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What are you doing on Thursday evening? If you're in New York City or the surrounding area, consider going to Cosmic Cocktails and Space Arcade, an event at the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space. More »
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The kids at Outerra aren't out to do much. Only create a game engine that can create entire planets for you to mess around in. More »
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The six brave non-adventurers of the Mars500 project yesterday emerged from their capsule for the first time in 18 months, finding they had returned to a dystopic Earth where their Guitar Hero skills were utterly useless. More »
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The folks behind Burn Zombie Burn are working on a new space shooter that features a transforming fighter designed by the man behind the mechs of Appleseed: Ex Machina and Steel Battalion. More »
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Revise Red Faction. Update Doom. Go back to the drawing board with that Total Recall remake (actually, please just stop making that). NASA announced today that they may have possible evidence of flowing water on Mars. More »
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Regarding life in space, everyone has three questions: How do you poop, has anyone screwed, and can you play video games up there. Alright, maybe the first two are more commonly asked, but we have an answer to the third question now. More »
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Reader Sean is moving into "an industrial-style condo" in the coming weeks, and felt like tailoring his home decor to match. So he's built himself a Portal 2-themed end table Cave Johnson himself would be happy to hurl lemons at. More »
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Eve Online is a game made famous by many things: Its passionate followers, its epic space wars, its impact on the economy of the real Iceland and its wondrous glimpses of outer space in a game. More »
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Kotaku commenter Jezuz feels that games set in outer space have become too cold and sterile. He shares his idea on how to liven up the airless void in today's Speak-Up on Kotaku. More »
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Astronomers are abuzz over what could be our very first glimpse of a planet being born in the dust surrounding a young star some 350 light-years away from the earth, but don't start passing out cigars just yet. More »
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EVE Online recently introduced an amazing new character customization tool that has the game's players seeing virtual stars at every turn. Space Conan O'Brien heads up our star-studded gallery. More »
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Kinect needs a lot of room, more room than any video game control device before it. But where there's a will to move furniture or rotate TVs, there is a way. This is how we made room in two homes. More »
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The deadly Sansha's Nation aims to create its own utopia, taking down any pilots who get in its way in EVE Online: Incursion, the latest expansion for CCP's outer space MMO, due out in November. More »
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Star Wars: Requiem, a mod of 2008 PC game Sins of a Solar Empire that just received another update, is what a Star Wars space real-time strategy game should look and play like. More »
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Meet Robonaut 2, the most dexterous humanoid robot in existence, soon to be the first humanoid robot in space, and you'll be able to hear all about it through his Twitter account. More »
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Richard Garriott, space tourist, rat tail enthusiast, and creator of Ultima and Tabula Rasa (RIP), may also be the first private citizen to have a legitimate claim to ownership of a good portion of the moon. More »
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Armadillo Aerospace - the company founded and owned by id boss and Doom co-creator John Carmack - has a good chance of winning itself $1,000,000 after taking an early lead in NASA's lunar lander challenge. More »
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With more than a quarter of a million beta sign ups in North America and Europe, Net Devil's space combat MMO Jumpgate Evolution is the biggest beta campaign More »
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Paramount Digital Entertainment officially announced Star Trek D-A-C for the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and PC today, delivering new screenshots of the movie-themed space shooter to the masses. More »
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Cryptic has released four new screenshots for Star Trek Online, a couple of which actually show off some of the more intimate locations you'll be able to explore. More »
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The trailer for the upcoming Apocrypha expansion to CCP's massively-multiplayer space opera Eve Online manages to make the game look at least 10 times better than it actually plays. More »
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Gaming legend Richard "Lord British" Garriott's trip into space has come and gone, leaving the Ultima creator nothing but fond memories and stories, which he'll share live on stage in Austin Texas later this month. More »
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Lord British may have reached for the stars - and given us a cryptic message in space runes - but to do so he had to splurge millions of his hard earned Gold and train for months with Russian cosmonauts. If another Gaming Legend has his way, however, taking in the view from orbit might become a little easier - if slightly crazier looking. More »
