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Someone Needs To Make This 8-Bit Abrams Star Trek Video Game Right Now
There’s a very good chance that if you’re a fan of Star Trek, you’re also a fan of video games. And even if you didn’t grow up in a time when 8-bit graphics were mind-blowing, it’s still easy to love this condensed re-telling of J.J. Abram’s first Star Trek movie as told via the original NES.
The Surest Sign Yet That Apple TV Will Be A Gaming Console
This week, Apple released its first-ever instructions for designing and developing a game controller for use with Apple products. The evidence suggests that Apple is gearing up take gaming beyond the confines of its products. It’s going to condone console-style game development. And today’s game controller for iOS 7 could mean that tomorrow’s Apple TV is a full-on gaming platform.
The 100m Scroll Turns Browsing Into An Olympic Sport (One Day)
The Olympics are known for introducing new and experimental events that reflect the region where they’re being held. So if it ever finds itself in and around Silicon Valley, perhaps this surprisingly fun 100m scrolling game — which has you literally scrolling down for some 100m while you race the clock — could become an official Olympic event. If there was ever a way to quantify how awesome you were at the internet, an Olympic gold medal would certainly be it.
Xbox One At E3 2013: Games, Games And More Games
We know what the Xbox One looks like. We know how powerful the new Kinect is. We know how the new controller feels. We know what the guts are. Hell, we even know what we’re going to complain about with the Xbox One already. What we don’t know? How the games will look. Or how they’ll play. Or what they’ll be. We find out today.
NVIDIA Shield Australian Hands-On: The Best Portable Gaming Console You Can’t Buy
When NVIDIA showed off the Android-powered Shield gaming console at CES this year, it was locked away under glass. In the meantime, pre-orders of the device have exploded while NVIDIA tweak the final product. We went hands-on with the new-look Shield at Computex this year, and it’s pretty goddamn amazing.
Guess Where You Are In The World With Google Street View
Think you know your geography? Think you know what a country looks like? What if you were dropped in the middle of no where and had to figure out where you were? That’s what GeoGuessr is. It’s an insanely fun game that gives you an image from Google Street View and asks you to point out where you are on Earth. It’s pretty hard.
Gaming League Employee Turns 14,000 Users Into Bitcoin-Mining Zombies
A good Bitcoin mining rig is hard to find. They’re expensive, they take up space, they wrack up huge energy bills. Not at all practical for your average ESEA gaming network employee. Nefarious code that turns 14,000 of your users into an unwitting personal bitcoin botnet? Totally doable.
A Classy, Hardcover Scoreboook For A Classic, Hardscrabble Game
If there’s one thing I learned about baseball from my pitcher grandpa, it’s that you’re not really watching unless you’re keeping a scorecard. The only cards I’ve ever used have been flimsy things, printed on news stock and quickly tossed in the circular file. But graphic designer Bethany Heck is attempting to inject a little style into the genre with the Halfliner Scorebook, a luxurious-looking scorecard that hit Kickstarter a few days ago.
I Would Totally Play The Lego Breaking Bad Game
Lego games are like Pixar movies: beautifully put together and crafted for people of all ages. They’re great fun. This concept video for a Breaking Bad Lego game though is just something else. You need to see this.
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