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ultimafase You might think that after two years of non-stop Minecraft maps, mods and artful re-creations of everything from Mario statues to genitalia, nothing that modders do could be that impressive anymore. Well, you be the judge: YouTuber Benny Girard has re-created the entire overworld of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Read More
Jan 24, 2012

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ultimafase Now you can play Skyrim during the SATs. YouTube user no9sniper has developed a version of Bethesda’s popular role-playing game for TI-84 graphing calculators, which he shows off in a brief video (above). Read More
Jan 19, 2012

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ultimafase A Minecraft modder has re-created the seminal introduction of The Simpsons in the blocky indie game. Read More
Sep 27, 2011

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ultimafase A Microsoft Kinect hack lets World of Warcraft players cast spells, fight opponents and maneuver their characters using simple hand gestures and body movements. Using Kinect and an open source framework tool called OpenNI, University of Southern California researcher Evan Suma and his team at the school’s Institute for Creative Technologies hacked together a middleware program [...] Read More
Dec 30, 2010

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ultimafase Thanks to the work of some talented engineers, visitors to NYC’s Brookhaven Lab will be able to play one of the first electronic games as it was originally presented. Brookhaven engineer Willy Higinbotham created Tennis For Two, a rudimentary bouncing-ball demonstration, using an oscilloscope and a Donner Model 30 vacuum tube analog computer in 1958. Read More
Dec 14, 2010

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ultimafase A novel antipiracy measure baked into the Nintendo DS version of Michael Jackson: The Experience makes copied versions of the game unplayable and taunts gamers with the blaring sound of vuvuzelas. Instead of “Beat It,” players get “Bleat It.” The phenomenon was documented by YouTube user ctkxtreme, who posted the video above with the following explanation: “This [...] Read More
Dec 3, 2010

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ultimafase By Mark Brown, Wired UK Remember when Spanish super-brain Hector Martin hacked Kinect, got open source drivers running on PC and scooped up a cash prize for his efforts? Well, the fruits of his labors are already showing, as creators, hackers and developers begin using Kinect for interesting new projects. Read More
Nov 16, 2010

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ultimafase By Mark Brown, Wired UK Enterprising coders are well on their way to reverse-engineering Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral, and have released video evidence of their hard work on the web. Recently, New York-based Adafruit Industries challenged the DIY community to hack and provide open source drivers for Microsoft’s $150 Xbox 360 motion sensor, which it released on November [...] Read More
Nov 8, 2010

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ultimafase Halo: Reach, this year’s biggest Xbox 360 game, has been obtained by hackers and released into the wild, weeks before its official release date. BitTorrent sites like The Pirate Bay currently feature torrents of the game, with hundreds of seeders and leechers downloading away. Read More
Aug 23, 2010

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ultimafase Why bother doing math when you can doodle? That’s the life philosophy that got me through much of 8th grade algebra, and it’s also the driving force behind this amazing tool-assisted playthrough of Brain Age’s math problems. Read More
Jul 9, 2010

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