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GDC: Making games to prevent violence against children
by TomSuixi on Mar.11, 2010, under Gadgets, How To, Media, Video Games
The highlight of yesterday’s GDC Serious Game Summit panels focused on an appropriately consequential topic: How games can help protect children from the commonplace dangers they face from predators, both online and off. The panel was led by Child Safety Research and Innovation Center president Allan McCullough — a man who’s strived to develop games which teach young people how to identify and avoid dangerous situations. The two Flash-based games which represent the fruits of McCullough’s two decades of labor look deceptively simple on the surface
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Impressions: Metro 2033
by InwaiderrBena on Nov.16, 2009, under Gadgets, Media, Video Games
click to enlarge It’s a strange yet true fact that portions of Moscow’s underground Metro transit system were built to withstand a nuclear strike and serve as massive fallout bunkers in the event the Cold War ever got incredibly hot . In Metro 2033 , based on the novel of the same name by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky, it did. What’s left of Moscow’s populace has been living in the Metro system for more than two decades, stations have become their own city-states and only the brave (or suicidal) venture to the surface. We recently got to take a guided tour of THQ and 4A Games’ adventure FPS based on the novel and came away with a new appreciation for sunlight, fresh air and the ability for plot-driven, scripted first person games a la Half-Life to still surprise us. We’ll recount what we saw after the break.
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D&D rolls with the changes, ported to Microsoft Surface
by jeffersongates on Oct.20, 2009, under Gadgets, Media, Video Games
By the time your average Dungeons and Dragons player has failed his third death save and gone off to that great dungeon in the sky, he or she’s spent nearly $800,000 on miniatures and various-sided dice. (Trust us, it adds up.) Keeping that number in mind, we’d like to turn your attention to an alternative to tangible tabletop gaming: Surfacescapes , an in-development application for the Microsoft Surface , which attempts to recreate the D&D experience on an outrageously large touch screen. As the Surface currently costs $12,500, the lifetime savings would be abundant .
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Fig. 8 lets you turn work into fun
by ZooxyAnyclelo on Aug.30, 2009, under Gadgets, Media, Video Games
Some jobs in this world are super boring. If you sit in a cubicle all week, drawing up technical diagrams, you know what we’re talking about. Well, there’s no reason you can’t turn all of those lines and numbers into fun, because beneath the surface of all that ink lies a game, one called Fig.
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Fig. 8 lets you turn work into fun
New Star Trek Online screens? You bet your asteroid
by Valungec on Jul.30, 2009, under Gadgets, Media, Video Games
click to engage enlarge Apart from being the “final frontier,” this latest round of shots from Cryptic’s Star Trek Online leads us to believe it’s also absolutely jam-packed with asteroids, most of which are exploding. Sure, there are some pics of away teams down on the surface of various planets — but asteroids, exploding asteroids ! There’s one universal quality evident in the massive quantity of screens in our gallery below: they look really, really nice. In fact, we’re tempted to go as far as to say that, visually, the game ..
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Many find Fallout 3 similar to Philip K. Dick’s ‘The Penultimate Truth’
by Avelluppy on Jun.15, 2009, under Gadgets, Hubs, Media, Video Games
Written by sci-fi superstar Philip K. Dick in 1964, The Penultimate Truth follows people living in underground shelters, for fear of a World War III that they are told is being waged on the surface above them. We could go into more of the similarities between the book and Bethesda’s Fallout 3 , but then that would mean venturing into dangerous, radiation-strewn spoiler territory. Of course, if one wants to say that Bethesda plagiarized The Penultimate Truth , then one must look to previous titles in the Fallout series, as well
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Many find Fallout 3 similar to Philip K. Dick’s ‘The Penultimate Truth’
