the theme of making the invisible visible. 19 Amazing Video Game Cakes - Mental Floss. Serious gamers know just how time-consuming gaming is, often making it difficult to do anything besides working (only to buy more games) and playing the games themselves. Even so, gamers usually do still manage to have lives outside of the console; these cakes are some of the amazing creations born as a result. Consoles While most people dedicate their gaming obsessions to the specific games they play, others adore entire consoles. For those who worship at the altar of the original NES, Debbie Does Cakes has made a simply amazing cake complete with some of the system’s most classic characters. Of all the console cakes around, this PS3 cake by Pink Cake Box, accessorized with a Blackberry and spilled Pepsi can, might best capture the gaming lifestyle for those truly dedicated few.
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a new system out of its box for the first time and this Nintendo DSi cake by Pink Cake Box perfectly captures that blissful feeling. Lego Batman Skyrim Bioshock Q*Bert. - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. Issue 212 Cover Special. A History of Home Video Games from Atari to Xbox, Playstation and Wii - StumbleUpon. S Lair: Preserving the Classics - StumbleUpon. Mahjongg Dark Dimensions - CafeMom. Autumn at the Moelledammen, the Mill Pond - North Bornholm - StumbleUpon. A Gallery of the Most Accurate Female Video Game Costumes | Alright, I’ve seen so many amazing examples of cosplay over the last year or two, I decided to put some of them into one master post.
But as I don’t want an endlessly long gallery, I tried to restrict it with a few basic criteria: video game related and female. Any complaints? As you’ll see in my title, this is not the “Hottest Video Game Cosplayers” as has been done (probably by us), but the “Most Accurate.” As it so happens, the two often go hand in hand, as there are very few female characters in games that anyone would consider unattractive. I picked each of these girls because even though many have tried to portray these specific characters, it takes a very specific look, and a hell of a talented costume designer to make sure they’re the absolute best, which I consider these selections to be.
A professional photographer doesn’t hurt either. Some of these we’ve featured here before with their own galleries, some are new finds I hadn’t see until today. Gallery begins below: Women gamers have more sex than non-gamer females, study finds - Tech Talk -... (CBS/CNET) - What you're about to read might surprise you. According to a study performed by Harris Interactive at the behest of game website Gamehouse, more than half of online gamers are female.
But that's not the real shocker in the results of the analysis of more than 2,000 adults: women gamers have more sex than women non-gamers. Yes, by a margin of 5 percent (57 versus 52.) Are you still with me? Is that post-defibrillator feeling strangely reassuring? Then let me tell you that 74 percent of online gamers and 71 percent of their gaming-abstinent counterparts watch TV at least once a day. This led Gamehouse's chief gamer, Matt Hulett, to offer one of the great sentences of this year, or any other: "Maybe if we all watched a little less TV and played more games online, we'd all be having a little more sex. " I am sure Dr. The survey also found that more than half of lady gamers are in a serious relationship. For more on this story, go to CNET News © 2011 CBS Interactive Inc. Video_games_as_a_grownup.jpg from flamingeeks.com - StumbleUpon.