Forbes has a wonderful profile of Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek. Aside from outlining Spotify’s rise to greatness and more than 2.5 million members, the piece outlines a telling tidbit from Ek’s adolescence: At 14 Ek latched onto the late-1990s dot-com mania, making commercial websites in his school’s com
Russia is planning to build a large domed city not far from the North Pole. ‘We aim to have scientific laboratories, houses, but also parks with attractions, an Aqua complex, hotels and a cathedral. Naturally there will be schools, kindergartens, recreation zones, a hospital, and sport facilities ar
Every year, NYU hosts New York’s Global Game Jam site. It’s a place where designers, coders, sound engineers and artists all come together to make games in 72 hours. No experience is necessary and all are welcome. Last year’s theme was “extinction” and heralded games from text adventures to platform
Several artists have pooled their talents to light up the path beneath a busy expressway in Brooklyn. Silent Lights is an architectural series of gates that frames a pedestrian pathway by day showing constant movement through shadows. It transforms sound into patterns of light at night as it mimics
Consoles previously deemed suitable for “hardcore gamers” alone have been going through lots of rebranding strategies as of late to become more family-friendly “entertainment centers.” But here’s one you probably haven’t heard of before, courtesy of the “Compact, Hyper-Insulated Prot House otype Sol
Back for that daily dose of mainstream gaming news. – Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo has said that the Wii U will launch by the end of this year. – Insomniac won’t be making any additions to the Resistance franchise. – The fallout from last year’s M-rated games legislation has left California
A lot has been said about stereotypical gamers that lead many of us to despise online gaming in its entirety. But like any area of human contact, multiplayer videogames define large areas of public space that naturally cohere into different forms of sociality and behavior. A new study featured in Ga
While some of the world’s leading museums have starting gamifying their content in one way or another, how games themselves fit into curatorial content remains an open question. This year’s GDC will tackle the question with a unique exhibition: The ‘History Of 3D Games’ exhibit includes original gam