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The Indie Talks: An indie Dream Team goes for gold in fishing Ridiculous Fishing.
It’s never a good idea to have too many cooks in the kitchen. Just ask the Miami Heat, or the Wu-Tang Clan. Okay, admittedly, those two examples make it sound perfectly rad. In fact, so does Ridiculous Fishing. When four superstar indies came together to turn a primitive PC game about shooting fish
It’s here. We made Downton Abbey: The Gathering so you didn’t have to.
Trussed-up telenovela Downton Abbey, an Edwardian-set import, has captured this nation’s hearts and imaginations with its savvy combination of icy British subtlety and hot-blooded American-style romance. And much like your average everyday card-based RPG, the show often stages the fall of fiefdoms a
Kickstarter of the Day: A space opera that’s faster than light.
Matthew Davis & artist/designer Justin Ma have taken their talents to build the IGF-nominated Faster Than Light. But now they need your help to finish the project once and for all. They explain: Many games have tackled the goal of recreating the feeling of space operas, but few have focused on the
How important is the public reaction to your art?
I think I might be the only person who genuinely enjoyed Lulu, last year’s Metallica/Lou Reed joint album. Lots of people were upset with how the album was basically a latter-day Lou Reed album with Metallica fucking around in the background, but once you get past your preconceived notions of what t
Cheat Sheet 2/27: The next Resident Evil, more Borderlands 2 classes, and the Be Mine bundle
And with Monday winding down, here’s today’s gaming news: – Pokémon White 2 and Black 2 have both been announced as the next Pokémon games. – Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is coming out March 20th for PS3 and Xbox 360, but PC fans will have to wait until May. – Borderlands 2 has released de
Junot Díaz is writing another book and we’re psyched.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is certainly one of the coolest, most bizarre books ever to win a Pulitzer-it seemed like you needed to take constant trips to Wikipedia to understand the whole thing if you didn’t have a working knowledge of Lord of the Rings, Dungeons & Dragons and also Latin A
When will we see a great biographical game?
Writing biography is hard. Basically, you have to learn about every single part of a person’s life and then filter out the boring stuff, which must be maddening. In a recent interview with The Millions, Scott Donaldson, who’s written biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Earnest Hemingway and Winfield
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