Supergiant Games has posted a impromptu performance of Build That Wall, a song from Bastion’s acoustic Americana soundtrack. A throwback to action-RPGs of the early 90s, Bastion, and its soundtrack, were well-recieved this year. Audio director Darren Korb and vocalist Ashley Barrett perform a soulfu
Wish the fruits of your labor in Minecraft existed outside the computer screen. Now there is a way to make your creations tangible. Shapeways, a company that specializes in printing 3D objects (think Spread Shirt for paper-crafts) allows you to print out your characters, structures, and for the righ
According to CinemaBlend, the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) is planning a retrospective for legendary Canadian film director David Cronenberg, whose credits range from indie hits and Academy-admired works, from The Fly and Dead Ringers to The History of Violence and this year’s Carl Jung character st
Last November, the first videogame expo in Saudi Arabi was held in Riyadh. How was it? According to a firsthand account, pretty much like any other game show, complete with long lines, cosplay, and a Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournament. After finally pushing my past the crowd inside the entrance, I disco
Are machines capable of understanding and abiding by moral principles? How would we go about teaching them ethics? These questions and more are explored in an article published by the New York Times entitled The Future of Moral Machines. The article explores the possibility that, as computing powe
Typically, first year film students get the shaft, not touching a camera until their sophomore or junior years. However, University of Southern California freshmen got an early taste of collaborative filmmaking this fall when their School of Cinematic Arts introduced Reality, a card-collecting game
Thanks to the new movie Real Steel, in which Hugh Jackman commands a large rocking and socking robot in the future, there’s been renewed interest in Rock’ Em Sock’ Em Robots. It turns out that despite its silly premise, the robot boxing in Real Steel follows the original theme of Rock’ Em Sock’ Em R
We’ve all heard that mobiles are keeping us from working-but are they actually keeping us from zoning out? Nick Bilton has an interesting New York Times blog post about how mobiles are limiting the essential human capacity to daydream: Jonah Lehrer, a neuroscientist and the author of the soon-to-be