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SSX Developers scan NASA satellite images into game world
EA Canada have turned to an unlikely source for help building tracks in the new SSX title; namely, NASA. Data from the Aster Global Digital Elevation Map, a joint project between NASA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade have been uploaded into EA Canada’s Mountain Man level building
PAUSE: Gamers sketch the virtual spaces they grew up in.
The well-walked paths of our childhood leave a lasting impression on us. This seems true of the virtual spaces we moved through too: A new tumblr blog, Mapstalgia, showcases videogame maps drawn from memory. They range in detail from crude to mathematically exacting, but all show a tenderness for th
Independent Games Festival picks a surreal lineup of student games.
The Independent Games Festival, the videogame equivalent to Sundance, except without all the stars, has recognized 13 innovative games made by students last year. These include a game in which you play as a magic moth (Dust), a game about ballroom dancing in outer space (Once Upon a Spacetime), an i
Synthpop music video uses Kinect to dramatic effect.
Synthpop band New Look shot the new music video to their very ’80s single Nap on the Bow using a Kinect motion-capture camera. The results are startlingly creepy and very cool. It looks better in motion, and the song is kind of catchy. I swear! [YouTube] -Jason Johnson
Videogames and Hollywood films threaten Westernization of the East, warns Chinese leader.
It’s tough competing with the supremely cool United States, what with our Hollywood films and sleek videogames. Paramount Chinese leader Hu Jintao has warned his communist party that the proliferation and popularization of American culture, not the American military, was the greatest threat to the
PAUSE: This is your mom on Skyrim.
Simple: get your mom to play Skyrim and record the things she says. Bethesda’s community manager Nick Breckon did just that and the results are amazing. – Lyndsey Edelman [link] [image]
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