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Lethal League is part fighting game, part ball game
This isn't your middle school gym coach's dodgeball game, and it isn't your favorite arcade's fighting game. This is Lethal League, a fighting game where the goal is to smash a fast-flying ball into your opponent's face. Lethal League supports one to four players and online multiplayer, and it comes from Megabyte Punch studio Reptile. It was the Grand Finals Mystery Game at Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament 9 last year – watch the pros try to figure out its wacky mechanics here. According to Reptile, Lethal League includes "highly competitive gameplay," "mad art," "banging beats by various artists" and "no weak shit." Lethal League is due out on Steam for PC in Q3 2014. [Image: Reptile]
Robotic tuatara successfully generates research data
Just over two months ago Robo-Ollie, a robotic tuatara, was loosed into the wilderness on Stephens Island in New Zealand, and now that its creator and her colleagues have had a chance to monitor it in the wild, it looks like Mr. Oliver is performing toppingly. Sporting a nickel-cadmium battery, servos, and a rubberized skin suit, the creature has spent its time bobbing its head, gaping its mouth, and providing researchers with some intriguing data about aggressiveness and mating tendencies within the species. Unfortunately, the current iteration is essentially paralyzed from the neck back, and it took its masters a tick to understand how the head bobbing gig was "sending mixed signals" as it showcased feminine tendencies -- but now that he's regained his masculinity, it's on to figuring out what olfaction and infidelity have to do with tuatara life. [Via Digg]
