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Moonbase Alpha update adds competitive and sandbox modes
Now that Curiosity has landed safely on Mars, it's time to thrust the moon back into the spotlight. The free NASA-released PC game, Moonbase Alpha, from developer Virtual Heroes, has been updated with a new team-based multiplayer mode dubbed "Moonbase Madness." In the mode, two teams of three ...
NASA flinging Portal 2's space core into space, sort of
Wheatley, the adorably dumb and delightfully devious space core in Portal 2, is making a real-life trip to space. Kind of. An anonymous tech at NASA got away with laser-engraving the above image of Wheatley with the quote "In spaaaaaaace!" on the Japanese HTV-3 resupply craft to the ISS. Wheatley ...
Angry Birds Space trailer, brought to you by NASA [Update: Screens and details]
This teaser for Angry Birds Space not only has the cooperation of NASA, it was filmed on the International Space Station, featuring a live Angry Birds demonstration and physics lesson from astronaut Don Pettit. All right, Rovio, that's pretty damn cool. As a nice bonus, there's gameplay footage ...
How Rovio CEO's grandparents saved the space program... wait...
Before Apollo 11 made history by successfully shuttling the first humans to the moon in 1969, the space program was in desperate financial condition and President John F. Kennedy had his grandparents mortgage their apartment for the money to keep NASA running. Er, no -- we're getting our stories ...
NASA totally makes iOS and Facebook games now
NASA is exploring the strange new world of social and mobile gaming, with two new game apps designed to educate about math, flight, and the history of space exploration. Sector 33 for iOS is an air traffic control simulator, in which players manage the speed and route of up to five planes coming ...
Watch space shuttle Discovery's final launch from PlayStation Home premium yacht
Home users! Be sure to step out of your promotional wastelands and secret subscriber enclaves today, for the sake of history. Space shuttle Discovery is taking off for the last time today at 4:50PM ET, and you can watch the whole thing from the confines of the PS3's virtual world. However, ...
NASA's free Moonbase Alpha now available
If the Army can release a free video game to drum up some attention for its cause, why not NASA? That seems to be the argument behind Moonbase Alpha, a free game developed along with NASA that's now available on Steam. With up to six players at a time, the game allows you to experience the surface ...
'Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission' premiering at SXSW Film Festival
Richard Garriott spent years as the ruler of a fictional kingdom before he became a second-generation astronaut. Sounds like the kind of guy you'd want to make a movie about! That's exactly what filmmaker Mike Woolf and his production company, Beef & Pie, has done, and it sounds like it's going ...
Online gaming between Earth and Mars will be laggy as hell
We know that not everyone was blessed with knowledge of aeronautical physics and interplanetary telecommunications, so we'll try and keep this simple. A recent Edge Online article examined the possibility of online multiplayer matches between human Earthlings and human Martians -- as one might ...
NASA may enter game publishing realm with space exploration MMO
Though space-themed MMOs have a tendency of hastily going the way of the dodo (sometimes before they're ever released), NASA is considering throwing their lot into the ever-growing MMO market with an online space exploration game that will allow players to "simulate real Nasa engineering and ...
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