Richard Moss
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Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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What happened when Sega courted female players in the mid-’90s
In the Genesis era, the mid-1990s, Sega put together a task force to try to adapt its games like Sonic the Hedgehog — and create new ones — to appeal to female players. → Read More
Assassin’s Creed: An oral history
Go back to where it all began, as told by the team that was there → Read More
Veteran game developers reveal their childhood creations
When Oliver Franzke was eight years old, his parents bought an East German knockoff of the Commodore 64 called the Kleincomputer 85/4. He started to learn the programming language BASIC on it in between sessions on a friend's C64 playing LucasArts' adventure game Zak McKracken. He recalls now that this pairing changed his life forever. He learned how to make BASIC draw lines, and he used those… → Read More
What makes Oddworld tick
One of the minds behind the Oddworld universe shares his storytelling philosophies and inspirations as he works on the Abe's Exoddus reimagining Soulstorm. → Read More
What makes Oddworld tick
One of the minds behind the Oddworld universe shares his storytelling philosophies and inspirations as he works on the Abe's Exoddus reimagining Soulstorm. → Read More
Wipeout's co-creator looks back at three decades of racing games
Nick Burcombe has spent most of his career chasing Super Mario Kart's shadow. The Wipeout co-creator and Playrise founder remembers a time, before Wipeout's release, when Shigeru Miyamoto and his entourage came to the game's E3 stand to check it out. "It took all my effort not to run up to him and start screeching about how Mario Kart was the best game ever and how it had been a massive… → Read More
Wipeout's co-creator looks back at three decades of racing games
Nick Burcombe has spent most of his career chasing Super Mario Kart's shadow. The Wipeout co-creator and Playrise founder remembers a time, before Wipeout's release, when Shigeru Miyamoto and his entourage came to the game's E3 stand to check it out. "It took all my effort not to run up to him and start screeching about how Mario Kart was the best game ever and how it had been a massive… → Read More
Why A Million People Still Play Multiplayer Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Every Month
It may be two Grand Theft Auto generations and 11 years old, but GTA: San Andreas is still very much alive. Its two most popular online multiplayer mods → Read More
Hitting The Virtual Roads Of Euro And American Truck Simulator With Retired Truckers
Truck driving games like American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 are popular because they offer a routine, almost meditatively romantic simplicity → Read More
My Favourite Art Style: SimCity 2000
I like to tell people that the brilliance of SimCity 2000's art style rested on the fact that it was not isometric but rather used a technique called dimetric → Read More
World's oldest axe fragment found in Australia
A thumbnail-sized fragment of a stone axe found in a remote area of Western Australia predates previous discoveries by more than 10,000 years. The axe fragment is estimated to be between 45,000 and 49,000 years old and was invented soon after humans arrived in Australia around 50,000 years ago. → Read More
Wot I Think: The Witness
After a whopping seven years in development, Jonathan Blow’s follow-up to Braid is finally here. The Witness throws out much — though not all — of the → Read More
Portable robotic glove enters clinical trials for hand rehabilitation
A new robotic glove for hand rehabilitation swaps conventional rigid electromechanical components for soft fabric with embedded actuators that are meant to conform to natural hand movements. EsoGlove is lightweight and intuitive enough for patients to use in their own homes. → Read More
VTOL Kestrel drone morphs into fixed-wing aircraft after takeoff
Drone maker Autel Robotics has developed a vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aircraft that transitions into a fixed-wing flight mode once it gets into the air. With a range of up to 62 miles (100 km) and a payload of 4.4 lb ( 2kg), it's being targeted at humanitarian and agricultural operations. → Read More
Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing
Scant few games stand the test of time and retain a large active player base sixteen years after release. But not only has Age of Empires II endured, it has → Read More
New flow battery projected to cost 60% less than existing standard
A new flow battery technology promises to drastically lower the cost and sustainability of running energy storage systems. The battery uses low-cost and sustainable organic materials for electrolytes rather than the usual commodity metals, and it could be retrofitted to existing batteries. → Read More
Fluorescent molecules let neuroscientists peer into the mind of a fruit fly
Researchers added fluorescent molecules to synapses so they could read the minds (after the fact) of fruit flies engaged in complex behavior. The work has implications for efforts to both map and understand the neural pathways within fruit fly brains as well as in human brains. → Read More
Researchers develop high-performance underwater glue inspired by mussels
UC Santa Barbara scientists have replicated the uncanny underwater adhesive capacity of mussels in a versatile and strong synthetic material. The ultra-thin material boasts up to 10 times the effectiveness of prior wet adhesives, and it could soon find use in a variety of sticky situations. → Read More
Self-healing gel to repair and connect electronic circuits
A new polymer hydrogel reassembles itself when broken, and could lead to self-healing electronic circuits (which in turn could result in sturdier, more reliable flexible electronics) as well as longer-lasting rechargeable batteries. The gel also has potential applications in soft robotics. → Read More
Respite nebulizer may replace inhalers and injections for drug delivery
A prototype nebulizer developed at RMIT can deliver high doses more efficiently than inhalers, and it could be used instead of needles for new drug treatments such as DNA vaccines and stem cell therapy. The nebulizer could also replace inhalers for many asthma and lung cancer patients. → Read More