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Cryptic Studios' latest installment of Ask Cryptic on the Star Trek Online website neatly puts to rest one of my biggest worries about the game - how space combat is handled. I've spent far too many years battling starships both in video game and miniatures game form to have the experience reduced to a simple point and click affair. More »
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You know, they say sometimes people go CRAZY on these long trips. They get the, eh... SPACE MADNESS. Not plucky Lord British, though. No, the good lord is safe in his heaven and has found the time to transmit a coded message of hope to us earth-bound types. The multisquillionaire held up a card containing the message shortly after reaching orbit - the message is encoded in Logos Elements - the fictional runic system used in Garriott's game Tabula Rasa. Fans of the game have now decoded the runes and found it to be a quote - hit the jump to see what Lord British thinks we ought to know. More »
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Game designer Richard "Lord British" Garriott and his "immortality drive" — containing Crecente's genetic material — is officially in orbit now. Sorry I missed this earlier, but Garriott rode the candle out of Baikonur early Sunday, and his Soyuz craft will dock with the International Space Station on Tuesday to begin a 10-day span of experiments. More »
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Wired has a nice feature up on Ultima Richard Garriott and his cosmonaut training in Russia's Star City. Written by Masters of Doom author David Krushner, here's a sample: More »
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I've been craving a decent space MMO (that doesn't put me to sleep - sorry EVE) ever since the demise of EA's Bed Earth & Beyond, and right now all of my hopes rest on Codemasters and Netdevil's Jumpgate Evolution. A brand-new community website for the game has launched recently, and along with it comes the chance to sign-up to be a Jumpgate Evolution beta tester. Play a part in shaping the universe, help the team iron out bugs and balance the combat, and gain the ability to brag about playing the game in every Jumpgate post we put up from here to launch. More »
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The latest expansion to CCP Games' deep space MMO EVE Online has just gone live, bringing space-miners, space-moguls, and space-fighters alike into the Empyrean Age. The expansion focuses on two of the most important aspects of any MMO, storyline and PVP, introducing factional warfare, a system of militia ranks, system occupancy, combat zones, and factional warfare bases for players to capture and control. Each of the factions now has a corporation open to all pilots to help coordinate war efforts. More »
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Will Wright is speaking at NASA's upcoming Yuri's Night Celebration in the Bay Area this Saturday. More »
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Ultima and Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott loves two things: Space and rattails. Man not only has his own sputnik, but his own rattails. This October, Garriott and his flowing locks will be blasting off to the International Space Station. He plans on making a spacewalk, which would make him the first civilian with rattails to do so. Historic! To commemorate the event, Seiko is creating a titanium spring-powered "Spring Drive Spacewalk" watch, which will be limited to 99 pieces only — at a price! But really, can you put a price tag on a Richard Garriott watch? Yes, yes you can. More »
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NASA doesn't just explore space, it also exploring video gaming! NASA is shifting though proposals from companies keen on creating a MMO that will let students create phony experiments and test out different NASA careers. Says NASA: More »
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Game designer Richard Garriott blogs about his weightless experience with Professor Stephen Hawking: More »
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Yesterday famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking joined game developer Richard Garriott for a ride into the edge of space. More »
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Richard Garriott and Stephen Hawking are teaming up, unfortunately, it's not for a game. More »
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As far as geek gods go, John Carmack is right up there. Not only has he programmed games like DOOM and Quake, but he's also into engineering rockets. Real rockets. So when NASA announced that it will be developing a 3 million dollar MMO for the youth, game site GigaGamez sent Carmack an email. His response? More »
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Sword of the Stars, by most accounts, was a rather forgettable space strategy game with a gorgeous look to it and some of the most obnoxious, petulant twerps as developers this side of Derek Smart. More »
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Eve Online is a game I desperately want to love: an MMOG that doesn't involve playing a bearded midget dressed only in his Underoos. I gave the two week trial a shot: I loved the imagination behind the universe and my Shodan-like ship A.I. But after the initial novelty wore off, I realized that most of my time was playing Eve Online was actually spent in another room entirely, reading a book. I guess that's swell for multitaskers, but I like games that actually require me to be around to play them. More »
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