Videogames and sex don’t usually sit well together in a sentence in our cultural imagination, unless the sentence is something like “nerds who play videogames don’t have a lot of sex.” But why is there such an uneasy connection between games and one of the most essential human experiences that has p
Ever at the forefront of digital media innovation, Angry Birds has officially landed in the world’s largest social media platform. Wired reports: The new browser-based version of Angry Birds comes loaded with a slew of new features including exclusive levels, social gaming integration (allowing you
Good morning! Here’s some of the latest and greatest in the gaming world. -North America is getting Far Cry 3 on September 4. -Studio Ghibli’s Ni no Kuni has been pushed back to winter of 2012. -The “Be Mine” Valentine’s Indie Bundle was shut down from flooded servers, but will return soon. –Gotham
Aaand we’re back! Here’s the rest of today’s gaming news. – Sony’s got some really high hopes for their upcoming handheld. – Huge indie darling Dear Esther, a Half-Life 2 that was an IGF finalist, released on Steam for PC yesterday and there is also a Mac port in the works. – The game version of The
A lot of press has been given to the steadily increasing growth in the archival presence of videogames and they begin to enter the phase in their history where people realize that they actually deserve a physical history. Now curators at the British Library have taken a new path: creating a digital
Last week, Drew and I had the pleasure of attending an EA spotlight event in New York City, an event which simultaneously fed the teaser-hungry Mass Effect 3 fan in me and aggravated me because the embargo stopped me from talking about any of these same teasers for far too long. Chief among this was
Phillip Zambardo lectures on how we spend our time: are we future oriented? Present? Past? He also goes into a detailed discussion of how computers and technology change our perception of time, and what that means for things like technology. Basically, Zimbardo makes a powerful argument that our in
When Columbia Pictures decided to retool Spider Man for a younger, edgier audience, apparently they had more in mind than putting Spidey back in high school and handing the reins over to a filmmaker older pop culture nerds mostly remember from the Evil Dead. Wired reports that the latest trailer has
In all likelihood, you have eaten a Chipotle burrito within the last year. Why shouldn’t you? They’re tasty and cheap-ish and they let you know how many calories you’re taking in. From a corporate standpoint, they’re a success story in an economic era when that sort of thing is increasingly rare. Sl
To all the haters out there that still maintain that “gamers don’t think,” videogames have just won over another interesting cultural advocate. The decidedly literary British playwright Lucy Prebble of ENRON and Secret Diary of a Call Girl fame went as far as to call out her own medium in a recent t
If you didn’t read the caption, it’s this morning’s latest gaming news. -The next XBOX might be designed with a touchscreen controller, much like the Wii U. -Darksiders II is slated for release on June 26. -A Palm Beach mom left her child alone in a Gamestop and was arrested for child neglect. -Bria
Always I want to be with you and make believe with you and bring you today’s mainstream gaming news! – Goldhawk Interactive, developers of Cold War/Alien strategy game Xenonauts, have promised a true remake of X-COM. – The Mass Effect 3 demo is out today, best Valentine’s Day ever, right? – Lego has
Whether or not it’s bullshit, gamification is upon us. A recent article in TechCrunch states that with the help of business and entrepreneurial culture realizing that games can be, well, really addicting, fun, and therefore useful in abetting the cause to hawk more stuff at the consumer, “gamificati
Feminist Playing Cards is exactly what it sounds like: the traditional deck of cards featuring feminist musicians, illustrated by talented feminist artists. Does it have to get any more complicated than that? –Josiah Harrist [via Kickstarter]
Andy Cush of Wired has an interview with Arcade Fire’s collaborator Vincent Morisset, the multimedia artist behind their music videos. Morisset’s recent work, the “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” video blends the online space’s interactivity with the cinematics of film, all packed in to a fi
We’re throwing a party in San Francisco on March 8, with DJ sets from Tim Sweeney of DFA Records and the Beats in Space podcast, and Noel Heroux of Hooray for Earth. We’ll also be crosspollinating with some of New York City’s best new indie and experimental games. Hemisphere Games – Osmos – MULTIPLA
Over at Slate, Juliet Lapidos described what she learned from catching up with Woody Allen’s entire filmography, the themes that effect every character in the Allen-verse, and the pressure of constant production. If there’s one thing that’s wonderful about bodies of work, it’s seeing the threads tha
It looks to be a happy Valentine’s Day for almost everyone except Zynga. Here’s this morning’s news: -Obsidian is looking into funding “old school” games through Kickstarter. –Minecraft will not be coming to the Playstation Vita, Resistance definitely will. -The Binary Domain demo is released today
Time to catch up with this afternoon’s cheat sheet, here’s the rest of today’s news: – Nintendo has added video codec company Mobiclip to their arsenal. – David Jaffe has said that there are “no plans at all” to continue the Twisted Metal franchise after he leaves Eat Sleep Play. – The narrator from
It looks as though media artist Jayne Vidheecharoen has improved upon the idea behind Bandai’s Tuttuki Bako. Her Portals project allows you to stick your hand in the TV set and manipulate what’s on the screen. What’s more, when the Portal box is connected to the internet, multiple users located all
The Cat that Got the Milk, a free to play indie game by The Button Experiment, looks like an abstract expressionist painting but gives it some action. Every level looks and feels like a play through of a Mondrian or Kandinsky painting. The 18 levels, movement (up and down), and 15 minutes on averag
While lots of Apple patents receive plenty of buzz, today’s item has iPhone users and presumably everyone in the modern age particularly excited. The tech behemoth has issued a patent application for a 3D eye-tracking interface that can be used with a variety applications such as digital photography
One of the reasons we watch sports is to witness the seemingly unreal made manifest — the half-court shot with no time left, the diving catch by an outfielder. This isn’t always easy to pull off in videogames, but titles like Soulcalibur V attempt to do just this by giving players full control over
One of minds that worked on games like Glow Artisan has launched a new twist on rock, paper, scissors called Hexagonal Rochambeau. While the name sounds complicated, the game play as not. I spent the weekend playing my girlfriend with lovely results and only a couple odd looks from by-standers on t
It’s been a hectic weekend, folks. Here’s an update on the weekend’s news. -A Japanese Konami office either caught on fire or they forgot to take the cookies out of the oven. -Due to a power outage, Valve (and all Steam clients) were downed temporarily. -Namco Bandai are working on a new Star Trek g
