Games are a part and parcel of human society and have existed for many centuries. From the gladiators of ancient Rome to Gears of War on the Xbox 360, games have proven to be an intrinsic part of our culture. A game is defined as “structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool”. Initially, what is now known as a video game was a simulation tool developed by the military to help emulate aerial combat. Technological advancements led to development and availability to the masses. Since the inception of arcade games in 1978, there has been a constant progress in video games, in both technological and commercial terms

What comes to your mind when you think of God of War? Ares. You better forget him. He’s dead. So is Zeus, Athena and well, every Greek god we know. You know why? Kratos has spent the three GOW games killing all of them. One by one. That’s how Greek mythology ended. GOW is a bloodthirsty, brutal hack and slash adventure game which will take you around the hotspots of Greek mythos in wave after wave after wave of gore, baddies doing backflips and some more gore. PS: If you’re under 18, you should definitely ask mommy before you play this. The game – both as a series and individually – have captivating storylines, tight gameplay and some really good finishers on a very grand scale. The only downside to this game is that it is a Play Station exclusive game but it’s definitely worth getting a PS for.

The comet, christened 2012 S1 is heading towards the Sun from outside the solar system. Currently, it is a glowing mass streaking between Saturn and Jupiter, 900 million miles away from Earth. As it draws closer to the inner solar system, pulled in by the Sun’s immense gravitational field, it will become more luminous.

It was of course a successful marriage, a very rare thing in today’s time. After all the incidents of cyber stalking and people having their accounts hacked into and the class action suits against it, Facebook finally found its niche. And now Instagram is threatening not only that niche but also its users’ privacy. As of January 2013, Instagram will be instating new policies that allow the sale of user posted photos by Instagram.

The universe is vast. It’s so hugely, mind-bogglingly vast that, despite the tons and tons of sci-fi and alien movies set in it, there’s still so much of it to go around. Interestingly enough, the main question in scientists’ heads these days is: “How did the universe come to be?” The widely accepted theory is that there was a “Big Bang”, and lo and behold, the universe was created. Apart from bible crazy creationists, this is the widely accepted cosmological model for how the universe was created

The latest trend to come out of Japan has successfully scared the world once again by being closer to crazy than cool. It’s also extremely popular. Surprisingly, this body modification process was started in Canada, and quickly became a part of the Japanese underground scene. It became highly sensationalized after it was documented in an episode of National Geographic Channel’s series, “Taboo”.

Researchers at the Department of Human Nutrition at Ohio State University have now developed an injection, which can burn off excess body fat because it injects tiny capsules containing a heat-producing cell that is commonly found only in babies and animals. The research was led by Dr. Ouliana Ziouzenkova and was initially conducted on mice.Research results demonstrated nearly ten percent loss in body weight, despite the fact that the mice were on a high

So how does this sound to you? Carrying all your important files and documents, anywhere and anytime you want, without having to carry any external storage devices, like hard disks, pen drives and memory cards? And that’s not all, what if you could access these files on any of your fancy devices, like your Tablet and Smartphone, or even simply on your friend’s computer, using something as minimalist as an internet connection. Does this not appeal to you as a pleasant change?

Mars has always been the subject of curiosity for scientists and will continue to be because of a theory known as planetary habitability.
Planetary habitability, in simple terms, is the ability that a planet has to sustain life. Scientists favour planets that have some water on its surface and this requires the orbit of a planet to lie within the habitable zone. The habitable zone in the case of the Sun extends from beyond Venus to somewhere around the semi-major axis of Mars.

The recent discovery of the Higg’s Boson has stirred not just the scientific community, but the whole world. Such magnified attention to a scientific discovery is quite rare, but the media attention focused on it, has brought this, and the Large Hadron Collider, which made it possible, into the limelight.