The Titan, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, is the world’s most powerful supercomputer. It does 17.59 thousand-trillion calculations (petaflops) per second. The 4,300-square-foot monster achieves this insane number of parallel by pairing powerful CPUs with GPUs (graphical processin
Remember that scene in the first episode of this season’s Breaking Bad? The one where Walter and Jesse use the enormous magnet to destroy an evidence room? Yeah, well, videogame crooks are stepping their game up – these aren’t the usual counterfeiters or torrentors, but the real daring deal: The thi
What’s the point of crystallized intelligence anymore? You can look anything you want up in seconds (such as the volume of a dose of boar semen). Soon the part of the brain that holds facts will be nothing more than a cerebral appendix, and we’ll have it removed to make room for more pure cranial pr
-Ken Levine, Irrational Games creative director, on the ending of his forthcoming BioShock Infinite.
The rise of independent games and the community surrounding them has been the most heartening story in gaming over the past few years. Small studios – sometimes just a couple of friends, as in the case of Super Meat Boy – have produced a handful of truly exemplary games, games that will be played fo
