Iconoculture: Despite widespread acceptance, Harry Potter and Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards still aren’t welcome in some Christian homes. The Bible Trading Card Game offers an alternative, replete with 240 cards bearing biblical figures, locations and verses that kids memorize to score points. The edutainment game tutors kids in the scriptures and faith (play begins with prayer) and encourages Sunday school attendance: […]

Engadet: Besides learning to use the toilet properly, the ability to ride a bicycle is one of the most important early-childhood accomplishments, but unfortunately, the current use of training wheels for practice does little to prepare kids for life on two wheels. Well a start-up using technology developed at Dartmouth College is aiming to eliminate the rolling crutches that are […]

Entrepreneur: Beasley is the creator of table golf, a new game that combines golf and billiards into one. Beasley dreamed up the game in 1999 while serving a sentence. As he watched a golf tournament get rained out on TV, he wondered what golfers did on rainy days. Armed with his idea and some crude blueprints he had drawn, Beasley […]

SFGate.com: For an attempted assassination, there sure was a lot of giggling going on. “I’m going to feel pretty good about shooting someone, if I don’t die first,” said would-be assassin Nicole Califano, who was drinking a beer, which was not helping to steady her trigger finger any. Califano is one of 130 contestants armed with water pistols who are […]

we make money not art: Online gamers who lack the time and patience to work their way up to the higher levels of gamedom are willing to pay the young Chinese to play the early rounds for them. These “gold farmers” work every day, in 12-hour shifts, playing computer games to harvest gold coins and other virtual goods that can […]

U.S. Newswire: The sports medicine experts at ArmorSports believe there’s plenty of truth to the old adage, “The best defense is a good offense.” Their product, AirArmor is the first on the market designed for players to wear before they are injured to prevent damage to the knee and leg. The FDA has classified AirArmor as a Class 1 medical […]

we make money not art: Through the looking glass is a system that allows a person to play a game with her/himself in a mirror. A full-body-action pong game can be played with the current installation, which provides the excitement of wining and losing at the same time, against oneself. Lumisty Film, which is used as the material for the […]

NYTimes.com: Far from the bloody streets of “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas,” and light years from the deep space, run-and-gun menace of “Halo 2,” lives Flo. She is the cartoon-cute stockbroker who chucked it all to operate a modest diner that is the centerpiece of a highly successful yet relatively low-budget video game called “Diner Dash.” The staff of GameLab […]

Entrepreneur.com: Playing games is an important part of every childhood–but for sisters Callie and Pam Weiant, the homemade game their mother created for them as children inspired them to become entrepreneurs. The game had been popular in the Weiant family for years, and the sisters always thought it would make a great keepsake for other families as well. In 2003, […]

New Scientist: The classic arcade game PacMan has resurfaced on the streets of Singapore using “augmented reality” technology developed by military-backed scientists at the University of Singapore. While virtual reality immerses a user completely inside a computer-generated environment, augmented reality combines both real and virtual sensory information to produce a digitally-altered version of the real world. The original arcade game, […]