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High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle Jason Rohrer (of Passage, Gravitation, and others) has put together a very different experience in his latest, Between. Hosted by US Esquire as part of their ‘Best and Brightest 2008′ feature, it’s a two-player game with a twist. In his latest Gamasutra feature, Ian Bogost takes a look at the game and the element of disjunctive play we find — a game designed to highlight just how far apart we all are, not bring us together:
On the assumption that President-elect Obama is indeed interested enough in these issues — and with Detroit and Wall Street cratering, that’s a Hulk-sized leap – an editorialist at Kombo has appealed for aggressive, White House-led regulation of the games industry once the new administration takes over.
Despite declining stock value, Giant Interactive — the company behind the intriguing MMO Zhengtu Online, which is a mix of MMO, gambling, real money transactions, and gold farming — is still tearing up the Chinese market. Steve of PlayNoEvil has some interesting analysis up of some recent numbers, which have indicated the the average revenue per player has dropped to around $US66 (RMB 282). Giant is moving to encourage ‘steadier’ playing, instead of simply buying up cash shop items like there’s no tomorrow, so the drop was expected. Still, the money being made is pretty impressive for a domestic game (drop and all):
Robots playing Guitar Hero are not new; one playing the game with up to 98 percent precision is, however. Wired found the Cythbot, a creation of southern California engineering firm Cyth Systems, at this week’s Robo developers conference in Santa Clara. It’s not actually for sale. Nor is it much more than an aluminium cage with pneumatic “fingers” to hit the frets, while a camera tells it what’s coming. Cythbot can play in both solo and compete modes, getting as high as 98 percent, but usually on average around 75 to 80 percent. This is disquieting news, as Isaac Asimov and Stephen Hawking predicted that 100 percent on “Through the Fire and the Flames” is when Skynet becomes self-aware.
