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Getting Lucky: Hard-Core Gamers Penetrate Peggle's PhysicsWhen you play the game Peggle, do you think everything is left up to luck, or skill? As it turns out, the answer to this question might say a lot about the nature of gamers -- and what makes someone a casual or hard-core player. In case you haven't heard of Peggle, it's a title th... |
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How Perverse Incentives Drive Bad Security DecisionsAn employee of Whole Foods in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was fired in 2007 for apprehending a shoplifter. More specifically, he was fired for touching a customer, even though that customer had a backpack filled with stolen groceries and was running away with them. I regularly see security decisio... |
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Games Without Frontiers: 'Flower' Power Blooms in First Climate-Change GameSpoiler alert: There are many, many very big spoilers for the videogame Flower in this column. Don't read it if you haven't played it all the way through. Or unless you — y'know — want to have it spoiled for you! Your life; your call. What the hell is Flower about? Peo... |
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Games Without Frontiers: Why We Need More Torture in VideogamesTo play World of Warcraft now, you've got to be a torturer. In the recent expansion pack Wrath of the Lich King, there's a quest called "The Art of Persuasion" that requires you to extract information from a tied-up sorcerer. You do this by stinging him repeatedly with a creepy... |
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Games Without Frontiers: Why We Need More Torture in VideogamesTo play World of Warcraft now, you've got to be a torturer. In the recent expansion pack Wrath of the Lich King, there's a quest called "The Art of Persuasion" that requires you to extract information from a tied-up sorcerer. You do this by stinging him repeatedly with a creepy... |
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America's Next Top Hash Function BeginsYou might not have realized it, but the next great battle of cryptography began this month. It's not a political battle over export laws or key escrow or NSA eavesdropping, but an academic battle over who gets to be the creator of the next hash standard. Hash functions are the most commonly us... |
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