Hasta La Gadget!

After seven months of cooperative tapping, Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity experiment is finally over: the cube is open. As Molyneux’s studio, 22Cans, teased the game’s last layer over Twitter, players descended upon it, chipping away the last million cubelets in a matter of minutes. “We have a winner,” the game’s creator wrote on the social network. “They should get a message now.” 22Cans is currently trying to validate the player who tapped away the final block. After the final block disappeared, so did the cube, presumably to be opened privately by the winner. So, what was inside the box? We may never know — but if you just happened to win, fill us in, would you?

Update: The winner asked Molyneux to share the winner video with the community. Their prize? Godhood, according to 22Cans. The winner will be featured as a deity in the company’s next game, Goddess, and will able to “decide on the rules that the game is played by.” The winner will get a share of the revenue generated by the title. Check out the full video for yourself after the break.

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Peter Molyneux’s first creation since Lionhead, is now live on the App Store, presenting gamers with a humungous cube composed of billions of tiny cubelets. Curiosity’s virtual block needs to be stripped down layer by layer through collective effort, to reach the center and reveal “something life-challengingly amazing”. There’s no sign of the expected tear-inducing paid DLC; instead, you pay for power-ups using coins earned by tapping away at the game. 100 of those coins will let you see the stats screen, while 3 billion will reward you with the Diamond Chisel — the ultimate tool for block-whacking. Based on our brief time at the grindstone, it’s safe to say the game’s impact won’t be as profound as that of the other Curiosity, but its social aspects have some interesting potential — not least using Facebook to locate friends who are playing and compare each other’s progress. The game is available free at the App Store if you’d like to leave your mark.

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Curiosity lands at the App Store, in the massively multiplayer cube-chipping category originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After planting a rover firmly on Mars’ surface and testing a new methane-fueled lander, NASA has squeezed in the first test flight of its X-48C hybrid wing-body aircraft. Thanks to its design, which combines those of flying-wing and conventional planes, the X-48 could offer 20 to 30 percent more fuel-efficiency, greater fuel capacity and a quieter ride in its final form than traditional craft. The finished model has a projected range of 11,000 nautical miles and a 240-foot wingspan. As an 8.5 percent scale of the full-sized airplane, the remotely piloted prototype weighs in at 500 pounds with a 20-foot wingspan. During the test, it successfully took to the skies for nine minutes and peaked at an altitude of 5,500 feet — though it’s capable of soaring for 35 minutes and climbing nearly twice as high. Another version of the craft (likely with a human behind the flight stick) is estimated to be at least four years down the road, and the final model isn’t expected to arrive for another decade.

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NASA’s X-48C hybrid wing-body plane completes first test flight originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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