VIDEO GAMES: Nerds: 1 Everything Else: 0

I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with the Kickstarter organization. What it does is allows entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas and gather support in the form of funding from anyone willing to donate. The idea is to get enough people excited about your product that they will actually donate enough for you to make it. Well nerds have stepped up big time and done something pretty amazing. Double Fine Adventure wants to make an old school point and click adventure game that will harken back to classic gaming. They decided to get their funds through Kickstarter and saying they've found success would be a deathly understatement. The studio's goal was to raise $400,000 by March 13th...they met that goal in 8 hours. Not only did they reach $400,000 in 8 hours, but they currently sit at $740,000 from over 18,000 "backers." That is absolutely insane and this morning, via their Twitter, Kickstarter confirmed that it's a record for fundraising. Seriously this is so damn awesome I'll end up buying the game just to see what comes from this awesome story. It's nice to see that there's still such a deep passion for old-school gaming out there.

UPDATE: Donations have broken $1 million! Holy crap.

Head over to Gamespot and read the full story HERE!

VIDEO GAMES: Nerds: 1 Scientists: 0

AIDS sucks. Like big time. Obviously one of the biggest tasks in finding a cure for the AIDS virus is completely understanding it. A website exists called Fold.it which allows people to, in the form of a game, try to decipher the shape of a protein. It's all very scientific and wayyyyy beyond my level of knowledge. However, for a group of online gamers the task seemed simple enough. The site gives people three weeks to try and decode the shape of the virus and online gamers solved the mystery in 10 days! The amazing thing? This particular case has been stumping scientists for 15 years! Obviously this is just one small step in the long and difficult process of actually finding a cure for the disease but the fact that some online gamers have made such an impact in such a short amount of time is awesome. It's nice to see the word "gamer" in the headlines and have it not be followed by how addicted to games people are getting or how the most recent shooting was because the dude played Call of Duty for ten minutes.

A full version of the story on Yahoo HERE!

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