The trick to breaking spaghetti in half is to bend and twist, new MIT study says. (credit: Tom Smith / EyeEm: Getty Images) Pasta purists insist on plonking dry spaghetti into the boiling pot whole, but should you rebel against convention and try to break the strands in half, you’ll probably end up with a ..
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That Steam logo is the only outward sign that this is a Steam Machine and not an Alienware Alpha. Valve appears to be working on a set of “compatibility tools,” called Steam Play, that would allow at least some Windows-based titles to run on Linux-based SteamOS systems. Yesterday, Reddit users noticed that Steam’s GUI files ..
Enlarge / My DEF CON badge, complete with Wall of Sheep add-on from the DC801 crew, built by @kL34N and @SirGed. My puzzle quest is far from complete—it may require reprogramming and flipping a component. (credit: Sean Gallagher) Nearly 30,000 people came to Las Vegas last week for the 26th edition of DEF CON, the ..
Enlarge / Don’t expect to see this action on PS4 unless Sony starts changing its tune on cross-platform play… Across multiple years and multiple franchises, Sony has uniformly prevented PS4 games from playing nicely online with versions of the same game on other consoles. Now, Bethesda is warning that such cross-platform support is “non-negotiable” for ..
The trailer for General Magic The story of General Magic, which is chronicled in a new documentary named after this early ’90s Silicon Valley company, has become both a legendary and cautionary tale. Back at a 1989 Aspen Institute event, future founder and CEO Marc Porat essentially unveiled an idea for a smartphone prototype. He ..
Enlarge / Who’s a hungry frog? (credit: Gnog) Gnog doesn’t ask much of its players. The pastel puzzler is easy on the eyes and easy on the pocketbook. It doesn’t last long, either. You can knock the whole thing out in a couple of hours or less. Its puzzles consistently capture the satisfaction of fitting ..
Late summer is the time for barbecues, concerts in the park, and (most importantly) making the trek to downtown Indianapolis to play tabletop games with 60,000 other board game fanatics for four days straight. Gen Con—the biggest tabletop gaming convention in North America—is now in its 51st year, and it’s not slowing down. According to ..
id Software Friday’s QuakeCon keynote included a 15-minute Doom Eternal gameplay premiere, showing off the idTech7 engine in action for the first time. As predicted after its E3 tease, this sequel will follow Doom II‘s lead from 1994 and bring the new series’ demons and terrors of Hell to Earth. The gameplay sequence confirms that ..
Enlarge / Who says mobile players are at a disadvantage? (credit: Reddit / legocraftmation) A decent part of Fortnite‘s meteoric success has been the capability for players on non-Sony platforms to play the game with friends regardless of what console, mobile phone, or PC everyone is using. One side effect of that system, though, is ..
Enlarge / This use of the swastika, barred in German games since 1998, will now generally be allowed under an “artistic” exception. A decades-old German practice barring the sale of video games that show swastikas and other Nazi Party symbols has been reconsidered by the country’s ratings board, putting the medium on equal footing with ..
