Developer Survios is teaming up with 20th Century Fox to create a new single-player, action-horror game based on the Alien franchise. Details on the new venture – currently being referred to as “Aliens” – are pretty scarce right now, with Survios only saying it’ll feature an original storyline set somewhere between the events of Alien…
Beat family game night boredom with the Rolling Seeds connected tabletop game platform. This beautifully designed product uses Bluetooth/ NFC tech, engaging players of all ages with digital games that transform into physical ones. Are your kids unenthused about besting you at Scrabble? Maybe your parents have played Monopoly one too many times. If your…
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Home Assistant Amber is a smart home hub for the free, open source home automation platform. | Nabu Casa Home Assistant, the powerful-yet-prickly smart home automation platform, is finally moving toward the mainstream. Nabu Casa, the company behind the free, open-source software, has launched Home Assistant Yellow, its first ready-to-use hub that can run Home…
Coin Crew Games I’ve been in the mood for a good puzzle game. No, that’s not accurate enough. If a good puzzle game came to my door and proposed marriage, I would blow up my life and career for it the same way that journalist did for that pharma bro. (But I’d at least have…
Enlarge / Xanadu’s quantum chip. (credit: Xanadu) Last month, physicists at Toronto-based startup Xanadu published a curious experiment in Nature in which they generated seemingly random numbers. During the pandemic, they built a tabletop machine named Borealis, consisting of lasers, mirrors, and over a kilometer of optical fiber. Within Borealis, 216 beams of infrared light…
Octa-glove has suckers and sensors. Virginia Tech An octopus’s sucker-loaded arm is handy for a multitude of things, especially for a creature with no fingers or opposable thumbs. These arms, which also contain their own mini-nervous systems, allow the cephalopod to quickly grasp and release objects both above and in water. Researchers at Virginia Tech…
Today, Sony introduced a new loyalty program called PlayStation Stars that will give gamers loyalty points and rewards. The program is free to join and launches later this year, the company announced. PlayStation Stars members can redeem points for PSN wallet funds, the payment method for game purchases and select PlayStation Store items. With the…