Space

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This Game Engine Wants To Build Entire Planets

11:30PM November 23, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »

PC

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

11:35PM August 9, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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. More »

Mobile

Rage HD Will Go Free If You Like Rage Enough

5:21AM August 5, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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.

News

Space Station Internet Too Slow For Online Video Games

9:00AM July 4, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »

News

These Are The First Lego Sets Ever Launched Into Space

1:40AM May 18, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

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. More »

In Real Life

Aperture Science Is Decorating This Man’s Home

8:30PM May 5, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »

PC

These Video Game Nebulae Could Rival Reality

3:00AM March 30, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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. More »

News

Astronomers Bear Witness To The First Planet Birth

6:00AM February 26, 2011 | Mike Fahey

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. More »

PC

Celebrity Impersonators Flood The Virtual Spaceways

4:20AM January 28, 2011 | Mike Fahey

EVE Online recently introduced an amazing new character customisation tool that has the game’s players seeing virtual stars at every turn. Space Conan O’Brien heads up our star-studded gallery. More »

News

NASA Tables Plan To Expose Monkeys To Gamma Radiation

6:03AM December 15, 2010 | Cyriaque Lamar

Protests from animal rights activists have put a moratorium on NASA plans to expose 27 squirrel monkeys to gamma-ray radiation. Researchers hoped to simulate the effects of space radiation on humans, but protesters claim the experiment’s cruel and unnecessary. More »