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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
Cheat Sheet 2/13/2012: Nintendo’s latest addition to the empire, Twisted Metal’s future, and the greatest fantasy RPG mashup ever?
Time to catch up with this afternoon’s cheat sheet, here’s the rest of today’s news: – Nintendo has added video codec company Mobiclip to their arsenal. – David Jaffe has said that there are “no plans at all” to continue the Twisted Metal franchise after he leaves Eat Sleep Play. – The narrator from
How a media artist can show us a new way to play.
It looks as though media artist Jayne Vidheecharoen has improved upon the idea behind Bandai’s Tuttuki Bako. Her Portals project allows you to stick your hand in the TV set and manipulate what’s on the screen. What’s more, when the Portal box is connected to the internet, multiple users located all
The Cat that Got the Milk is a trip through the world of 20th century art via abstraction.
The Cat that Got the Milk, a free to play indie game by The Button Experiment, looks like an abstract expressionist painting but gives it some action. Every level looks and feels like a play through of a Mondrian or Kandinsky painting. The 18 levels, movement (up and down), and 15 minutes on averag
Apple patent hints at a future of 3D eye-tracking for gaming and beyond.
While lots of Apple patents receive plenty of buzz, today’s item has iPhone users and presumably everyone in the modern age particularly excited. The tech behemoth has issued a patent application for a 3D eye-tracking interface that can be used with a variety applications such as digital photography
