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The influence of gaming on film directors grows with younger crop of filmmakers.
February 3 saw the wide release of Chronicle, a faux-documentary (in the vein of J.J. Abrams’s Cloverfield) style blockbuster following the story of high schoolers suddenly endowed with super powers. What is maybe most exciting about the big budget project is that the director is a 26-year-old firs
Does Final Fantasy XIII-2’s Historia Crux have a historical precedent?
In Final Fantasy XIII-2, your party traverses the expanse of time and space through a plot device called the “Historia Crux,” which more or less looks like a map that you can jump from time period to time period and dimension to dimension. It’s all very heady, metaphysical stuff that makes no sense
Could Project Fiona breathe new life into PC gaming?
Razer’s Project Fiona is a PC that looks, in its current incarnation, like the love child of an iPad and a Playstation Move-with maybe a dash of PSP thrown in. As a prototype, it has a long way to go, but it’s following current trends to bring portability and motion controls to games you’d normally
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
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