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Jilted man uses engagement ring to buy full size Halo armor

Friday, November 18, 2011 - 7:43am

In what has to go down in the history books as the best bounce back from a bad relationship ever, Eric Smith used the engagement ring he intended to propose with to buy a full-size suit of Master Chief's iconic green armor from the Halo series.

Eye Asteroids: World's first eye-controlled video game

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 3:43am

The past few years has seen a lot of innovation in the realm of game controllers. From motion controllers to touchscreens to tablets like the Wii U, we've come a long way from the tried-and-tested joystick. Now we may have the most groundbreaking controller yet: your eyes.

Gamers are at it again, this time discovering new worlds

Eileen Marable

Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 3:29pm

First it was solving a complex protein puzzle related to the HIV virus, and this time it is the 40,000 registered users of the game Planet Hunters who have identified 69 potential new planets and two very strong candidate planets outside the Earth's solar system. We think we see a new trend in the making.

Scientists unravel AIDS virus mystery with unlikely ally: gamers

Eileen Marable

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 8:40am

We always knew gamers had serious smarts, but now the rest of the world knows it, too. Gamers have been listed alongside scientists as responsible for cracking the code of how an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus is put together.

Computer game to cut high school education time down to one year

Raymond Wong

Friday, September 9, 2011 - 10:51am

You read that headline correctly. Nolan Bushnell, who you may know as Atari's founder says he's been working on a project called "Speed to Learn" — a cloud computing game that he believes can be implemented to give students a complete high school education in under one year.

GameStop gearing up to sell streaming Xbox 360/PS3 games

Raymond Wong

Friday, August 19, 2011 - 8:15am

Still clinging on to your physical DVD/Blu-ray games? Satisfied with buying digital versions of games instead? Owning console games could become a thing of the past if GameStop's tests for a streaming games service pans out.

This is what Blade Runner set in Paris would have looked like

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 3:44pm

You just haven't lived until you've seen Paris at night. The molten, orange lights. The glowing billboards. Flying police cars in the rain. The wind turbines over the River Seine. What? That doesn't sound like the Paris you've heard about? Oh, sorry — I must be thinking of crazy cyberpunk Paris.

Best 3D printing use ever: adorable RC Mario Kart turtle shells

Kevin Hall

Monday, August 8, 2011 - 8:17am

Michael "Skimbal" Curry has honed in on the best use ever for the budding 3D printing technology: recreating Mario Kart's much loved (or hated, depending on what side of the shell you're on) turtley projectile. The Turtle Shell Racers are small, remote controlled and oh my god my fingers don't work anymore I just want one.

Rage requires up to 22GB of free space for game install on 360

Raymond Wong

Monday, August 8, 2011 - 5:20am

There's a lot to get excited for in id Software's Rage. One thing Xbox 360 owners won't enjoy? Rage ships on two discs and has a whopping 21-22GB game install size.

Blizzard 'surprised' over Diablo rage, says piracy isn't a factor

Kevin Hall

Friday, August 5, 2011 - 3:42pm

Blizzard's VP of Online Technologies, Robert Bridenbecker, has waded into the hot water of the PR pool to try and quell the negative response to the game developer's decision to make Diablo 3 online-only. He says the company is surprised over the furor, and dropped a surprise of his own: piracy apparently didn't influence the decision.

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Video Games stories

Jilted man uses engagement ring to buy full size Halo armor

Eye Asteroids: World's first eye-controlled video game

Gamers are at it again, this time discovering new worlds

Scientists unravel AIDS virus mystery with unlikely ally: gamers

Computer game to cut high school education time down to one year

GameStop gearing up to sell streaming Xbox 360/PS3 games

This is what Blade Runner set in Paris would have looked like

Best 3D printing use ever: adorable RC Mario Kart turtle shells

Rage requires up to 22GB of free space for game install on 360

Blizzard 'surprised' over Diablo rage, says piracy isn't a factor

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