Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: June 17, 2010
Who said Monopoly was slow and boring? This game’s over in 21 seconds: For a major geek-out, the turns are listed here.
Posted by: Peter on: June 16, 2010
Great article about skill in gaming. Let’s make a graph. The horizontal axis is player skill. On the far left is no skill – just random button-pushing. On the far right is perfect videogame godhood, always doing exactly the correct thing at the correct time in the correct way. The first time you play a [...]
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: May 27, 2010
Fun gaming story of the day from the BBC: Gamblers spent thousands of pounds on a Blackpool hoopla stall – unaware the odds of winning were 2,600 to one. The pictures show the wondrous prizes on offer for any lucky winner. I’m not 100% sure the term “hoopla” has crosses the Atlantic particularly well, but [...]
Posted by: Peter on: May 25, 2010
Millions lost in lost man-hours? The BBC reports that the firm Rescue Time tracked 11,ooo users’ online activity and noticed that Pac-Man kept them on Google’s site about 36 seconds longer than usual. Multiplying those 36 seconds by Google’s 504 million users, that means over 500 years worth of work time spent playing. The firm [...]
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: May 23, 2010
“The sun’s blazing; it’s wonderful weather for gaming.” So true.
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: May 21, 2010
The game of One-Behindmanship appealed to me: One-Behindmanship is a game of stealth manners that turns good etiquette into a competitive pursuit. The objective is simple: be the last of a group through a doorway, without anybody realising what you are doing. There is no fulfilment quite like having your fellows turn to you from [...]
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: May 21, 2010
The Onion has put together a write-up of Foursquare. It’s as much a criticism of the quality of main-stream press coverage of tech start-ups as it is about Foursquare, but an excellent piece: As you’ve no doubt guessed from reading a dozen similar articles in The Washington Post, now’s the part of our “trend piece” [...]
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: May 13, 2010
There’s the pervasive gaming version of Pac-Man, called Pac-Manhattan: Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980′s video game sensation Pac-Man. This analog version of Pac-man is being developed in NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications graduate program, in order to explore what happens when games are removed from [...]
Posted by: Peter on: May 7, 2010
I found this to be pretty hilarious but true. Game designer Zack Hiwiller shows us what Mario might be like if it used modern day game mechanics like tutorials, virtual currencies, and social networks. View all pics here: http://kotaku.com/5531665/
Posted by: Peter on: May 6, 2010
So apparently, there is a phenomenon where people (almost always youngish girls) post online videos called “hauls” which show off recent shopping purchases. A simple YouTube search rendered thousands of examples of girls videoing their various outfits and accessories bought at stores like Forever 21, H&M, Urban Outfitters, and even Walmart. Slate has written a [...]
