Mainstream videogame news can be a chore to wade through, so we’re here to help: –Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson mulls a real world conference. –Downloadable games for the 3DS are delayed. -Is Facebook gaming on the brink of a crash? -Entertainment Software Ratings Board quietly begins new
David Braben, best known for the Rollercoaster Tycoon, has created a pint-sized wrist computer for the developing world. To work the system, all one needs to do it plug a USB-based keyboard and mouse setup into the USB 2.0 port on the opposite end of the Pocket PC’s HDMI port. Additional storage co
Researchers at the Primate Research Institute in Kyoto have been testing the limits of chimp’s self-awareness by seeing if they can play games. One aspect of the self is known as self-agency – the feeling that we each control our own actions. To see if the ability existed in chimpanzees, humanity’s
The title is emblematic of the lack of thought put into One Single Life. It’s redundant, for one. Was “Last Final Life” taken? Its two central ideas are borrowed from better sources. One Single Life is about jumping from one roof to another. While it emphasizes singular bounds over fast-paced parkou
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The Economist dives into what’s made LEGO so successful as of late. No surprise that it’s games that are making a different for the Danish company: Small wonder Lego’s profits are “extremely satisfactory”, as Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, the chief executive, put it last month. After nearly going under eig
For our Intimacy issue, writer Jason Johnson explored the world of Love Plus+ and Japanese suicide. New Hampshire Public Radio brought Jason on to talk about the issue. In 2009, the Japanese government reported more than thirty thousand suicides, though the World Health Organization puts the number
A biomedical engineering student who mods old videogame equipment has a new project: I am prototyping, designing and assembling a special cartridge called Chip Maestro which can be used in any Nintendo Entertainment System. This cartridge will accept a MIDI input from any instrument, and by passing
Mainstream videogame news can be a trial to keep up with, so here’s your cheat sheet: –Lady Gaga and Zynga, maker of Farmville, trumpet a new partnership. –Phantasy Star designer’s follow-up 7th Dragon receives a sequel. -Street Fighter motion comic dropping in August. -More Alan Wake on the way. –C
Em did the rad cover for Issue 2 and sent us some of his new work that he did for Our Silent Canvas: Our Silent Canvas – A non-profit multi-media arts collective presents ECHO THE ELEMENTS an evening of new works by four contemporary composers featured within a luminous forest installation created b
Keeping up with mainstream videogame news is tough, so we do the heavy lifting. -Capcom initially rejected Dead Rising and Lost Planet, but creator Keiji Inafune kept on keeping on anyway. -There may be a new console on the desks of people at EA. -Rockstar teams with Verve for new soundtrack featuri
Japanese designer Kunihiko Morinaga did a sweet 8-bit line of women’s clothes for Japan Fashion Week. Designboom has more.: primarily composed of colourful square blocks of diverse fabrics, the clothing can appear relatively conventional from a distance, but at closer range its unusual pattern is re
We interviewed Carnegie Mellon professor on games as pleasurable experiences: You create games for a reason: to be pleasurable. If it’s not pleasurable, you don’t want it. What happened is that people are realizing that game designers know something special. They have special knowledge which other p
Features: -Authentic game dialogue -Motion detector, so it knows when you’re there and when you’ve left -Pressure sensor, so it knows when you’ve picked it up -Tilt sensor, so it knows when you’ve knocked it over -LED light-up eye -Exaggerated features for extra adorableness [via]
Kuma Games, maker of the Kuma War, will release a new addition allowing you to battle your way through the Abottabad compound to take out Osama. Previously, Kuma had created a mission to kill Saddam and of course, the new Call of Duty: Black Ops has you assassinate Castro. Now, computer game develop
Inspired by Minecraft, Etsy seller Laketide is offering this adorable little grass cubes for hearth and home. The cube is just over 2.5” on each side, and sealed with 6 coats of clear lacquer to help keep it durable. It isn’t intended as a toy, but I think these look really nice sitting on my desk.
Mainstream videogame news can be a chore to wade through, so we’re giving you a hand. –Naughty Dog’s Amy Hennig thinks Uncharted movie shouldn’t be “too literal.” –Here’s a primer on the new game Rage from id Software, creator of DOOM & Wolfenstein 3-D. -The LA Times meets Rockstar’s LA Noire with a
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Bill Gates is looking at games as a way to increase the effectiveness of education. There have been several notable game x education projects such as Quest 2 Learn, who was profiled in the NY Times Magazine last year. Three of the lucky fundees below. $2.6 million for iRemix, which is being develop
We take a look at Petri Purho, creator of Crayon Physics Deluxe, and his life as a magician: Petri Purho’s career as a magician began early. “I’ve been doing magic as long as I can remember. Instead of toys I would play around with my father’s magic props. I ended up doing my first live performance
This is exciting. That means things like Cory Arcangel’s upcoming Whitney show “Pro Tools” or the work of Feng Mengbo (above) could see some new funding sources. Gamasutra reports: The National Endowment for the Arts, a U.S. government agency that offers funding for art projects and exhibitions, is
