Jane McGonigal asks: Why doesn’t the real world work more like an online game? In the best-designed games, our human experience is optimized: We have important work to do, we... Read more
Now You Can Get Stabbed, Virtually The Kajimoto research group at the University of Electro-Communications has invented a device that simulates something passing through your hand. It’s been... Read more
Remember that $25 computer about the size of a flash drive game developer David Braben unveiled in May? According to a video postedon Saturday, it can run games in high-definition, too. The... Read more
The Most Disturbing Presentation of the Year I invite you to take a journey with game designer Jesse Schell as his mind goes for a little stroll in the near future. He gave a talk in Februar... Read more
Nintendo’s new 3DS device is quite literally like nothing you have seen before. Have you ever watched full-motion 3-D video without wearing those annoying special glasses? Didn’t think so. W... Read more
A common criticism of single-player video games is that they isolate their players, shutting them off from anything or anyone that exists in the real world. Well, that certainly can’t be sai... Read more
Image via Wikipedia My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: “Daddy’s book.” She was holding my Kindle electronic reader. Here is a child only beginning to talk, revealin... Read more