After beginning life in 2010 as a humble Kickstarter project with a goal of $15,000, James Swirsky and Kisanne Pajot’s Indie Game: The Movie has finally secured a worldwide release on June 12. The movie will be “powered” by VHX, the very same company behind Kill Screen TV. For $9.95 you can watch it
All good internet comments begin with some variation of, “I shouldn’t even be commenting here.” Fortunately, prolific fantasy novelist and writer of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, R. A. Salvatore, resisted his better instincts and made a series of lengthy posts about the state of 38 Studios in the w
video A Christian company based in California has announced its plans to retell the gospel of Jesus as an episodic Facebook game, Journey of Jesus. Each week the company will release new chapters, pulled straight from the Bible, allowing players to relive the life of Jesus. The company claims the ga
What’s to become of sensitive children who watch naked people having sex on TV? In Hideo Kojima’s case, fame, fortune, and a life-long obsession with moviemaking. In an interview in The Guardian the Metal Gear Solid creator recalls his parents nightly tradition of gathering around the family televis
A new study by Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne shows that teen novels are dramatically more vulgar than videogames intended for teens. Coyne surveyed 40 of the best-selling teen novels and found 88% of them (35 books) included profanity. Only 34% of teen videogames included objectiona
As part of the 15 year anniversary of the Resident Evil series, Capcom is partnering with Zepp Live Entertainment to put on a live haunted house in an abandoned Japanese hospital. Zepp specializes in creating real experiences were audience members must find their way out of a real world location wh
Ray Kurzweil is fond of comparing DNA to human source code. A group of researchers at Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering have devised a way to use that source code to store write and erase new data into DNA based on some of the simplest principles of binary coding. The process uses an enzyme ad
Today’s forecast calls for torrential downpours of videgame news. -38 Studios and Big Huge Games rumored to have laid off entire staff. –J.S. Joust “clone” removed from App Store. -Blizzard delays real money auction house for Diablo III another week. -UK Prime Minister David Cameron spends “a crazy,