Earlier this year I read about Anna Anthropy’s game, Drink, and I immediately became fascinated. Get this: in Drink, you play a drinking game against a computer opponent. Yes, a computer opponent. It sounds kind of absurd...

Le Point writes: “A young Thai addicted to video games is dead in front of his computer after concatenation of several marathons night, police said on Thursday, seeking the exact cause of death.” Originally written ...

This is rather interesting: a study floating around over the past few days (and documented in the above video) concludes that in a simulation of surgery, high schoolers who play video games regularly do as well—and someti...

Knowing the public’s desire — nay, need — for movies based on 20-year-old computer games, Panorama Media has just announced that the vastly overqualified Roger Avary, who co-wrote Pulp Fiction, will both write...

When it released in 1980, computer voice compression cost around $1,000 per word. Berzerk spoke about 20, and it was a sensation. Gorf and later Wizard of Wor likewise used speech synthesis to heckle players. We’ve come a...

Morning, folks? I haven’t had a chance to get on my computer this weekend. But now I’m up, I’ve got my coffee, let me just check the ol’ email and see if– Originally written and published by at Top...

Following a bizarre turn of events and a highly unlikely TV commercial, actor Jerry Lambert – for years the “face” of the PlayStation brand – is being sued by none other than Sony itself. Despite having ...

One thing before we start today: When my computer died last week, I lost about 100 bookmarked fan fics. Not all of them were good FFF material, but they were all potential FFFs, and now I’m left with nothing. What I’...

A team from The University of Texas have, along with Romanian computer scientist Mihai Polceanu, won a competition for the “BotPrize”, which is awarded to whoever can come up with the most “human-like” p...