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Four months ago, EA Sports opened up applications for a four-month fellowship meant to invite former college athletes into video game design careers. Today, the label awarded its first two, to graduates who played football at Colorado State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More »
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A group of researchers from MIT have developed a new version of the parallax barrier technology used by Nintendo to give the 3DS its signature 3D visuals. The new version of the screen, called HR3D ("High Rank 3D"), can produce the same glasses-free 3D images as the 3DS, but does so while generating a brighter image and using less battery power. HR3D uses two layered screens to produce 3D, just like the 3DS. More »
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Poring over the data, sifting through more than 1,700 specimens, a team of MIT researchers is, as we speak, cataloging the species known as the sports gamer. The data is, so far, unsurprising. More »
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GAMBIT, the video games research center at MIT, is investigating racism and hate speech in online multiplayer gaming. The results are not particularly surprising, but I'll confess to a morbid curiosity as to what a gamer would hear playing Halo: Reach under the gamertag PROUD_2B_MUSLIM, GayPride90 or Black_N_Proud90. It, and the language in this video, is decisively NSFW. More »
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The games development research lab GAMBIT, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has launched a study of sports video gamers, one a researcher believes will be the first comprehensive, independent examination of a very large video game segment, but one often seen as an outlier to the wider culture. More »
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The tech behind the Xbox 360's new camera controller, Kinect, is now being used for an impressive—most impressive—new feat: to capture 3D images, stream them over the internet and display them in holographic form. More »
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One of the core functions of a computer processor is to perform the basic arithmetical functions of the system. Why would we want a processor that gets those basic calculations wrong? Carnegie Mellon's Joseph Bates has the answer. More »
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A robot playing video games at the MIT Media Lab... sans a savory treat. As seen on Blackaller's Twitpic. More »
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I'm still on a semi-enforced vacation from academia, but I couldn't resist reading some of the essays found on electronic book review. The essays are a selection from two MIT Press books, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game and Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media. There are a bunch of interesting essays (and some not-so-interesting ones, I'm sure), on topics ranging from IF to WoW to more general ruminations on narrative, stories, gaming in general: More »
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The first class in the United States that revolves around the Cell Broadband Engine (the microprocessor that lives in those PS3s) has finished the semester with postive results. MIT and IBM teamed up this year to introduce students to programming with the processor: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=259401&view=rss&microfeed=true The first-ever class on the Playstation 3's Cell Broaband Engine has just wrapped up over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More »
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In celebration of the Wii, some clever MIT "hackers" have mounted a Tri-Force of Power on the top of the Great Dome on campus. However, these are probably not the kind of hacks you are thinking of. As the MIT admissions web page puts it: More »
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Straight from the Early Morning Bummer Department, we're sad to report that Alan Kotok — the MIT visionary who helped create both the first video game, the first joystick and the first implementation of multiplayer — is dead. More »
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Okay, in Academia a prank can't be just a prank. At MIT a prank isn't just a prank - it's a hack. This most recent hack turned a hall in MIT into a Super Mario Bros. level. Instead of what I, and many others may think of as a "hack" (involving computers, viruses and anger), the hack at MIT involved a lot of time, energy, construction paper and sleep deprivation. I have to admit though, I do like what they've done with the place. More »
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