5 Things Video Games Do Better Than Any Other Forms of Art. Left 4 Dead 3. iPad mini is almost here: What you need to know. Photo credit: 9to5Mac If you're experiencing a bit of déjà vu from the hype over a new Apple product, it's completely understandable.
After all, we just got through another iPhone launch, with an incredible amount of online buzz, industry speculation, insider info and leaked photos leading up to it. So here we go again. The rabid tech community has now turned its sights to what seems to be an imminent announcement by Apple for a smaller version of its best-selling iPad tablet. Dubbed by many as the iPad Mini, iPad Air or iPad mini (if Apple takes a page from its iPod touch, nano and shuffle line), this compact and less expensive ebook-reader-on-steroids would go up against the likes of Amazon's Kindle Fire HD, Google's Nexus 7, B&N Nook HD+ and the Kobo Vox. Fall Games Guide 2012. The 10 hardest Xbox Achievements. They have no value in the real world (yet), but good luck telling that to the millions of gamers hopeless addicted to Microsoft's Xbox Achievements.
Earning some of these digital tips of the cap can takes hours, if not days or weeks. Yet, for many, many gamers, they're an integral part of what makes the Xbox 360 such a great console. Happy 25th birthday, Street Fighter! (Credit: Capcom) The most famous fighter in video game history might be a little old, but it still packs a wallop.
And lots of Hadoukens. The secret to its success? To Russ Frushtick, senior editor of video game site Polygon, it's all about balance. 17 big games you can play for free. The $60 video game isn't going away anytime soon, but that doesn't mean you have to shell out big money if you want to play a triple-A title these days.
7 Amazing Video Games We'll Never Get to Play. Video games face the same gargantuan hurdle as every other creative medium: To get your property made, you have to first filter it through a lot of people who hate ideas almost as much as they love money.
Before you can create something truly novel, it must first survive the veritable gauntlet of assholes that is upper management. That's why we end up getting a new Tomb Raider sequel every year, even though anybody could ask the fans one simple question and be instantly presented with literally decades of blockbuster concepts. That question is: What's your brilliant, perfect, tragically nonexistent game idea?
I asked the question once before, and then spent the rest of the afternoon punching the wall in furious despair that I would never get to play those games. 10 insanely tough games. Think you're good at games?
Sure you do. Who doesn't? The only thing gamers love more than playing is bragging about their skills. Hottest Girls in Games. - StumbleUpon. This $2.8 million Leica is the world’s most expensive camera. Microsoft patents pressure-sensitive Xbox controller that can remember your hands - Video Games Reviews, Cheats. Student reveals the origins of his real-life Portal turret. SuperUber Creates Real-Life Interactive Experiences Through Gaming. Photo by Bryan Derballa.
SuperUber is an interactive design and creative technology firm based in Brazil and New York. They have a penchant for creating social experiences that come to life in the form of smart and playful interactive installations. We brought their work Super Pong, a digital mash-up of foosball and the classic video game Pong, to last year’s New York event and it was such a hit, we commissioned a brand new artwork for San Francisco. Five things to know about ‘Diablo III’ Diablo III (Blizzard) Releasing for the PC and Mac on May 15, Diablo III is just around the corner.
Passionate fans have been waiting years for this -- it's been over a decade since Diablo II first stormed shelves -- and with midnight sale launch events occurring all over the country on Monday, there are going to be millions of red-eyed gamers dragging themselves to work Tuesday morning. Those who don't phone in sick, that is. But why the fervor? What makes this particular action/role-playing romp such a big deal? Trap the Tiger. One Per Cent: Next Xbox could have a biometric controller. Jacob Aron, technology reporter (Image: US Patent Office) The controller for the next Xbox might be able to take biometric readings of your hand, according to a recent Microsoft patent.
It describes a device that strongly resembles the current Xbox 360 controller, but also comes equipped with pressure sensors capable of identifying individuals or even reading their emotions. Magnum Pleasure Hunt. Three tech gadgets you might be tempted to buy, but shouldn't. Transforming a Nintendo 64 into a Handheld Console.
His name was Marauder Shields. BioShock Infinite Delayed to 2013. BioShock Infinite has been delayed to 2013.
Despite a prior announcement that the game would hit stores on October 16th of this year, director Ken Levine has now revealed a new release date of February 26, 2013. In a letter released today, Levine says the team at Irrational has “come to realize that some specific tweaks and improvements will make Infinite into something even more extraordinary” and that the delay will give the development team "the time they need.” According to Levine, the original BioShock saw a similar delay shortly before its initial release date. “I won’t kid you: BioShock Infinite is a very big game, and we’re doing things that no one has ever done in a first-person shooter,” Levine wrote. “We had a similar experience with the original BioShock, which was delayed several months as our original ship date drew near. - 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.