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Gaming > B-School?
Ever wanted to learn how to run a competitive business without the whole Business School thing, or even have to face the pesky task of having to leave your home? Well boy howdy, have we got a game for you! It’s called “Platform Wars,” and it was developed by MIT’s Sloan School of Management, placing
Models want to look virtual. Videogame models want to look real.
While art direction in big budget games is largely a race towards the photorealism, it seems that the fashion world would like to be virtual. The clothing retailer H&M has admitted that their lingerie models are too good to be true. “It’s not a real body; it is completely virtual and made by the com
FarmVille maker Zynga: your friendly neighborhood drug dealer?
Zynga’s reputation preceeds itself at this point. Creator of the successful FarmVille and CityVille, which have seeped into our lives thanks to the ubiquity of Facebook, and relatives who don’t realize that sending requests for help in FrontierVille is annoying. In a new video up on Bloomberg examin
PLEASE MAKE THIS: ESCAPE the marshmallow fluff
This is the direct sequel to last year’s sleeper hit “Actually, Let’s Cross the Streams.” It’s essentially a giant Chinese finger-trap, but instead it’s just a person covered in marshmallow fluff. Top leaderboard time clocked in at 35:29 before total diabetic shock kicked in. [video: crazyj1897]
Can games become uncreative?
Bookforum recently made a list of the best books in the emerging remix culture, including a write-up of a book called Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age by Kenneth Goldsmith that speaks to a lot of concepts that can carry over to gaming. Here’s the description of the book: Gold
PAUSE: Desolate pictures of the ruins of China’s Wonderland are a fitting elegy for public play.
Alan Taylor’s photo blog on The Atlantic has some gorgeous and elegiac photographs from Wonderland, an abandoned theme park in China. From Taylor’s description: Construction work at the park, which developers had promised would be “the largest amusement park in Asia,” stopped around 1998 after disag
Here’s how to play charades on Twitter.
Facebook has games. Why can’t Twitter? Andrea Phillips has posted a rulebook for playing charades in 140 characters or less. In case you are wondering how exactly you do play a game about pantomiming on a platform that is interfaced through a keyboard, the trick lies in hyperlinks. When you are on s
SCREENSHOT OF THE DAY: LOVE and War
I love the look of Eskil’s LOVE because it answers one of life’s fundamental questions for me: what’s it like to be inside a watercolor painting that shoots at you? More screenshots at the link below. [img: quelsolaar]
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