Zach McKay is a writer from the United States, and a game lover since he stole his dad’s N64 controller to play Ocarina of Time. He has been playing video games for the better part of 25 years and ...

The eighteenth century was the golden age of fascination with automata. Between 1738 and 1741, Jacques de Vaucanson thrilled Paris with a clockwork duck, flutist, and pipe player. These were ...

The developers behind “Bitcraft: Age of Automata” want you to build the world from the ground up. Villages, towns, cities, nations and empires are all in players hands. That’s how Clockwork Labs ...

It’s fitting that the European renaissance of automata, or kinetic sculptures designed to mimic human movement, began with a clockmaker—like their timekeeping counterparts, automata operate on cue, ...

This essay is excerpted from Strange Frequencies by Peter Bebergal, published by Penguin/TarcherPerigree. In an enormous Goodwill in Seattle, the horologist (a watchmaker and expert in related devices ...

My first steps in Bitcraft: Age of Automata, Clockwork Labs’ upcoming survival crafting MMO, felt a bit like Minecraft, if I’m honest. There was a need to explore my surroundings, grab materials and ...

Clockwork today announced a new service that uses its clock synchronization service to eliminate packet drops to help businesses improve their network performance. A year ago, the company created a ...

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Two weeks ago, in an industrial shed in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, a team of engineers installed a large, orange robot arm. It was a standard industrial robot arm, but it was not going to be ...

Harper’s alternate Victorian England is afflicted by a “clockwork plague” that renders most victims mindless zombies and transforms a rare few into geniuses responsible for a multitude of mechanical ...

Early modern automata : an abridged history -- Ever more variations on theme at the court of Rudolf II -- The gifts that keep on giving -- A figure of speech -- Hapsburg-Ottoman diplomatic machinery - ...