But then Cordyceps Collective went and mashed up Factorio with last year's colony simulation Empire of the Ants, and now I see I'm going to lose the second half of February to Microtopia.

In 2002, researchers from the University of Tokyo discovered the largest ant colony ever recorded. They found a super-colony of yellow crazy ants, estimated to contain over 1 million queens and an ...

somebody's finally made a video game version of Hex, the sentient glass hive from Terry Pratchett's Unseen University. In spooky automation-driven strategy sim Microtopia, you manage a swarm of what ...

A (still growing) paper list of Evolutionary Computation (EC) published in some (rather all) top-tier (and also EC-focused) journals and conferences. For EC-focused publications, only ...

(Washington, D.C.) What if a small army of forward operating robots were able to detect an upcoming river gap and then .. without requiring human intervention — autonomously mesh together ...

Would the ants make a distinction between individuals, or do they generally attack anyone who is “foreign” and does not belong to their own colony? The researchers conducted the experiment in ...

Things started off normally, with Brown buzzing in to correctly guess “Ant Colony ... “Artist Colony” for $2,000 of her own. It was the final puzzle that threw the game into chaos.

There are a ridiculous number of free PC games ... the format of this game, but with some cool additional options such as proximity chat. Dwarf Fortress - A complex game of colony management ...

However, another means to get players on the client was a massive hit. Each week, Epic offers players a free video game title. Best of all, you get to claim a copy throughout the entire week so if ...

Distancing incidents were comparatively rare." When they observed the behavior of crickets that were already integrated into the host ant colony, the researchers found that the crickets did not ...