3D chess

There's no reason why a chessboard should have to be flat. Still all are, except for this one:



View more cool chess sets on coolmateral.com

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Racing game combined with R/C car

Malte Jehmlich has built an arcade game where you control a car. But the car is a real R/C car equipped with a camera running on a cardboard track.



Read more about the project here

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Pixels

A short documentary about pixel art. Interesting that our memory of old games have been altered by playing them in emulators on a big computer screen.

Houses built like gaming consoles

Unfortunately these houses doesn't exist but it's a cool thought.







View high-res images on amusement.fr

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New teaser video for the LIMBO game

I'm not much of a gamer but one game that i've been waiting for since 2006 is called LIMBO. It's an extreamly beautiful black-and-white platform game.



Can't wait until this game is released.

Visit the new LIMBO website

Continuity

This is by far the best game I've played in months. It's a normal get-the-key-and-go-to-the-door-platform game but with a twist. You need to think outside the box and rearrange tiles of the world in order to be able to make it to the keys and doors.



The game has 32 levels and is made by Elias Holmlid, Dmitri Kurteanu, Guy Lima Jr., and Stefan Mikaelsson from Sweden.

Play the game!

Smart PacMan ring design

Rachel Pfeffer has made this genius PacMan ring design. It's made from Sterling Silver and Black Onyx. This geeky set of rings is yours for $106.

Get more info and/or buy!

Impressionistic Arcade Games

Brock Davis has made impressionism versions of some classic arcade games.


Donkey Kong


Dig Dug


Missile Command

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Bighead Halloween Costume

Eric Testroete made an awesome halloween costume inspired by the big-head mode seen in some games.






Visit Eric's site with more pictures

A mouse playing Quake

To study neurological activity i moving animals, scientist are using the open source Quake II engine.

Tank’s team designed an apparatus in which a mouse, its head firmly held in a metal helmet, walks on the surface of a styrofoam ball. The ball is kept aloft by a jet of air, so that it functions like a multidirectional treadmill. Around it are sensors taken from optical computer mice, which read the ball’s movement as the mouse runs.

Read the article

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Machinarium - Behind the scenes

Machinarium is a new upcoming game from Amanita Design, the creators of the legendary point-n-click-game Samorost.

BoingBoing has a great blogpost filled with high-res sketches from the creative process behind the game.









Machinarium will be released on Friday.

BoingBoing: Everything but the game

The official website for the game

Canabalt - innovative platform game

Canabalt is a cool action game for iPhone that combines simple pixel elements with vector graphics. The game only has one button that makes the character jump and the objective of the game is to get as far as possible. The speed makes the game look really great even though it's very simple.



You can buy Canabalt for your iPhone/iPod touch in AppStore but you can also play it for free in your browser:

Play the game now!

Windosill - Arty Point 'n Click Game

Windosill is a very arty game where your mission is to open doors and make a cute toy train move from room to room. Unfortunately, only the first halv of this game is free, if you wan't all levels you'll have to pay $3.



Play the game!