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So What Is A Social Game Anyway?
We often throw around new genre terms in games and much like micro-genres in music, their definitiions aren’t always clear. So there’s the new thing called social games. You may have heard of it. It comprises at least 12% of Facebook’s revenues. But what are they? Raul Aliaga Diaz gives a brief prim
Cheat Sheet 3/6: Adidas sues THQ, Firaxis talks XCOM, and Lionhead announces a new Fable game.
Hey everyone, here’s today’s news: – Adidas has sued THQ for 10 million dollars because they didn’t finish the fitness game based on miCoach. Talk about kicking them when they’re down. – Firaxis games, makers of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, have released a video discussing the game. – Fable devs Lionhead ha
PAUSE: More Than 1,000 Toy Cars Zip Along At Scale Speeds of 240 MPH. Xmas Present?
We want this. Performance artist Chris Burden has an installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that’s right out of FAO Schwartz. This is the same guy who had his assistant shoot himself in the arm during a performance piece, so you know he’s serious. It looks amazing. Via Hyperallergic: M
How One Art Gallery Is Turning Sports Into a Show With Warhol, Avedon and Kubrick.
We had our own sports week last month, because we think they often get the shaft in the realm of thinking about games. Now, a curator named David Little at the Minneapolis Institute of Art is taking the same tack for the art world. Titled “the Sports Show,” it will feature work such as Richard Avedo
Our Bodies, Our Controllers: How Our Skin Might Be the Next Touchpad.
Tired of janky game controllers? Perhaps your forearm or forehead might be more appropriate. Desney Tan and Scott Saponas recently demoed Skinput, their technology that creates an interface using “bio-acoustics” to create touch-sensitive surfaces of our body. It’d be a bit like touching your finger
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