Life Game Archive

  • Video: Arduino-powered life size electronic snowball fight game (I can’t explain it)

    Video: Arduino-powered life size electronic snowball fight game (I can’t explain it)

    Okay, just humor me and watch the video, please. It’s not like I get paid to describe things with… those… um, you know, the things that make stuff readable. With individual letters, etc. And periods, commas — the things in between those. This here’s an interactive, outdoor electronic snowball fight comprised of two life size [...]

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  • So Mafia games are really popular?

    So Mafia games are really popular?

    I guess Mafia games are a big hit these days. Zynga's Mafia Wars, a multiplayer game that's playable on social networks like Facebook, as well as the iPhone, has attracted some 4 million gamers to its clutches. (This, despite the fact that it's more or less a rip-off of the earlier Mafia Life game.) Part of the game's success, I think, can be attributed to the fact that, unlike in games like World of Warcraft, there's not as much of a social stigma attached to “whacking” rival mobsters—slaying dragons and whatnot is still sorta “nerdy,” something that good ol' Cnet says, too. So we're in good company here.

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