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Cheat Sheet 2/14: The next X-COM, Mass Effect 3’s demo, and the Lego Star Wars license
Always I want to be with you and make believe with you and bring you today’s mainstream gaming news! – Goldhawk Interactive, developers of Cold War/Alien strategy game Xenonauts, have promised a true remake of X-COM. – The Mass Effect 3 demo is out today, best Valentine’s Day ever, right? – Lego has
Gamification can still make you lots of money, businesses say.
Whether or not it’s bullshit, gamification is upon us. A recent article in TechCrunch states that with the help of business and entrepreneurial culture realizing that games can be, well, really addicting, fun, and therefore useful in abetting the cause to hawk more stuff at the consumer, “gamificati
Kickstarter of the Day: Play cards, admire artwork by feminists, of feminists.
Feminist Playing Cards is exactly what it sounds like: the traditional deck of cards featuring feminist musicians, illustrated by talented feminist artists. Does it have to get any more complicated than that? –Josiah Harrist [via Kickstarter]
How Arcade Fire’s music video borrows from and trumps games.
Andy Cush of Wired has an interview with Arcade Fire’s collaborator Vincent Morisset, the multimedia artist behind their music videos. Morisset’s recent work, the “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” video blends the online space’s interactivity with the cinematics of film, all packed in to a fi
We’re bringing NYC’s best indie games to SF for a night!
We’re throwing a party in San Francisco on March 8, with DJ sets from Tim Sweeney of DFA Records and the Beats in Space podcast, and Noel Heroux of Hooray for Earth. We’ll also be crosspollinating with some of New York City’s best new indie and experimental games. Hemisphere Games – Osmos – MULTIPLA
What Woody Allen can teach gamemakers about love, life, sex, and death.
Over at Slate, Juliet Lapidos described what she learned from catching up with Woody Allen’s entire filmography, the themes that effect every character in the Allen-verse, and the pressure of constant production. If there’s one thing that’s wonderful about bodies of work, it’s seeing the threads tha
Morning Cheat Sheet 2/14/12: Zynga lawsuit, Obsidian Kickstarter RPGs, "The Last of Us" and the Binary Domain demo.
It looks to be a happy Valentine’s Day for almost everyone except Zynga. Here’s this morning’s news: -Obsidian is looking into funding “old school” games through Kickstarter. –Minecraft will not be coming to the Playstation Vita, Resistance definitely will. -The Binary Domain demo is released today
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