Recent content by John Markley

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    Bleed 2 Review - Side Scrolling Shooty Goodness

    Bleed 2 Review - Side Scrolling Shooty Goodness Bleed 2 really is the 2D retro pixel art answer to games like Vanquish or Metal Gear Rising. Read Full Article
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    The Apparent Anti-Intellectualism of Gamer Culture

    If Kill Screen were treating games "like art," they wouldn't be capping off their exploration of a game's deep themes by giving it a numerical rating on a scale of 1 to 100. ("Hamlet: Compelling meditation on mortality and obsession, marred by patriarchal assumptions and boring Fortinbras...
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    5 Ways Reusable Rockets Will Carry Us to the Stars

    Bloody hell, I mixed up the price per ounce and per pound! Thanks for catching that.
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    5 Ways Reusable Rockets Will Carry Us to the Stars

    5 Ways Reusable Rockets Will Carry Us to the Stars Launching people and payloads into space is incredibly expensive, but reusable rockets may quickly beginning cutting down those costs. How will low-cost space launches change our world? Read Full Article
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    Layers of Fear Masters Atmosfear, Falls Short on Substance

    Yeah, I thought the game had a strong atmosphere and some pretty scary parts but was a little too light on explanation. There is such a thing as leaving too MUCH to the imagination. I will give the devs props for actually making a game MORE creepily obsessed with babies than Metroid: Other M...
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    8 Fan Films That Should Become Full Movies

    I've seen that TIE Fighter video a bunch of times now, still blows me away.
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    Steam Introduces Dynamically Priced Bundles

    This seems like a promising idea.
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    Life In Bunker Review - Deep Underground, But Still Too Shallow

    Life In Bunker Review - Deep Underground, But Still Too Shallow Life in Bunker is a somewhat interesting strategy game that unfortunately turns out to be shallower than it first appears. Read Full Article
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    5 Ways Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Change The World - And Us

    Oh, absolutely. Some of the mind-reading technology being worked on now works that way- it scans motor nerves involved in the production of speech, since it turns out that just thinking words can cause activity there.
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    5 Ways Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Change The World - And Us

    5 Ways Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Change The World - And Us Current experiments with brain-computer interfaces have allowed an amputee to "feel" with his prosthetic hand - what other wonders will we achieve with this technology? Read Full Article
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    Want To Reach Mars? New Tech Could Make The Trip In Three Days

    Excellent question. There actually might be a ways to use the laser back at earth to slow down the ship, surprisingly- when you're ready to decelerate you detach part of your sail (or deploy another), ahead ahead of the ship. Then you reflect light off the second sail- no longer attached to the...
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    The Escapist is Celebrating 30 Years of The Legend of Zelda - Update

    A Link to the Past all the way for me!
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    5 Uses for the Astonishing Power of 2D Materials

    Thank you very much ^_^
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    7 Lesser-Known Superhero Movies

    I actually kind of liked The Shadow... though I won't claim to have the most discriminating taste.
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    5 Uses for the Astonishing Power of 2D Materials

    5 Uses for the Astonishing Power of 2D Materials 2D materials like graphene are all the rage lately - but what practical use do we have for these ultra-thin materials? Read Full Article