Tangible holograms
Images you can move with your hands Did you ever watch Minority Report or any MCU movie and drool over the idea of having a computer interface you could reach into and manipulate through touch? Well, researchers at Universidad de Navarra have come up with a...
Wheel of Time
There Are Neither Beginnings or Endings to the Turning of the Wheel of Time. But the show had to begin somewhere... Amazon Prime’s adaptation of the Wheel of Time has been fraught with controversy. For a beloved series older than many of the viewers, changes...
Children of Silentown
…you’ll love this mysterious village Stay quiet. Do as you’re told. DON’T go into the forest. These are the rules for the Children of Silentown. In many ways, this sleepy village feels like the spot for an idyllic childhood. There are other kids to play with and...
Tech-enhanced instruments
You don’t need a music teacher to get started When Guitar Hero came out in 2005, a lot of players caught flack for playing plastic guitars instead of learning to play a real one (note: this never seemed to apply to Counterstrike, F1 Manager, or Madden...
Resident Alien
He came in peace to leave us in pieces. Still a better doctor than the town had before. In Resident Alien, Alan Tudyk crashes on Earth and needs a device lost from his wrecked spaceship to complete his mission: wiping out life on Earth. Of course, Alan Tudyk...
Solar Storm
The Ship is Falling Apart. Can You Escape? It's a race against time with an hourglass full of broken parts. Evacuating a starship is a common enough trope in sci-fi that it really needs no additional explanation as a game premise. In Solar Storm, you and your fellow...
Phantom Chess
For the modern enthusiast with old world style. First They Had Chessboards, Then Computers, Now This. Chess is among the oldest games on Earth, and one of few that’s still played regularly (alongside Go, notably). Traditionally, chess is played on a surface marked...
Onward – An Epic Road Trip to Self Discovery
I’m going to state right from the start, until the story itself told me otherwise, I had thought the main characters were trolls. That out of the way, let’s talk about Pixar’s 2020 movie, Onward. We’re treated to a delightful bit of backstory about how...
Sleeping Gods Distant Skies
A game of decisions and destiny The original Sleeping Gods is a cooperative tabletop RPG with a storybook feel and an actual book of story quests to navigate. Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies, follows up an indeterminate time (in fiction) later with a...
Nanoleaf
Lighting the way you want it I think most of us have had the experience of moving into your first apartment. Underfurnished. Underlit. Figuring out which lightswitch controls the one socket where you plugged in a torchiere lamp you picked up from a box store. It felt...