There is a moment in the seminal Simpsons espisode in which Homer gains hundreds of pounds to go on paid disability, where he is unable to fit into a movie theater seat, and the smarmy theater owner promises, if Homer will “kindly leave”, to “treat you to a garbage bag full of popcorn.” Homer is abo
Slate asks a most pertinent question. Watch for Romney’s devastating “tax evasion” move and Herman Cain’s “creepy ad” rejoinder. Great stuff.
Sony’s surprise that developers don’t want to commit time and resources to developing for a platform that, frankly, is out of touch with the economic and gaming realities of 2012 (no money, lots of cheap options), and is the real surprise in this story. “One thing that was surprising and disappointi
For a constellation of aesthetic, practical, social, technological, motivational, logical, ethical and moral reasons, I do not use Instagram. Please, feed me your hate; it makes me stronger. But. But. But! Photogotchi, a new, magic, filter from CarnationGroup, casts a Metroidish-shadow on the imag
J. Hoberman, exiled from the Village Voice, hits one out of the park at The New York Review of Books with his discussion of the introduction of CGI into film. – – – In short, whether as a source of visual data or as a delivery system, computer-generated imagery has introduced a radical impurity into
A collaboration between the Newcastle Univeristy Business School and the University of Crete yields the results that thousands of basement-dwelling, Cheeto-mainlining deadbeats have been waiting for: playing MMOs can teach workplace leadership skills. As the working world demands international colla
Over in LA-LA land, movie and television composers are taking a break from their linear narratives and CGI explosions to score, well, the slightly less linear narratives and, er, CGI explosions of videogames. Money quote: “The score will never play the same way twice,” Tyler says. “I like to watch p