Turning a new page on e-books (CNN.com)
Imagine a magic scroll, one that contains a myriad of stories and tells you a different one every night. One that fetches you the morning news, generates customized crossword-puzzles, keeps an eye on your favorite authors and an ear on the local grapevine. Imagine a living, breathing kiosk of brain-candy and a library of literature that's easy to read and rolls right up into the palm of your hand.
Announcement of porn bust puzzles Qld police (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The Queensland Government says state police are puzzled that their federal counterparts went public yesterday with details of an internet paedophile operation.
Exclusive: Alone in the Dark - Inventory (EuroGamer)
Login or Register to rate! Need 3 votes! Much of the game's promised depth comes from combining multiple items as a means of solving puzzles, or simply ramping up destruction.
CHANDLER: Rewarding puzzles (Rocky Mountain News)
Susanne Kuhn's big paintings hanging in the Large Works Gallery at MCA/Denver delve into internalized landscape, art history and the manipulation of perspective and plane.
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Review [PSP PlayStation 2 PC Wii PlayStation 3 Xbox 360] (GameSpot)
Sloppy controls and a lack of cooperative play hurt Indiana Jones' first Lego adventure, but the humor and puzzles still make this worth playing.
A Way to Solve Crosswords Without Pencil (or Eraser) (New York Times)
Crosswords DS ($20 at nintendo.com/ds) puts about 1,000 crossword puzzles, as well as anagrams and word search puzzles, at the tip of your stylus.
Playing the Odds (New York Times)
A mind-bending crash course in probability and statistics.
Ninjas, Legos a good summer start for gamers (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The start of summer is often bittersweet for gamers: there is lots of free time to play, but typically few new releases to fill the long days.
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Disney's <b>games</b> and internet divisions merging
Disney Interactive Studios has published games like Hannah Montana, High School Musical and Turok; meanwhlle, the internet division was responsible for hundreds of online casual games and Pirates of the Caribbean Online. …
<b>Games</b> for Change
In the wake of this week's Games for Change conference in New York, I begin to wonder if this gulf between academia and the games industry might be closing somewhat. Not only were many of this week's sessions geared toward the creation …
looks aren't everything — making <b>games</b> act real
One night several months ago, my buddies and I logged on to play a newly released, online role-playing game. The environments were lush, the details were rich, and the monsters were stunningly rendered. I was quickly sucked into it all …
Reflect, an Art <b>Game</b>
Reflect is an art game created by Mike Treanor as his MFA thesis at UC Santa Cruz. In Treanor's words, the game offers "the ability to see the perspectives of other creatures." I've argued before that one of the powerful features of …
<b>Games</b> for Changing the World
Too late, I caught up with an e-mail from Norm Sutaria about a resource that would have come in quite handy for my video games presentations this week, in Bismarck. Itsa recent blog post in Jeff Cobbs Mission to Learn blog, …
5th Annual <b>Games</b> for Change Festival
I just got back from the 5th Games for Change Festival in NYC. About 350 people attended, mainly various non-profit orgs, funding agencies, game companies, and some academics (although far less than I expected). …
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Turning a new page on e-books (CNN.com)
Imagine a magic scroll, one that contains a myriad of stories and tells you a different one every night. One that fetches you the morning news, generates customized crossword-puzzles, keeps an eye on your favorite authors and an ear on the local grapevine. Imagine a living, breathing kiosk of brain-candy and a library of literature that's easy to read and rolls right up into the palm of your hand.
Announcement of porn bust puzzles Qld police (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The Queensland Government says state police are puzzled that their federal counterparts went public yesterday with details of an internet paedophile operation.
Exclusive: Alone in the Dark - Inventory (EuroGamer)
Login or Register to rate! Need 3 votes! Much of the game's promised depth comes from combining multiple items as a means of solving puzzles, or simply ramping up destruction.
CHANDLER: Rewarding puzzles (Rocky Mountain News)
Susanne Kuhn's big paintings hanging in the Large Works Gallery at MCA/Denver delve into internalized landscape, art history and the manipulation of perspective and plane.
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Review [PSP PlayStation 2 PC Wii PlayStation 3 Xbox 360] (GameSpot)
Sloppy controls and a lack of cooperative play hurt Indiana Jones' first Lego adventure, but the humor and puzzles still make this worth playing.
A Way to Solve Crosswords Without Pencil (or Eraser) (New York Times)
Crosswords DS ($20 at nintendo.com/ds) puts about 1,000 crossword puzzles, as well as anagrams and word search puzzles, at the tip of your stylus.
Ninjas, Legos a good summer start for gamers (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The start of summer is often bittersweet for gamers: there is lots of free time to play, but typically few new releases to fill the long days.
