Sheppard’s Video Game Pie

Batman: Arkham City

"Batman: Arkham City" is a worthy followup to 2009's "Batman: Arhkam Asylum," but not quite the perfect supergame I was hoping for. Full story

Video Games Killed the Radio Star

Rise of Nightmares

In the 90s, there was this game called Legend Quest. You’d gather three friends and stand in a hollowed-out plastic tree stump in a shop window Full story

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Gears of War 3

"Gears 3" plays like a polished "Gears 2," which played like a polished "Gears 1." It's popcorn gaming, but I think that's exactly what they were going for. Full story

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Sailing Drone

After visiting the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in June of 2010, a young engineer decided to develop an open source oil spill cleaning robot, Protei. Full story

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Higher tech for humankind. Full story

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution

I've logged 60 hours on Deus Ex: Human Revolution so far, and I've enjoyed every second Full story

Talking to the Future Humans - Natasha Vita-More

What will sex be like when we're disembodied digital entities floating around the matrix? Full story

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Catherine

Vincent is 32 years old and living in a rut. He’s been going out with his girlfriend, Katherine, for five years, but they still live apart. Full story

Motherboard

Motherboard Meets Evan Glodell

Evan Glodell is pretty good at turning hunks of metal into roaring, fire-breathing machines. Full story

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Resistance 3

In "Resistance 3," 90 percent of humanity is dead, and the survivors are living in squalor underground, evading human-alien hybrid death squads. Full story

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Bodycount

"Bodycount" is an FPS. I am tempted to make the preceding sentence, and the legally-mandated italic paragraph way down at the end of this thing, my whole review. Full story

The Learnin' Corner

Pili Power

Apparently nature knows how to make organic conductors out of proteins, and we find that very surprising. That's why it's kind of a big discovery. Full story

Goodbye to Screens

Screens, videogames. Videogames, screens. They go hand-in-hand like Milo and Otis. But what kind of friendship slavery is this? Free yourself from the technocratic dichotomy at Babycastles, that arcade we've told you a bunch about on Motherboard. Full story

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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is a beautiful little art game with brawler mechanics. Full story