In upcoming documentary Side By Side, Keanu Reeves sits down with some of the most important directors working now to discuss technology’s effect on the film industry’s evolution. Discussing the death of film, the transition into digital, the 3D craze and the proliferation of digital filmmaking, Ci
Now that’s a hand-crafted table. – Adnan Agha
As we often find in gaming, some of the most successful television titles feature leading male figures. Caught within a certain world and predicament, everything within the narrative seems to change and evolve…except for themselves. The Atlantic published an essay yesterday on this current phenomen
You finish that game or so help me I will turn this car around! Here’s the news: – The Last Guardian team is getting the help of the God of War guys to help finish their game. I’m not sure how to feel about this. – The PS4 is rumored to be using an AMD graphics card. Just like the Nextbox. – Indie d
While there may be few that would argue Transformers 3 was a great movie, a couple new videos out of visual effect studios ILM and Digital Domain featured at Slashfilm dissect a few action sequences and show the amount of work that was put in to every shot. Watching every individual layer stripped o
Scientists in Hawaii recently caught dolphins and whales playing together off of the coasts of Maui and Kauai and it’s just really amazing. Watch and be in awe. -Lyndsey Edelman [link]
The first time I met Daniel Benmerguithe creator of dreamy games such as I Wish I Were the Moon and Today I Diewasn’t when I interviewed him, but the night before. I had been playing a preview build of his IGF finalist game Storyteller before I went to bed. The game has you to arrange pixellated
Good morning. RPG fans: take a deep breath. –The well-received Xenoblade Chronicles is set for release in the US on April 6. -The Guild Wars 2 beta is available for sign ups … but not for long. -Facebook is opening a new European games division. -Nintendo has plans to take advantage of video streami
For all New Yorkers annoyed by the inexplicable presence of a television in the back of their car whenever they take a cab, help is on the way. The New York Times reports that the Taxi and Limousine Commission is now weighing the option of embedding tablet computers, which can only mean one thing fo
Betas and DLC and 3DS games, oh my! – The 3DS is getting Mario Tennis (May 20th), Brain Age and may be getting a Zelda game. – Borderlands 2 is coming September 18 and has a detail-filled trailer too. – The next Metal Gear Solid game (possibly not MGS5) is looking for talent and is planned for cons
2K Sports recently updated New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin’s virtual stats in NBA 2K12. It’s a conservative update reflecting the brevity of Lin’s career to date, giving him a 69 overall rating. In case you haven’t heard, Lin recently began kicking ass for the Knicks, and the new videogame st
In games as in life, a frequent question we ask ourselves is why we make the choices we do. Though the concept of free will has captivated philosophers and scientists for much of human history, modern psychology and neuroscience has often been deemed the final blow against humanism’s optimistic view
There was some speculation late last year about the possibility of Minecraft legos finding their way to toy stores and eager fans of Notch’s indie hit. The toy has finally gotten a release date, Edge reports: The Minecraft-inspired Lego set will be released this summer for $34.99 / 34.99, but can b
If you keep up with the decrepit pageantry and hilariously Gossip Girl-esque drama of classic rock reunions (why wouldn’t you?), you might have heard that due to mitigating circumstances, Black Sabbath’s upcoming reunion tour has been downgraded to “Ozzy and Friends.” Weirdly enough, the “and Friend
Software studio Impending has an amazing post of what Apple can be doing to deal with scams and cloners who steal ideas. They list a host of potential fixes but this one caught my eye: Better Education of App Store Customers: Much like the fashion industry, the App Store’s plague of knockoffs create
Explaining to your friends exactly why you play games can be a tricky proposition, but Dutch agency 180 Amsterdam does so beautifully in this new spot for the PlayStation Vita. The ad is directed by Cary Fukunaga (who won the Sundance Dramatic Directing award for Sin Nombre), and I found the bit on
Even if videogames rot your brain, they may still be able to improve your vision. While normally this type of improvement comes from “getting glasses or eye surgery — somehow changing the optics of the eye,” Daphne Bavelier of the University of Rochester in New York states that “action video games t
Yesterday, Rihanna and Chris Brown released two songs that they made together, effectively ending any public ill will that existed between the two following Brown’s brutal assault upon Rihanna, his then-girlfriend. Objectively, they are not very good. To take a further objective standpoint, these tw
Shouts out to Kotaku for catching that Sony has patented some motion-sensing technology that is explicitly similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect: The patent is for a “USER-DRIVEN THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE GAMING ENVIRONMENT”, which would involve plugging a camera into a PlayStation and using it to
Good morning! Here’s the newest in gaming. -There’s going to be a free-to-play Simpsons game. -There’s a full trailer out for the new Doctor Who game adaptation. -Supernatural MMO The Secret World has been delayed till June 19. –The Last Guardian continues development with some help from the west. -
Videogames offer an unprecedented ability for their players to assume unique guises and forms of identity often unavailable anywhere else in life. But how do we separate ourselves as players of games from the beings we become in games? Gamasutra’s Tony Venice has a fascinating study of the question:
Remember the huge and ultimately inconsequential legal effort over limiting the sale of violent videogames in California? Lawmakers in the Sunshine State certainly do: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown, governor and attorney general at the time, supported appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court des
Back from the long weekend, here’s today’s big news. – A recently published patent has revealed that Sony may working on their own version of the Kinect. – French games site Gameblog noticed that Activision let slip that this year’s Call of Duty would be Black Ops 2. They were not happy about it. –
In case you missed it, here is the video that resulted from an internal, Skyrim-based game jam at Bethesda: The changes featured in the video range from aesthetic and technically challenging to new enemy types or player abilities (the ability to adopt children and ride a giant flaming horse-though s
A former animator for Guitar Hero and Amplitude, Antonio Bolfo was looking for something more meaningful in his life. So he became a NYC cop. “I wanted street-level experience, so I opted to be a cop,” he said recently. “I didn’t want to just ride a desk all day in the F.B.I. right off the bat. It w
