Paris’ abandoned subways to be turned into awesome underground entertainment venues
Mayoral candidate Nathalie Kosciusk-Morizet has proposed to turn the city’s ghost stations into a restaurant, nightclub, and even a theater.
Public Spaces
In Ethiopia, one game design professor believes that young girls hold the key
Jessica Hammer is changing Eastern Africa, one dice roll at a time.
Scientists figure out the optimal speed for living life
It’s one of the most tired clichés in modern life – that thanks in large part to the always-on, always-connected paradigm enabled by modern technology, American lives are busy, crazy, and unhealthy. That may well be true. But it has less to do with technology than we might think – and more interesti
Should more games tell us to stop playing and do something else?
The first time I remember seeing a “take a break” message in a game was for Wii Sports. After a set duration of time, a screen popped up between rounds. “Why not take a break?” it said. “You can pause the game by pressing +.” The accompanying image is a stylized freeze-frame of passive aggression: A
No video games allowed in this New Jersey public library
It seems that somebody at New Jersey’s Patterson Public Library system didn’t get the memo in 2011 that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of games as a form of protected expression. The library system reportedly banned people from playing computer games in the library, catching the attention of the N