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• Bookmark Reaching the Far Lands: one man's journey to the end of 'Minecraft'…

  On March 28, 2011, Kurt J. Mac opened a new game of Minecraft and started to walk — and he hasn't stopped. Nearly three years later, he's traveled seven hundred virtual…

  February 26 2014, 9:06am | Comments

• Instagram Glti.ch Doooooooooooooooooom!

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• GLTI.CH Karaoke How to join the DOOM GLTI.CH WAN Party

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• Bookmark How to Beat Writer’s Block | Public Seminar

  These games are offered as solutions for two kinds of problems. One is writer’s block. Let’s be done with the waiting for ‘inspiration’. Let’s just get to work all one has…

  November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Chess 2: The Sequel - How a street fightin' man fixed the…

  Chess has problems. Not for most of us, perhaps - not for the bluffers and the fudgers and the seat-of-the-pants players who prod a path through matchups in which each side's…

  November 20 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Permanent death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  In role-playing video games (RPGs), permanent death (sometimes permadeath or PD) is a situation in which player characters (PCs) die permanently and are removed from the game.[1] Less common terms with…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

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• Bookmark The Architectural Origins of the Chess Set | Design Decoded

  Prior to 1849, there was no such thing as a “normal chess set.” At least not like we think of it today. Over the centuries that chess had been played, innumerable…

  April 18 2013, 4:53pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 10 2013, 5:28am | Comments

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  The Art of the 64 Squares

  October 7 2012, 3:25pm | Comments

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  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Algorithm beats jigsaw-solving record

  We have met our match at the genteel pastime of jigsaw puzzles. It seems an algorithm can now whiz through 10,000 pieces in 24 hours. The speedy solver could also help…

  June 27 2012, 3:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments

  Grandmasters of comparable skill now come to championship games with computer-generated analysis of their opponents’ opening lines and likely moves. Home preparation has always been important, but computers have made it…

  June 6 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark A dirty twist on beating the prisoner's dilemma

  The "prisoner's dilemma" is a classic psychology game used to study how collaboration evolves in animal societies. Now, a pair of mathematicians have identified a new way of playing the game…

  June 6 2012, 2:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Nevolution: Metaphysical Mario

  In which I string together a series of videos, links and text that use Mario as a base for Science. First is Mario and the Many World Interpretation of Quantum Physics…

  May 30 2012, 1:54am | Comments

• Bookmark "Videogames are the experience of being ruled"

  Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed to…

  May 17 2012, 3:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Network Science of the Game of Go

  They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

  April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments

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  Rorschmap

  April 7 2012, 4:04pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Sound of the Internet

  If the internet makes a sound (and it does), are you listening? Our correspondent uses software to transform the digital ephemera of web browsing—from network traffic to JavaScript, browser histories to…

  March 29 2012, 9:44am | Comments

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  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Free Universal Construction Kit

  Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10…

  March 19 2012, 6:31am | Comments

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  Interactive Fluid Dynamics Rendered in ASCII

  March 17 2012, 4:54am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | Comments

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  Games within videogames: Hoarding

  February 20 2012, 7:05am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 14 2012, 5:24am | Comments

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  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

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  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

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• Bookmark Reaching the Far Lands: one man's journey to the end of 'Minecraft'…

  On March 28, 2011, Kurt J. Mac opened a new game of Minecraft and started to walk — and he hasn't stopped. Nearly three years later, he's traveled seven hundred virtual…

  February 26 2014, 9:06am | Comments

• Instagram Glti.ch Doooooooooooooooooom!

  January 24 2014, 3:13pm | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke How to join the DOOM GLTI.CH WAN Party

  January 23 2014, 6:30am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 2 2013, 1:04pm | Comments

• Bookmark How to Beat Writer’s Block | Public Seminar

  These games are offered as solutions for two kinds of problems. One is writer’s block. Let’s be done with the waiting for ‘inspiration’. Let’s just get to work all one has…

  November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Chess 2: The Sequel - How a street fightin' man fixed the…

  Chess has problems. Not for most of us, perhaps - not for the bluffers and the fudgers and the seat-of-the-pants players who prod a path through matchups in which each side's…

  November 20 2013, 5:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Permanent death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  In role-playing video games (RPGs), permanent death (sometimes permadeath or PD) is a situation in which player characters (PCs) die permanently and are removed from the game.[1] Less common terms with…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 13 2013, 3:59am | Comments

• Bookmark The Architectural Origins of the Chess Set | Design Decoded

  Prior to 1849, there was no such thing as a “normal chess set.” At least not like we think of it today. Over the centuries that chess had been played, innumerable…

  April 18 2013, 4:53pm | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

  April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 10 2013, 5:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Art of the 64 Squares

  October 7 2012, 3:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Algorithm beats jigsaw-solving record

  We have met our match at the genteel pastime of jigsaw puzzles. It seems an algorithm can now whiz through 10,000 pieces in 24 hours. The speedy solver could also help…

  June 27 2012, 3:29pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments

  Grandmasters of comparable skill now come to championship games with computer-generated analysis of their opponents’ opening lines and likely moves. Home preparation has always been important, but computers have made it…

  June 6 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark A dirty twist on beating the prisoner's dilemma

  The "prisoner's dilemma" is a classic psychology game used to study how collaboration evolves in animal societies. Now, a pair of mathematicians have identified a new way of playing the game…

  June 6 2012, 2:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Nevolution: Metaphysical Mario

  In which I string together a series of videos, links and text that use Mario as a base for Science. First is Mario and the Many World Interpretation of Quantum Physics…

  May 30 2012, 1:54am | Comments

• Bookmark "Videogames are the experience of being ruled"

  Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed to…

  May 17 2012, 3:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Network Science of the Game of Go

  They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

  April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Rorschmap

  April 7 2012, 4:04pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  April 1 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Sound of the Internet

  If the internet makes a sound (and it does), are you listening? Our correspondent uses software to transform the digital ephemera of web browsing—from network traffic to JavaScript, browser histories to…

  March 29 2012, 9:44am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark The Free Universal Construction Kit

  Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10…

  March 19 2012, 6:31am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Interactive Fluid Dynamics Rendered in ASCII

  March 17 2012, 4:54am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

  March 16 2012, 11:14am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Games within videogames: Hoarding

  February 20 2012, 7:05am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 14 2012, 5:24am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Re:Thinking Games

  January 25 2012, 3:50am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost

  January 13 2012, 2:50am | Comments

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