Every year when February rolls around, Oscar buzz dominates in the realm of the press- try looking for a major news site that doesn’t have predictions and ruminations on the most prestigious of all Hollywood awards shows. In this vein, the Chicago Tribune has a curious piece on what exactly this ye
EyeAsteroids, on view at London’s Trocadero for another two weeks, is $15,000 to build and the first eye-controlled arcade machine. There’s some other vision pun I could make but I’m coming up short……sighted. -Jamin Warren [via Eurogamer]
Big is the new small apparently with big directors turning to “personal films.” George Lucas recently had Red Tails and Francis Ford Coppola has Twixt. Now, Joe Johnston, director of Captain America, has announced that he’s going low-budget for his next film. Eric Vespe from Aintitcoolnews asks why
Last weekend’s Global Game Jam tasked several thousand people across the world with making an entirely new game from start to finish in forty eight hours. This year’s theme was simply a picture of Ouroboros, the snake eating its own tail. From that, the participants managed to make incredibly differ
Hooray! It’s friday! So let’s check in with today’s gaming news and get back to gaming! – Valve has some mystery project and we may be meeting the Pyro soon! – Metro: Last Light has been delayed until 2013. – Bioware Associate Producer Mike Gamble has said that it would be a good idea to hold on to
In an interview about the upcoming film Resident Evil: Retribution, Milla Jovovich summed up the mentality of Hollywood action flicks. In short, it is an awful lot like the mentality of blockbuster games: The whole point is that we want to make every film better than the last one. So we definitely h
It is as inevitable a part of growing up as broccoli or homework, and has been for years in our social circles. Psychologists call it “socioemotional selectivity theory.” Today, we call it “defriending.” While the pruning of our social branches has always gone on, the recent explosion of social ne
Feel good story of the day. Okay. Of a few days ago, when it surfaced on Reddit that a developer of Legend of Grimrock, an upcoming role-playing game similar to Wizardry and Etrian Odyssey, had modified the game per the request of a disabled fan. Here’s the chat from the game’s site: What a kind ges