Recently, the Village Voice caused a stir when they fired the long-time, reputable film critic, J. Hoberman. The NY Times today has a piece out in which their own big name critics, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott (you’ve seen their write-ups on Rotten Tomatoes, surely), speak with the now decommission
In our Public Play issue, Jon Irwin wondered if the short-lived career of Nintendo’s Virtual Boy was “just a hint of what is now being fully realized.” 3D technology is certainly seeing a resurgence today, but a new device showcased at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show seems closer to the headge
Shandy from San Francisco has made a woodcut board of “Settlers of Catan”. His project has already been funded via Kickstarter, but you can appreciate his handiwork here and here. It’s a shame you can’t still pledge; for $1,000 dollars he promised to hand deliver the set in a “super embarrassing Cat
So, you fight with your roommates over dirty dishes but your guild in WoW could not be getting along better. Ever wonder how it does so well? Recently, researches at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria have looked at the behaviors of more than 400,000 people who play the online MMO Pardus t
As the specter of the Stop Online Piracy Act looms on the horizon, threatening our internet sovereignty, many sites are trying to get the message out. Wikipedia had their black out and many tech sites shut down for the day. Ludum Dare, a community devoted to creating games in a limited time frame, l
A firsthand account of John Madden’s “man cave.” A rumination on the intricacies of sports A.I.. The question, “Are Sports Games Art?” It might be easier to tell you what isn’t in writer Tom Bissell’s investigation into EA’s Madden franchise. But the part that struck a chord with me is that John Mad
DICE is a games conference in Las Vegas. It is expensive and exclusive, but has yielded some classic talks such as Jesse Schell’s now-legendary future of gamification/points for brushing your teeth talk. I’ll be there to grapple with Adam Sessler of G4 on what writing and talking about games actual
The American military’s long and much-discussed use of videogames for training, public relations, and (arguably) recruitment strategies have reached a new level of immersive virtualization, Wired reports: “You design an avatar that has the individual facial features of a soldier,” James Blake, the A