Kotaku: Minesweeper

Wait, People Play Competitive Minesweeper?

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:00:00 EDT

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To you, Minesweeper may be a casual gaming relic, but to a small band of hardcore fans, it's a competitive scene as hotly-contested as any Call of Duty or StarCraft leaderboard. More »

Can Games "Hook" You Like Movies Can?

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:30:00 EST

In movies, there's a simple rule: if you haven't hooked the audience by the time the film's ten minutes in, you've lost them. But how can this work for video games? More »

In This Life-Saving Minesweeper Game, The Mines Are Real

Mike Fahey — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:20:00 EDT

Every year upwards of 20,000 lives are lost in war-torn countries due to unexploded ordinance such as land mines. Can a video game educate children about land mine avoidance where traditional methods have failed? More »

Minesweeper Becoming An Adventure Game

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:30:00 EST

Charles Cecil, the brains behind adventure game classics Beneath A Steel Sky and Broken Sword, is working with charity developer OneBigGame on an all-new project: turning Minesweeper into - what else - an adventure game. More »

Minesweeper: The Movie

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:20:57 EDT

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Mario Infecting Computers

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:00:50 EDT

Computer worm capitalizing on retro gaming and Nintendo's resurrection? Believe. Computers are getting infected via a Super Mario Bros. game attachment. Folks that click on it will infect their computers with the Romario-A worm, which spreads by sending itself to email address on the infected computer, forges the infected computer's email and reduces system security. Other examples of malware packages masking as games include the Gonori-A Trojan with tantalizes with Minesweeper. Okay, I can see accidently downloading Super Mario Bros., but Minesweeper? Talk about deserving it. More »

Six Feet Of Minesweeper

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:50:20 EST

What do you get when you take 38,240 PixelBlocks, excessive amounts of free time, and a love of built-in Windows time wasters? A six foot tall recreation of Minesweeper! You're looking at dozens of hours of work and over $900 worth of colored pegs. Michael McWhertor More »