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Fantastic Contraption is a terrific idea for virtual reality. Fantastic Contraption is a browser-based 2D physics puzzler that launched in 2008. It's been enjoyed by millions of players, who have ...

Are you ready to hear the sweetest story in videogaming? A man named Jeff Tunnell made The Incredible Machine in the early '90s, and seduced the world with its simple puzzles, solved exclusively with ...

When I was a kid, I used to love to sit and build cool things with my Erector sets. The sets came with little motors that used two D-cell batteries and you could make things that would actually move.