By now you’ve probably heard of one incredibly dedicated Minecraft builder’s quest to recreate the world’s continents at .06% of their actual size. So just how big is that. Permit us some back-of-the-internet-enveleop math, please. The size of all of the Earth’s continents is 57,393,000 square miles
–Tomas Rawlings, designer of Syrian-rebel simulation Endgame: Syria. The game was recently rejected from distribution over the Apple app store.
That’s the case made by Chad Kilgore, a designer at Day 1 Studios, today at Gamasutra. Gardner hypothesized that human intelligence was not reducible to single metrics like IQ; rather, our intelligence is multiple and broad, spanning seven categories: spatial, linguistic mathematical-logical, bodily
Speed Demos Archive, the place where gaming’s most impressive athletes demonstrate their mastery, is currently holding Awesome Games Done Quick, a week-long fundraising event, the proceeds of which are entirely donated to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Speed runners will attempt more than 100 games
The United States, population 315,129,543, spent about 17 billion dollars on gaming last year. China, population 1,319,175,330 (that’s four times as big) spent more than half that on videogames in 2012 (9.7 billion), according to The Next Web. That makes China, with its urban migration trends and ec
