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Morning Cheat Sheet 2/24/12: PSN maintenance, Indie Games up for download, the "Amnesia" sequel and the financially-minded RTS "BlackSpace" gets announced.
Good morning, sports racers. Here’s just some of the latest in the larger gaming world. -The Playstation Network will be down for a bit on March 1 due to scheduled maintenance—not because of hackers or anything ominous. -The Indie Royale Alpha Collection is now available for download. -PixelFoundry,
A conversation with Syndicate’s producer, writer, and art director on the future.
How will the nation’s wealth be divvied up 50 years from now? If videogames are to be believed (which, for obvious reasons, they shouldn’t, although Madden did pick the Giants to win the Super Bowl by a margin of threejust sayin’), the division will be more drastic in the future than it is today.
A new system for movie-goers hands the narrative over to the viewer.
Think about all the terrible movies you’ve ever watched…it’s probably a pretty long list. All frustrated consumers, rejoice: a new system by UK based company Myndplay has developed a system of software and an EEG-based headset that allows movie viewers to control specially developed films. With thei
One illustrator believes magic has been replaced by machinery. How do we get it back?
Illustrator Shilo Shiv Suleman is worried that technology is prevented the youth to dream, so she made an iPad storybook called Khoya to restore what’s been lost: “In the last 10 years, children have been locked inside their rooms, glued to their PCs. … But now with mobile technology, we can actuall
How movies can look to games to deal with transitioning to digital
In upcoming documentary Side By Side, Keanu Reeves sits down with some of the most important directors working now to discuss technology’s effect on the film industry’s evolution. Discussing the death of film, the transition into digital, the 3D craze and the proliferation of digital filmmaking, Ci
PAUSE: When life hands you lemons, make a pool table out of the earth.
Now that’s a hand-crafted table. – Adnan Agha
Why are television’s male protagonists caught in a stalemate?
As we often find in gaming, some of the most successful television titles feature leading male figures. Caught within a certain world and predicament, everything within the narrative seems to change and evolve…except for themselves. The Atlantic published an essay yesterday on this current phenomen
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