The Ultimate Remote (International Herald Tribune)
Also: The Pentax Optio W60 waterproof camera; a crossword game for Nintendo DS.
Playing the Odds: Leonard Mlodinow's 'The Drunkard's Walk' (International Herald Tribune)
The brain, no matter how well schooled, is just plain bad at dealing with randomness and probability.
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Announcement of porn bust puzzles Qld police (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The Queensland Government says state police are puzzled that their federal counterparts went public yesterday with details of an internet paedophile operation.
Turning a new page on e-books (CNN.com)
Imagine a magic scroll, one that contains a myriad of stories and tells you a different one every night. One that fetches you the morning news, generates customized crossword-puzzles, keeps an eye on your favorite authors and an ear on the local grapevine. Imagine a living, breathing kiosk of brain-candy and a library of literature that's easy to read and rolls right up into the palm of your hand.
CHANDLER: Rewarding puzzles (Rocky Mountain News)
Susanne Kuhn's big paintings hanging in the Large Works Gallery at MCA/Denver delve into internalized landscape, art history and the manipulation of perspective and plane.
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Review [PSP PlayStation 2 PC Wii PlayStation 3 Xbox 360] (GameSpot)
Sloppy controls and a lack of cooperative play hurt Indiana Jones' first Lego adventure, but the humor and puzzles still make this worth playing.
A Way to Solve Crosswords Without Pencil (or Eraser) (New York Times)
Crosswords DS ($20 at nintendo.com/ds) puts about 1,000 crossword puzzles, as well as anagrams and word search puzzles, at the tip of your stylus.
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Review [PlayStation 2 PC Wii PlayStation 3 Xbox 360] (GameSpot)
The third time is the charm for Traveller's Tales–logical puzzles and great offline co-op play make this the best Lego game yet.
Self-Confidence Leads To Unstoppable Mind Drive (CBS4 Miami)
As people get older, looking for ways to stay mentally sharp performing tasks from crossword puzzles to playing video games, a new study suggests confidence building could improve one's life.
Things to make you smarter and more interesting (Vail Trail)
Crossword puzzles were first created in the 19th century in England and were patterned after the word square. On Dec. 21, 1913, Arthur Wynne from Liverpool published the first crossword puzzle in the New York World. It looked much different from the crosswords used today and had no black squares.
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Turning a new page on e-books (CNN.com)
Imagine a magic scroll, one that contains a myriad of stories and tells you a different one every night. One that fetches you the morning news, generates customized crossword-puzzles, keeps an eye on your favorite authors and an ear on the local grapevine. Imagine a living, breathing kiosk of brain-candy and a library of literature that's easy to read and rolls right up into the palm of your hand.
Announcement of porn bust puzzles Qld police (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
The Queensland Government says state police are puzzled that their federal counterparts went public yesterday with details of an internet paedophile operation.
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Review [PSP PlayStation 2 PC Wii PlayStation 3 Xbox 360] (GameSpot)
Sloppy controls and a lack of cooperative play hurt Indiana Jones' first Lego adventure, but the humor and puzzles still make this worth playing.
CHANDLER: Rewarding puzzles (Rocky Mountain News)
Susanne Kuhn's big paintings hanging in the Large Works Gallery at MCA/Denver delve into internalized landscape, art history and the manipulation of perspective and plane.
A Way to Solve Crosswords Without Pencil (or Eraser) (New York Times)
Crosswords DS ($20 at nintendo.com/ds) puts about 1,000 crossword puzzles, as well as anagrams and word search puzzles, at the tip of your stylus.
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Review [PlayStation 2 PC Wii PlayStation 3 Xbox 360] (GameSpot)
The third time is the charm for Traveller's Tales–logical puzzles and great offline co-op play make this the best Lego game yet.
Self-Confidence Leads To Unstoppable Mind Drive (CBS4 Miami)
As people get older, looking for ways to stay mentally sharp performing tasks from crossword puzzles to playing video games, a new study suggests confidence building could improve one's life.
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Disney's <b>games</b> and internet divisions merging
Disney Interactive Studios has published games like Hannah Montana, High School Musical and Turok; meanwhlle, the internet division was responsible for hundreds of online casual games and Pirates of the Caribbean Online. …
The top-selling <b>games</b> in the US over the last 15 years
Forbes, with data supplied by NPD, has released a list of the top-selling games in the US over the last 15 years. NPD only began tracking data 15 years ago, so there may be an outlier from the '80s or early '90s, but it appears the …
Sky <b>Games</b>
Environment: Global warming alarmists haven't made much progress in getting lawmakers to join their cause. So naturally they're going to try to…
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