magacious writes “Gtec has showcased a computer that can read your mind over at the CeBIT trade show in Germany. Designed primarily to help those who can’t write or speak, the system makes use of a skull cap and wireless technology to transform brain waves into letters. It’s the first patient-ready computer-brain interface, according to its Austrian makers. It takes around 30 seconds per letter for the computer to recognise what you’re saying the (more…)

Good idea or no, EA is going ahead with plans to push out a third-person action-adventure inspired by Dante’s Inferno. But Alighieri isn’t the only literati who penned great game fodder. Read on for a list of classic tales that could just as easily be bastardized as games.

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Injured American ski medal hope Lindsey Vonn is likely to be ready for the Vancouver Games.

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While a wearisome and troubling lack of creativity is a plague within the music, movie, and television industries, there is one medium that would actually benefit from an awakening, and reinvention, of forgotten and slumbering classics: the video game.

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Some of your favorite video game titles almost didn’t make it to the shelves – here are the back-stories you never heard.

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Gamer girls have not only been shown to identify more closely with their men, but have even been found to have more sex on average, too.

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Sometimes companies should stand back and make sure their game title has no double meaning.

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As president, Mr. Obama has neglected the court. He has played only seven known games of basketball since taking office, compared with 25 rounds of golf, a sport he picked up about a decade ago when he was an Illinois state senator. That’s more golf than former President George W. Bush played in two terms.

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These are the games kicked to the bottom shelf of your game store’s “pre-owned” section and that will get you confused looks when you mention them in conversation.

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pdclarry writes “A recent study by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University found that a piece of tuna sushi may not be tuna at all: ‘A piece of tuna sushi has the potential to be an endangered species, a fraud or a health hazard,’ wrote the authors. ‘All three of these cases were uncovered in this study.’ The study, published in PLoS ONE examined 68 samples of tuna sushi purchased from 31 restaurants in Manhattan (more…)