Category Archives: games

StarForce Must Die

The Escapist has written an article on the world’s most hated copy protection. In any forum topic about StarForce, embittered players across the spectrum speak in one voice about crippled operating systems and ruined CD drives. Many players report they … Continue reading

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World’s hardest Sudoku puzzle

Supposedly, this is one of the hardest Sudoku puzzles to solve. It’s times like these that the internet makes me most happy. When respectable online publications publish entertaining and interesting stories about the world’s hardest Sudoku puzzle, you’d at least … Continue reading

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Minesweeper in 38,240 PixelBlocks

Check out this gorgeous reproduction of Minesweeper using PixelBlocks. Completion of the minesweeper sub-project. 38,240 pixelblocks and over 6 feet tall. Bigger than the window! PixelProject set on flickr (via MAKE: Blog)

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Antiriddle: The New Hardest Riddle on the Internet

A new web-based riddle, similar to Notpron, and the Python Challenge. The goal of the Antiriddle project is to not only entertain those that enjoy intellectual challenges, but also to teach a certain degree of computer literacy and to foster … Continue reading

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First Person Shooter Glasses

These totally cracked me up. Now you can feel like you are playing a FPS all the time! Link (via Gizmodo)

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An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time

This article presents a significant optimization for Conway’s Game of Life. Making a slow program fast can lead to both joy and frustration. Frequently, the best you can do is a low-level trick to double or maybe quadruple the speed … Continue reading

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How Lara Croft Steals Hearts: The Final Girl

An article at Wired News explains why the Lara Croft games are appealing to more than just the usual horny, teenaged boys. The Final Girl theory emerged in 1985, when Carol Clover — a medievalist and feminist film critic — … Continue reading

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How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days: Tips and Tricks from 4 Grad Students Who Made Over 50 Games in 1 Semester

Gamasutra has a great article on how to enter rapid prototyping mode. Each game was developed by one grad student in under a week. We lay it all out here. Through the following tips, tricks, and examples, we will discuss … Continue reading

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Minesweeper is NP-complete!

This article argues that Minesweeper belongs to the class of NP-Complete problems (see “Complexity Classes P and NP” in Wikipedia to brush up on P and NP). My result in the Mathematical Intelligencer states that a decision problem which I … Continue reading

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101 Free Games: The Best Free Games on the Web from 1UP.com

1UP.com has a nice list of free games you can find on the web, compiled by Computer Gaming World. You don’t care how you get your fix. You just want to play a new game right now and you don’t … Continue reading

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Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman

This is a fantastic and hilarious comic set in the Half-Life universe and rendered using the Half-Life 2 engine along with Garry’s Mod. Concerned is the story of Gordon Frohman, former Black Mesa entry-level employee, survivor of the Portal Storms … Continue reading

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Progress Quest “Fire and Forget” RPG

This is an amusing spoof of all those MMORPGs that have degenerated into little more than the constant need to level up and to farm gold. It eliminates all of that tedious work and lets your character level up without … Continue reading

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Notpron – The Hardest Riddle available on the Internet

This is another web-based riddle, similar in concept to Python Challenge. But, this one doesn’t require any programming. You will, however, need to be proficient at figuring out subtle clues, lateral thinking and searching for information on the web. There … Continue reading

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The DooM Remix Project | The Dark Side of Phobos

This incredible album is a collection of mp3 remixes based on the soundtrack for the original DooM game (not the movie!). Hangarmageddon, Industrial Strength and Mystery Meat are some of my favorites. But Darkness Dawning just blows me away. Wicked … Continue reading

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Project Euler

Here is another programming challenge site. This one is specifically geared towards mathematical problems. You can use any programming language you like. The problems are rated according to how many people have already solved a particular problem. The more people … Continue reading

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Python Challenge

Python Challenge is “the first programming riddle on the net”. There are currently 33 levels, and for each level you need to figure out the clues that lead you to the next level. Usually, you need to do a bit … Continue reading

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Classic Commodore 64 games online!

This site hosts a huge collection of classic Commodore 64 games that you can play directly through your browser. The games require Java to run, and some games work better than others. Link (via Digg)

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