In a gaming world saturated with online achievements, the most badass achievement has got to be “Helped Fight AIDS IRL”. How does one go about getting it? Simple: just unravel a complicated three-dimensional architecture of an AIDS-like virus that has eluded scientists for nearly a decade. The game that made this real-life achievement possible, appropriately […]
Enter the… Swiss Army Knife? Yep. Victorinox Swiss Army’s new Slim and Slim Duo USB devices, ranging in storage from 4 GB to 128 GB self-destructs if tampered with, either physically or with malicious software and comes complete with a host of unhackable encryption software (they’ve offered $150,000 to anyone who can hack it, but […]
If you haven’t played the original Portal, you’re missing out on one of the biggest milestones in gaming culture. But don’t panic! It’s available for free download through Steam for Mac or PC until September 20. Even if you don’t have time to play it between now and then, do yourself a favor: download […]
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of cheap games (cheap indie games, specifically), but that doesn’t mean I sit around and play free tower defense games all day (well, not every day). No, sir, I still have a taste for the big expensive wow-me games, but sometimes I wish they weren’t so expensive. Today, […]
With the official announcement of games for Google+ right on the heels of EA’s $1.3 billion purchase of PopCap, it seems that a quiet war is slowly brewing between superpowers. A war that seems almost nonexistent on the outside, but has a dark and violent underside. So, exactly like the Cold War. Who are the […]
At New York’s Museum of Modern Art, a new exhibit entitled “Talk to Me” focuses on the way humans interact with technology, either in communicating with each other or speaking with the objects themselves. If that sounds like a pretty broad subject, it is. Everyone will definitely find something intriguing among the 200 or so […]
There’s an old saying that goes “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Well, for this case, “hell” is holding a severed hand every time you try to make a phone call, and the “good intentions” are all the reasons this severed hand replica should comfort you instead of completely creeping you […]
UPDATE: It’s all a bizarre hoax. Techcitement is keeping this story up to show we can fall victims to this weird prank just as well as Gawker, CNN, and the BBC (who have removed the article from their site). Plus, Jon still thinks IE users are dumb and we think the image of the browser […]
Aside from inspiring some pretty badass costumes, retro-technology mods, and deviantART sketches, steam power may serve an actual purpose in the near future: green energy.
A lot of fellow gamers talk about their love of “hardcore” games, but they’re missing out entirely on where video games are actually headed. The future is indie.
