Tag: Games - Page 2
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New App Lets iPad Users Play With Real Live Pigs
Finally, an app for interspecies entertainment that playfully pits iPad users against real-life pigs, who might otherwise only meet one another on a plate.
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Game Strap Makes Long, Uncomfortable Train Commutes More Entertaining
For times when you have to stand for a long commute on Muni, this design might take your mind off the time.
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One Day, Video Games Will Beat Climate Change
Can good game design inspire real-world behavior change? Critics are increasingly arguing that they can.
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Oregon Trail-Style Video Game Would Expose Climate Deniers
Would you play an Oregon Trail-modeled video game designed to expose big polluters and climate denial? Why yes, yes you would.
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Hacking Minecraft to Include Carbon Emissions
Every time you light a fire in Minecraft, or plant a tree, this hack will tell you your carbon footprint.
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iPhone Game Tests Your Endangered Animal Knowledge and Your Speed
Keeping up with the clock is as much fun as learning about animal species in this iPhone game called Survival.
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Green Gift Guide: The Kid
How about designer baby clothes you can rent, an updated Easy-Bake Oven, a designer rocking horse, or a lip gloss kit?
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Green Game: Play "Lifeboat" and See What Floats
In the future, what ideas will stick and which will sink? Follow Caspian as he scouts out ways to address our most pressing issues for a sustainable future in this alternative reality
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The Trash Tycoon Facebook Game Launches Today!
Today, September 6th, Trash Tycoon officially launches! It's been a long, hard, fun road getting to this point, and we owe a special thanks to all the beta testers who have been playing and submitting bugs and comments on the forums.
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Facebook Game Hopes To Save Gorillas
While Facebook games are generally more known for wasting your time than helping to save the world, My Conservation Park aims to help the well-intentioned "play it forward" by funding real-world conservation efforts based on
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Silverback Gorilla Takes Close-Up Video of Himself With Toy Camera (Video)
To keep animals entertained at zoos and wildlife parks (something very important for their mental health), zookeepers often come up with rather ingenious toys that entertain both the animals and people. That's what's
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Let's Play Ethica, the Ethical Monopoly Game
Unlike Monopoly, where the goal is to buy more and more houses, hotels and entire streets, in Ethica, the best family and best bank wins. The best are those groups who obtain the most points in 3 sectors: the financial, social and environmental one.
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CityVille Passes FarmVille as Facebook's Most Popular Game
We had high hopes that a ridiculously popular game like FarmVille might get players to build real life gardens, or care more about where their food really comes from. However, it looks like most Facebook players are
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New Elements of War Video Game Uses Weather As Weaponry
What happens when the government's attempts at controlling weather go horribly awry and cause havoc in global weather systems? Why...weather warfare, of course! It's the premise of a new game in which armies use weather
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New Report Judges Video Game Consoles on Energy Consumption; Wii Comes Out on Top
If you're looking into getting a new video game console this holiday season, here's one more criterion to take into consideration: energy consumption. The Electric Power Research Institute this week
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"Fate of the World" Shifts Gamers' Focus Toward Battling Climate Change
The mix of annihilation of the human race with solving problems against a whirring clock are key ingredients for a compelling video game. Rather than playing at war or bashing automobiles into brick walls, Fate of the World
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Can a Facebook Game Really Boost Recycling?
Greenopolis is a company that started up a way for people to earn rewards as they recycle. By taking cans and bottles to a recycling kiosk and scanning them as they deposit them, the recyclers can earn points redeemable for
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What is, "TreeHugger Is On Jeopardy," Alex.
If you were watching Jeopardy last night, you might have had a particularly fun surprise when a contestant asked for Blogs & Bloggers for $400. Gawker was all excited about their inclusion in the show as the $1,600 question, and
