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Game arcades and the "silver market."
Game arcades as social spaces have undergone reinvention, rebirth and resurgence. In Tokyo, it seems that arcades have found a new demographic: seniors. Once the preserve of rowdy teenagers, game arcades in Japan are rapidly becoming the hippest place to hang out for a whole new generation — their g
Cheat Sheet 2/6/12: Valve’s next game, Diablo 3 invites and an insider talks Zynga.
Back from the weekend! I heard something about a giant bowl of cereal? Anyway, let’s hear about some news. – Remember how Valve had a secret TF2 project? Looks like that wasn’t all they were hiding. Here’s some concept art for what may be a new game. – Check your inboxes! 100,000 more Diablo 3 beta
This year’s batch of Best Picture Oscar noms suggest that we want to be anywhere but now.
Every year when February rolls around, Oscar buzz dominates in the realm of the press- try looking for a major news site that doesn’t have predictions and ruminations on the most prestigious of all Hollywood awards shows. In this vein, the Chicago Tribune has a curious piece on what exactly this ye
World’s first vision-based arcade game is sight for sore eyes. (Sorry.)
EyeAsteroids, on view at London’s Trocadero for another two weeks, is $15,000 to build and the first eye-controlled arcade machine. There’s some other vision pun I could make but I’m coming up short……sighted. -Jamin Warren [via Eurogamer]
Coppola, Lucas, and Captain America director going back to small scale. Why don’t games?
Big is the new small apparently with big directors turning to “personal films.” George Lucas recently had Red Tails and Francis Ford Coppola has Twixt. Now, Joe Johnston, director of Captain America, has announced that he’s going low-budget for his next film. Eric Vespe from Aintitcoolnews asks why
Our fave from the Global Game Jam: Growth and destruction in black and white in Mushroom 11.
Last weekend’s Global Game Jam tasked several thousand people across the world with making an entirely new game from start to finish in forty eight hours. This year’s theme was simply a picture of Ouroboros, the snake eating its own tail. From that, the participants managed to make incredibly differ
Cheat Sheet 2/3/12: Valve’s upcoming secret project, Metro: Last Light delayed, and there might be more to your Mass Effect saves
Hooray! It’s friday! So let’s check in with today’s gaming news and get back to gaming! – Valve has some mystery project and we may be meeting the Pyro soon! – Metro: Last Light has been delayed until 2013. – Bioware Associate Producer Mike Gamble has said that it would be a good idea to hold on to
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