Month: July 2012

Human augmentation is the practice of using technology to improve the human body. It’s a revolutionary science, and we’ve been doing it for hundreds of years. If you wear glasses, wield a smartphone, or take...

Heroes of Newerth is a free-to-play game where players send champion hero characters into to battle against each other over an arena map. The trick is that some characters were always available for anyone to play, while others...

Just by way of comparison, to show you what those numbers mean. Runescape is a primitive, low-graphics MMORPG that has been quietly grinding away in the background behind the big names of the industry. This effort has been...

Star Wars: The Old Republic is a powerful MMORPG by BioWare that takes on Star Wars from an era hundreds of years before Luke and the Empire. It’s also dying slowly. What could bring down a game built on the twin pillars...

There are many people interested in the future of gaming, but Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello is one of the very few among those who can make that future happen. The trick is that the money behind gaming couldn’t care...