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Mangle your nostalgia with E.T. turned city sim

Remember how E.T. made scary aliens into something relateable? Or how exciting it was that other children had a cosmic adventure? Well forget those parts of the movie that you liked, since none of them feature in the new E.T. game for iOS. At VentureBeat, Jeffrey Grubb assures us, at least, that the

Watching inexperienced gamers is hard; not telling them what to do is harder

Ed Smith let his girlfriend play Heavy Rain, and then proceeded to tell her how to play it. I mean, come on! She hadn’t found all the FBI agent’s clues! She hadn’t even examined the body! I try to explain that she’s an FBI agent, that a boy’s been murdered; I’ll be damned if any serial killer is goi

Tourette’s relief through videogames

Mike Schiller at Polygon relates how his daughter found relief from her painful coughing tic through the DS game Planet Puzzle League. Video games allow her to engage her brain in a way that forces her to process and respond to audiovisual stimuli, without the pressure to be evaluated that comes wit

Let your Facebook friends hug you through Likes

MIT scientists found a way to get in physical touch with your Facebook friends: a vest that inflates whens someone likes something you posted on Facebook. Eric Abent at Slash Gear reports: The idea of this vest – which has been dubbed Like-A-Hug – is to simulate the feeling of receiving a hug from y