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Joe Sabia’s quick TED Talk on technology’s influence on storytelling skips over videogames. Obviously this isn’t the first time it’s happened, videogames are often not very respected as a storytelling medium, but they should at least garner a mention. Even when the games themselves don’t have magnif
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Over at PC World, Benj Edwards has made an argument supporting piracy, not just because it is the popular thing to do but because it preserves our cultural history. The article analyzes how obsolescence and medium shifts have lead to software’s short halflife. Pirates have kept alive several of thes
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Probably! Or anything that give you some temporal separation from what you’ve just created. Wired reported on a study that used a videogames to create an artificial buffer between the time ideas were generated and the time they were evaluated: 112 university students were given two minutes to come u
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Why does everyone rush through games, anyway? Sometimes it seems like it’s too much “On to the Next One” and not enough “Never Change,” to put it in terms of Jay-Z songs. Luckily for everyone, there’s the new “slow” movement, which basically tells us to stop and look around every once and a while. B
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This past weekend was Art Hack Day and by far, one of our favorite entrants comes from a team of employees from image-sharing community start-up Canv.as. The title is: “aliensthatlooklikeskrillex.tumblr.com” Yes, that’s the title but also the name of the actual tumblr that’s about the game. I know,
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Ken Rolston speaks with a freedom earned from more than three decades designing games. He began his career working on tabletop role-playing games from Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer, and later moved into videogame design, his career capped with The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scroll
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The well-known drinking game Beer Pong originated at Dartmouth College. It was purportedly created by students who wanted to combine a love for table tennis with an equal love for fermented beverages. The sport is still popular on campuses, and players compete annually in the World Series of Beer Po
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With all the HD remakes coming out recently, this is one direction I wouldn’t mind seeing more games head in. – Adnan Agha [Deviant Art via Reddit]
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Arthur Rackham was a talented artist who probably illustrated that beautiful Fairytale book your grandparents keep on their top shelf. His art might also be the reason people get night terrors. If Ruth Miller has her way, you’ll be able to play UNO or Poker with Goldilocks and Rumplestiltskin. Her K
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Last week, we looked at the difficulties of programming languages, and the Atlantic this month comes to us with news on the “hacker education” front with programs like Dev Bootcamp and Hacker School. The idea is simple – short project-based programs aimed at generating real world skills. Writer Joe
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As an antidote to its pollution problems, Milan’s Stefano Boeri is constructing this vertical garden. Called Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest), the buildings when constructed will be home to more than 900 trees and 10,000 sq. meters of forest. Kinda reminds me of something…. -Jamin Warren [via Creat
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Back from the weekend! Here’s the first shot of this week’s mainstream gaming news! – Microsoft says there will not be a new Xbox in 2012. – The Giants win the Super Bowl (according to Madden). – Nintendo Network is going to allow microtransactions, the cornerstone of business models like free-to-pl