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Indiecade diversity a glimmer of hope in white male culture
Will this be the norm for much longer? In an industry that seems plagued with the underepresentation of any group besides white males, it’s reassuring to read reports of a little diversification. Walking around the show, playing the games, and networking with peers, it was striking how many people
This map is like the XCOM alien invasion world map, but in real life
James Fallows, eminence grise at The Atlantic, has probably never played XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Today, however, he linked to a real-time cyberattacks map made by the security concern Honeypot (FYI a “honey trap” is a dummy server made to look like exploitable by hackers, in order to catch them). It lo
EA Founder: Console gaming to become minor hobby
The founder of Electronic Arts, the amusingly-named Trip Hawkins, predicts a slow decline for console gaming: It’s going to become a smaller market, and it’s going to be more like a hobby market. You look at airplanes. Most of us just want to be a passenger, but there’s a hobby market for people who
The game-inspired art of Uno Moralez
Art that looks like a cross between Super Metroid and Watchmen can’t go wrong, can it? Uno Moralez doesn’t think so, and his art does more than that. Some of his black and white pieces look like higher res renditions of some Commodore 64 adventure games. You can see more of his work here.
New Boyz Noise video turns keyboard clicks into electronic energy.
German electronic producer Boyz Noise’s new video transmogrifies your everyday keyboard into a living breathing, um, person. The spot was co-directed by Patrick Jean, who you might remember, directed the phenomenal short Pixels that had old-school videogame characters invading New York City. – – –
How Ohio State’s marching band paid tribute to the history of games
Ohio State’s halftime show at the game against Nebraska was truly a spectacle to behold: a full ten minutes of their marching band performing video game tributes. I went to Michigan, so understand that praise of OSU is sacrilege, enough to get me burned at the stake in Ann Arbor. Combine an idea fi
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