Kentucky Route Zero: entrancingly simple, engrossingly atmospheric
Sheehan Hannan, A&E Editor
February 22, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Games & Comics
Developer: Cardboard Computer Platform: Windows, Mac. Price: $7 (Act I), $25 (Act I-V) Some games fit nicely into square little boxes. They’re easy to describe, even easier to grasp, and disappear from the mind just as quickly as they come. There’s no mystery, nothing compelling that sticks... Read more »
App of the Week: Temple Run 2
Sheehan Hannan, Arts & Entertainment Editor
January 28, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Games & Comics
Publisher: Imangi Studios Platform: iOS, Android, Amazone App Store Price: Free When it was initially released, the first Temple Run was an instant success, racking up 170 million downloads. It was something of a mainstream hit, with easily accessible gameplay that, after several tries, proved... Read more »
The Walking Dead: Award-winning and Gut-wrenching
Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter
December 15, 2012
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Games & Comics, This Week
I'll say right now that The Walking Dead is not a game for everyone. Based on the comic books of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Telltale Studio's The Walking Dead is one of the most striking video games of this year. Its story is unapologetically adult and harrowing beyond belief. The game comes at... Read more »
IBM’s Watson Supercomputer Coming to Lerner College of Medicine
Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter
November 16, 2012
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Features, Games & Comics, Local Events, This Week
IBM’s Watson, the computer that won Jeopardy in 2011, will be going to school at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Unlike its time on national television, though, this time, Watson will be working with a purpose. In three years, the programmers, IBM,... Read more »
Naked Mole Rats May Hold the Secret to Fighting Cancer
Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter
November 9, 2012
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Games & Comics, This Week
The naked mole rat is a strange creature. Hairless, cold-blooded, and totally blind, mole rats live in the deserts of East Africa in colonies similar to those of ants. They have long puzzled biologists. Mole rats do not feel much pain and are very long lived. On average, they live 20 years as opposed... Read more »
Link-State and ACM: a conference and an organization with big plans for CWRU Computer Science
Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter
November 2, 2012
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Games & Comics, Local Events, Top Stories
It’s cold and raining at 9 a.m. on Oct. 27. Despite the weather, people are gathering at Nord Hall. They are here for the first Link-State, an annual conference held by the Case Western Reserve University chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), a computer science society. All of... Read more »
Digital vs. Physical: The Changing Face of Technology
Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter
October 19, 2012
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Games & Comics
Over the last few years, we have been digitizing everything we consume. Our books are eBooks, our music is saved as mp3s, and our movies and TV shows are streamed straight from Netflix. We have made this change because it makes everything so easy and convenient. We can access almost anything online near... Read more »
Tech Op-Ed: Remember Where Your Technology Comes From
Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter
October 13, 2012
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Games & Comics
America loves technology. Just a few weeks ago, the iPhone 5 sold a record breaking 5 million units within three days of being released. Now that is over, everyone is starting to wonder about Windows 8, due out later this month, as well as the possibility of the new iPad mini. Tech news outlets, and... Read more »
Facebook Hits 1 Billion Users
Owen Bell, Games and Tech Reporter
October 13, 2012
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Games & Comics
So, here we are. Facebook has one billion active users. Not 800 million people and 200 million accounts just to boost Farmville scores, but one billion actual people now using Facebook. What does that number actually mean? It means that because of Facebook, the Internet is now the way that we communicate... Read more »
NBA 2K13 Review
Michael DiMauro, Chief Copy Editor
October 5, 2012
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Games & Comics
So if you had a basketball game that is consistently one of the biggest sports games every year, would you take your foot off the gas? Well NBA 2K13, executively produced by Jay-Z, certainly hasn’t. Jay-Z definitely was looking to keep improving on the already fantastic elements of NBA 2K13. No... Read more »