Test Tube Baby
Test Tube Baby — T-shirt design by Patrickspens. Via Laughing Squid. This should be a game! Won’t someone think of…
Sons of Pong
In the beginning was Pong. And in the beginning it stood alone. But not for long …. In September 1972,…
The Path
This looks interesting: “There is a single rule in the game, but it needs to be broken. There is a…
“Sims” Creator To Debut Crowd-Sourced, Choose-Your-Own-Adventure TV Show
Will Wright, creator of The Sims, Sim City and Spore will be co-producing a new program on CurrentTV called “Bar…
Traffic Mimes
“The people of Bogota were more concerned about social disapproval than traffic fines, and so mimes [were hired] to playfully…
Scott Steinberg on Games as Art
Scott Steinberg asks: who says video games aren’t art? Detractors can rightly argue that not every game technically fits the…
American Business Embraces ‘Gamification’
Gaming is big business — and vice versa: Play to win: The game-based economy Companies are realizing that “gamification” —…
The Exterminator’s Want-Ad
The Exterminator’s Want-Ad is a wickedly clever short story by Bruce Sterling (one of my favorite writers) about a dystopian…
This should be a game: Elevated Bus
A giant elevated bus that drives above cars — a tunnel on wheels — too cool not to be in…
Self-Replication in Conway’s Game of Life
Andrew Wade has created — or discovered, if you prefer — a self-replicating pattern in Conway’s Game of Life. New…