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The Shadow of the Colossus movie has a writer
Well, it looks like we’re going to get a movie based on Team Ico’s last game before we get their next one. Seth Lochhead, who wrote the pretty-good-not-great teen assassin movie Hanna, will write the script, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Josh Trank, who directed the great-great teen superpowe
Some diehards made a beautiful digital magazine for the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy
In honor of the silver annivesary of Hironobu Sakaguchi’s baby, a group of Final Fantasy fansites banded together to create a wonderful tribute: a one-off digital magazine. The project includes retrospectives for each game in the series, profiles of important developers who have worked on the games,
Check out Kill Screen founder’s picks for the month of January on WSJ Live
The fine folks at WSJ Live asked me to walk through my game picks for this month. I chose Spaceteam, Hundreds, and Soda Drinker Pro. No surprises there!
"We couldn’t be less excited about Project Shield. I’d be the most surprised person in the world if it actually takes off in any way."
–Ben Murch, cofounder of Rodeo games, on the just-announced Nvidia handheld.
Apple rejects game based on Syrian civil war
Endgame: Syria, a simulation/strategy game in which you play as the rebels in the two-year-old uprising in that country, has been rejected by Apple for distribution on their app store, according to the game’s makers. A press release from Auroch Digital, Endgame‘s developer, states that the game was
Presenting CREATE: A $45,000 game jam with OUYA
A couple years ago, I was invited by the fine folks at ITU-Copenhagen to give a talk for the Nordic Game Jam. I’d never been to a game jam before and obviously, the chance to get to Denmark was incentive enough, but what I saw was amazing. Aside from the first play session of Johann Sebastian Joust
Otis elevator logistics guru likens job to videogame sim
Theresa Christy has the coolest job in the world. As a mathematician for Otis Elevator company, she’s spent more than a quarter-century tweaking how things go up. She also knows that the longest we’ll wait for a door to close is 20 seconds, Japan has the smoothest rides, and the average American rid
2012’s 10 best ways to avoid doing work, err I mean HTML5 games
You know that annual study that quantifies how much money is lost through hours of unproductive worktime during March Madness? Well, I’ve got news for the bosses of the world: browser-based gaming is the final frontier of workplace time-wasting. It’s not enough that we’ve got browser-based SNES emu
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