Content tagged with “video-games”

“ It’s from a Latin word ‘ludere’ which means ‘to play.’ The word ‘ludicrous’ comes from the same root. The word was coined by psychologists in the 1940s. ”

“ The architect who built a concept for modular housing for a 1965 world’s fair in Montreal has ‘completed’ the project with the help of a video game 3D rendering engine. ”

“An absolutely fantastic novel. Very, very long, but it never slows down. It’s more Tom Clancy than cyberpunk. A MMOPRG does play a part in the plot, but it’s more about globe-hopping and gunfights than computers. You know how when you read about ransomware attacks from Asia, you think, ‘Man, I wish…”

“ A game developer uses gaming software to build a realistic version of Flappy Bird. ”

“ Some gamers spent 13 years trying to improve the record time in a specific level of a video game, and seven years grinding away to exploit an obscure hack they were convinced was possible. ”

“This is a fun book that celebrates the packaging and advertising art of the early Atari video games of the 80s. And this is important, because – let’s face it – those games sucked . The graphics were horrible and abstract, and what you were seeing on the screen had very little relation to…the…”

“ This video is ostensibly about suspected cheating in a specific speedrun attempt, but it also explains and demonstrates some of the fascinating intricacies of that subculture. ”

“ Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2020 is so detailed that it’s hard to pick it out from real life. Here’s a side-by-side comparison. ”

“ An interesting meditation on spelunking and how that morphed into a ground-breaking computer game. ”

“ In shattered Venezuela, a shadow economy exists of people who play Runescape characters to higher levels of experience and wealth, then sell them. ”

“ Multiple studies have suggested that playing Tetris immediately following a traumatic event visually engages the brain in a way that can lower the future effects of PTSD. ”

“ In the early 2000s, gaming companies portrayed bullying as a feature of their platforms to be celebrated. ”

“ A weirdly philosophical examination of what a ‘second-person’ video game could be, through the lens of a specific game from a few years back. The discussion might bend your mind a little. ”

“ The story of the E.T. video game for the Atari 2600 which, along with Pac-Man, destroyed then-mighty Atari. ”

“ A video game speedrunner cheated and then tried to cover it up. Interesting for reflections and observations on a niche community and the psychology of acceptance by a group. ”

“ A company has crowd-sourced a quarter of a billion dollars and has been working on a video game for seven years. ”