-
Recent Posts
Archives
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
Categories
Monthly Archives: December 2015
See the old sci-fi magazine that inspired Her Story
THE COVER OF WEIRD FUTURE’S HER STORY ISSUE (1937) Click upper-right hand corner to enlarge As I mentioned last time, and the time before that, I recently stumbled into a mysterious little shop called ”Curios, Rarities, Bibelots & Old Sci-Fi Magazines That Inspired Games … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Gaming
Comment Now
What do the biggest tech companies have in store for CES?
Don't get us wrong: When Team Engadget arrives at CES in Vegas next week, we plan to be thorough, combing through aisles upon aisles of crapgadgets so that you don't have to. But before we start trawling the Las Vegas … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Gaming
Comment Now
3D printed digital sundial is brilliant and insane
People have been using the sun to tell the time since life began, but few ever expected that system to be worthy of an upgrade. Step forward a French engineer, going under the name of Mojoptix, who has created a … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Gaming
Comment Now
AT&T completes its first LTE calls with another carrier
You can already get high-quality LTE phone calls on multiple US carriers, but they're not all that practical when they only work between customers from the same carrier. They're on the cusp of hitting the mainstream, though: AT&T has quietly … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Gaming
Comment Now
Consortium: The Tower trailer reveals January Kickstarter date
The last time we checked in on Consortium: The Tower Prophecy, it was still called Consortium: The Tower Prophecy, and not just Consortium: The Tower, as it is now known. The ambitious sequel to Interdimensional Games’ immersive sim Consortium (which is currently … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Gaming
Comment Now
Nadine the social robot takes you straight to ‘Uncanny Valley’
The two women in the image above might resemble each other, but looking more closely at the one in black might make you feel a bit uncomfortable. That's because she's a humanoid robot named Nadine, made in the likeness of … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Gaming
Comment Now
Save up to 75% on top PC games in the Golden Joystick Store (updated)
New today in the Golden Joystick Store’s huge holiday sale: Bioshock Infinite, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Civ V Complete — all at a massive 75% off! Plus you can still pick up Creative Assembly’s tense Alien: Isolation for 75% off, as well as the brilliant, gorgeous adventure Bastion. You can … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Gaming
Comment Now
Spend an afternoon with the ‘Sonic’ charity marathon
The fine folks at Respawn Point are in the middle of a non-stop, seven-day Sonic the Hedgehog marathon, livestreamed on Twitch and benefiting UK charity Special Effect, which helps people with disabilities play video games. The stream started on Dece… … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Gaming
Comment Now
Marines send its ‘AlphaDog’ robot to the farm
The Legged Squad Support System (LS3, or AlphaDog) won't be part of the near-future Marine corps. Following years of development and improvements through DARPA and Boston Dynamics, the robot was deemed too loud and difficult for deployment. The robo… Engadget … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Gaming
Comment Now
Vladimir Putin dissolved Roscosmos, Russia’s federal space agency
With the flourish of a pen earlier today, Russian president Vladimir Putin officially put an end to Roscosmos, the country's federal space agency. That decree capped off over a year's worth of organizational despair as the agency saw its ten-year … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Gaming
Comment Now