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One of my students showed me this game, [Fantastic Contraption](http://fantasticcontraption.com/). The basic idea is to use a couple of different "machine" parts to ...

Greetings from delightfully temperate Seattle! At this weekend’s PAX Prime, I had my first experience in the HTC Vive and got to see the brand new Fantastic Contraption demo. Christine Genova Porter ...

Virtual reality, despite what is often written, is a social experience. But you have to spend some time with the technology in order to understand how strapping a headset across your eyes can bring ...

Are you ready to hear the sweetest story in videogaming? A man named Jeff Tunnell made The Incredible Machine in the early '90s, and seduced the world with its simple puzzles, solved exclusively with ...