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Tag : Gaming & Culture
Enlarge / Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe is at heart a game of fractal structure, per math teacher Ben Orlin, author of Math Games with Bad Drawings. Players must balance two levels, an element that requires them to “Think globally, act locally.” reader comments 13 with 13 posters participating Share this story In 1974, a geneticist named Marsha ..
Enlarge / This is your brain on NFTs. We have a lot of questions. Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 196 with 97 posters participating Share this story Ubisoft’s first experiment with non-fungible tokens (called “Quartz Digits”) in Ghost Recon Breakpoint is already winding down just four months after it started. The short saga ..
reader comments 112 with 55 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Two notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin, one of which contains his iconic 1837 “Tree of Life” sketch, have been safely returned to Cambridge University Library, more than two decades after first being reported missing. Twenty years ago, two small notebooks written by 19th-century ..
reader comments 113 with 68 posters participating Share this story The dizzying alternate Picard timeline on Paramount+ will not be an infinite one. After cast members suggested that the latest Patrick Stewart-led Star Trek series would soon conclude, Paramount made the news official on Tuesday: Picard will end after its third season. As part of ..
Enlarge / That’s the second-biggest surprise I’ve ever seen. Terrible Toybox / Lucasfilm Games reader comments 98 with 69 posters participating Share this story Return to Monkey Island, teased by Ron Gilbert on his official blog last week on April Fools’ Day, has been confirmed as an actual video game that will release in 2022. ..
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reader comments 7 with 7 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Jodie Whittaker’s time as the Thirteenth Doctor winds down with Legend of the Sea Devils, second of three Doctor Who specials in 2022. We’re counting down to another regeneration on Doctor Who, although exactly who will replace Jodie Whittaker to become the Fourteenth Doctor remains ..
reader comments 75 with 49 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Capt. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount, center), Number One (Rebecca Romijn, left), and Spock (Ethan Peck, right) are getting their own prequel spinoff series: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, debuting May 5, 2022, on Paramount+. Interplanetary adventures, political intrigue, and a spot of romance are in ..
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