Month: August 2012

Perfect World is a name you might have heard. Chance are, you play one of their games. This Chinese company has been making inroads into the western gaming market through a strategy of free-to-play games backed by an unending...

The ancient art of cleaning money is coming to the digital age, at least if a report from the financial watchdog AUSTRAC is to be believed. Virtual worlds and MMOs offer criminals an opportunity to convert their dirty money into...

Sony’s latest portable game system, the PlayStation Vita, has launched to a rough start. Sales of the device are slow, and the Nintendo 3DS is eating the market alive. While Sony engineers are working to drop the hardware...

Just in case you were holding off from the latest Humble Android Bundle because you don’t have one of those smartphone things the kids are all into, word up, gramps. This bundle also comes with PC, Mac, and Linux versions...

Because reality wasn’t surreal enough for the folks at Disney, they decided to turn houseplants into computer interfaces. The tech is called Botanicus Interacticus, and it uses an electrode in the soil to detect touch...