This Conan Game Let's You Customize ... Everything →

“COMMENTSIn the new open-world survival game Conan Exiles, designers took character customization to the next level. The game is now available on Early Access, and PC Gamer’s Chris Livingston already built a character. Although many games allow players to customize their avatars, few allow the level of control granted in Conan Exiles.

Livingston took to Twitter to show off the game’s impressive character builder, which allows players to control endowment and breast size. That’s right. You can finally play as a hung barbarian. He even made some amusing GIFs to demonstrate the smoothness of the endowment slider.“

POZ: Gamers Map HIV Protein Protease in Only Three Weeks →

pozmagazine:

It took online gamers three weeks to map the elusive structure of a retrovirus protein, called a protease, that has baffled scientists for more than a decade. Protease plays a vital role in the way that HIV multiplies. Researchers at the University of Washington used a university-developed program called Foldit that transforms real-world science problems into competitive computer games; in this case, players used their three-dimensional problem-solving tools to build accurate models of the protein. Previous automated attempts at mapping the enzyme had failed. Knowing the structure of protease will help researchers design new antiretroviral drugs that can deactivate proteases, thereby greatly reducing or halting the reproduction of HIV. Click here for more.

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