It turns out that there’s emulation and there’s emulation. Ars Technica’s story about a quest to build the perfect SNES emulator charts the difficulties of making software act like hardware, which purists say may require up to 3GHz of processing oomph to mirror the original 21MHz system.
Obviously, the future of Kinect is about being wired up to a soft toy monkey with a robotic skeleton that can jerkily mirror your actions. Jan M. Sieber and Ralph Kistler’s Monkey Business is both delightful and profoundly horrible.
So far so predictable - Umbrella, Foxhound and Aperture Science - but Fauxgo’s artfully presented compendium of fictional logos seems worth keeping an eye on.
Ever wondered what lies around PopCap’s Seattle studio? Why, permanent happy birthday celebratory bunting, the OMEGACLAW and indistinctly steampunk objects, of course.
Finally, to explain the lead picture, we suspect we’ll never fundamentally understand planking, but seeing it performed in Deus Ex by Edge chum Ultrabrilliant helps a little.