Gaming Technology Blog

Okay, good news-bad news: the good news is, NASA wants to make an massive multiplayer online (MMO) game that will help players learn more about the sci-tech side of NASA. The bad news? NASA doesn’t want to pay fot it.
No, they want the prospective game developer to fund the project by itself.
So who’s biting? According [...]

Carnegie Melon University researchers hope that gamers visiting their new website, www.gwap.com, can help make computers smarter. How? By playing online games.
For example, in the game “Tag a tune”, humans add tags to describe whether audio clips are “sad”, and so on. This helps computers learn to do stuff better, like image and audio [...]