PC

EVE Online Developer Sends Their Players Nearly To Space

EVE Online players spend their time zipping through the cosmos, making deals and trading goods across vast swaths of virtual space. So it makes a certain amount of sense that CCP, the studio behind the game, would want to send its players into space… or at least, get them as close as possible.


March 21, 2012
In Real Life

Three Minutes Of Beautiful Space, Just Passing Earth By

For all the Earth’s problems, many of which are ugly things, all it takes is a trip into space to remind us that this giant ball of dirt can still be a remarkable beautiful place.


November 23, 2011
News

This Game Engine Wants To Build Entire Planets

The kids at Outerra aren’t out to do much. Only create a game engine that can create entire planets for you to mess around in.


August 9, 2011
PC

Space Combat Goes A Little Appleseed: Ex Machina, Steel Battalion

The folks behind Burn Zombie Burn are working on a new space shooter that features a transforming fighter designed by the man behind the mechs of Appleseed: Ex Machina and Steel Battalion.


August 5, 2011
Mobile

Rage HD Will Go Free If You Like Rage Enough

Bethesda said today that once the RAGE Facebook page reaches 100,000 “Likes”, RAGE HD for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch will be available for free for one week. Like them on Facebook.


July 4, 2011
News

Space Station Internet Too Slow For Online Video Games

Regarding life in space, everyone has three questions: How do you poop, has anyone screwed, and can you play video games up there. Alright, maybe the first two are more commonly asked, but we have an answer to the third question now.


May 18, 2011
News

These Are The First Lego Sets Ever Launched Into Space

Yesterday, the space shuttle Endeavour launched for the last time, carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and the ExPRESS Logistics to the ISS. But more importantly, it carried Lego to space for the first time in history. These are the sets.


May 5, 2011
In Real Life

Aperture Science Is Decorating This Man’s Home

Reader Sean is moving into “an industrial-style condo” in the coming weeks, and felt like tailoring his home decor to match. So he’s built himself a Portal 2-themed end table Cave Johnson himself would be happy to hurl lemons at.


March 30, 2011
PC

These Video Game Nebulae Could Rival Reality

Eve Online is a game made famous by many things: Its passionate followers, its epic space wars, its impact on the economy of the real Iceland and it’s wondrous glimpses of outer space in a game.


February 26, 2011
News

Astronomers Bear Witness To The First Planet Birth

Astronomers are abuzz over what could be our very first glimpse of a planet being born in the dust surrounding a young star some 350 light-years away from Earth, but don’t start passing out cigars just yet.