As a team of two Russian and one American astronauts blasted through the Earth’s atmosphere towards the International Space Station on Monday, they had their eyes not on the control panel, as you’d expect, but on Angry Birds. This wasn’t a case of being distracted by mobile games. The astronauts dan
Huffington Post reports that a Carmen Sandiego movie is going to happen, and Jennifer Lopez is producing it. Early plot reports make the forthcoming adaptation of the beloved computer game sound pretty formula-tastic: According to Deadline, the movie’s concept will be “‘National Treasure’ meets ‘The
Consider the case of cult thriller author Michael Grant, whose marketing scheme for his forthcoming novel BZRK revolves around an alternate reality game that stretches beyond the book into what he terms “transmedia.” Fast Company elaborates: While the book remains central to the main story, Grant sa
In his latest blog post, Clint Hocking, who is quickly becoming the web’s most quotable developer, thought aloud that videogames haven’t established the same quality and breadth of other forms of pop entertainment. His reservations were in response to a blog posted by The New Yorker, which looked at
Imagine flying your Bronzed Drake over those craggy mountains, or warding off a squad while driving your pick-up truck through a forest fire, or even coming across that bear in an RPG and having it ask you riddles. These are all things we are highly interested in doing in games. -Drew Millard [via]
9Gag has a list of Google’s secret tricks. Type these into the search bar, press “I’m feeling lucky,” and watch your afternoon evaporate: Do a barrel roll Google Sphere Epic Google Google Gravity Google Loco Google Gothic Google Pacman Google Guitar Google Pirate Google Rainbow Google Pirate Google
Bennett Foddy is at it again. The former member of Cut Copy, doctor of philosophy at Oxford, and dude who just knows how to use his time better than you recently released a new experiment in finger twisting, PoleRiders. Face off with a friend and try to overcoming the (purposely) difficult controls
A developer post-mortem is usually intended to show where a developer thinks they failed or succeeded and use that as a tool for future devs. Mike Slone, one of the developers behind Saints’ Row 2, uses the format to discuss how he dealt with his crumbling marriage while working on the game. “Even a