500 rare Apple II programs and games are now preserved online at the Internet Archive
In an industry that constantly lusts toward the future, the Internet Archive has once again helped retain tech’s past by announcing that it has...
If you have $50K to blow, this very real virtual racing game will blow your mind
It’s getting hard to distinguish between virtual reality, augmented reality, and plain old reality. And the distinctions are not getting any easier with California-based...
GamesBeat’s 2015 ‘Naughty and Nice’ alternative holiday gift guide
It’s officially that time of year, when you start pulling out your own hair (or someone else’s, if it’s handy) and braving mobs of...
Silicon Valley insiders’ favorite board game ‘Settlers of Catan’ to be turned into a movie
Hold on to your sheep and wood -- the German board game that has become an obsession among Silicon Valley insiders is going to be turned into a movie.
A card game called Exploding Kittens just made Kickstarter history
A card game about exploding kittens has officially become one of the most successful crowdsourced projects in Internet history with over 200,000 fans and just over $8 million pledged.
5 moderately disturbing ways to experience the weirdness of the holidays online
We present five moderately disturbing holiday items to suit your mood. Why? Because all of these people sent us last-minute PR pitches yesterday that warmed our chilly hearts.
Valve’s Gabe Newell invests in the next hot thing: your dinner, via cooking startup ChefSteps
Valve's founder funds a cooking company focused on the long term.
Four things I learned about French geek culture at the Toulouse Game Show
TOULOUSE, France — Last week, a friend suggested I check out the 8th annual Toulouse Game Show, a convention for comics, video games and web-based dramatic series. A much larger version of this, the Paris Games Week, focuses a bit more on video games.
MIT's Game Lab's OpenRelativity engine messes with the speed of light
MIT is offering up its engine that helps developers mess with the speed of light. It's as trippy and mind-bending as it sounds.
Valve engineer builds a sweet hybrid rocket engine (video)
Sometimes you just build a rocket in your spare time. Or at least that’s what you do if you’re Valve hardware hacker Ben Krasnow.