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Want to make games based on Adventure Time? This year’s 48-hour Gamemaking Frenzy is for you.
Austin’s Fantastic Fest adds an annual game jam to their programming. This year’s theme will be Pendelton Ward’s Adventure Time.
EA: No more single player games
Gamespot reports: Electronic Arts has no plans for any single-player-only games from its studios, according to EA Labels president Frank Gibeau… “I have not green lit one game to be developed as a single-player experience,” Gibeau said. “Today, all of our games include online applications and digita
Miyamoto meets Mies van der Rohe: 8-bit minimalism
A new exhibition at Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art, 8-Bit Modern, plays with the simple iconography of early videogames. The artist, Michael Whiting, sees his 8-bit art in the context of the early minimalists: Video gaming and minimalism arrived at the same visual conclusion through differ
Gerard Butler, Ellen Page hook up in Cormac McCarthy tribute to Uncharted
Or so it seems from these fifteen minutes of unshaven dilly-dallying in Naughty Dog’s postapocalypse. 300 meets Juno meets the Road! I guess at some point King Leonidas will beat a cannibal senseless with a hamburger phone, just not in this video.
Minecraft will clean up your crappy neighborhood
Minecraft developer Mojang announced yesterday a new project that aims to use the game as a tool to visualize urban redevelopment projects: “Block by Block” aims to involve youth in the planning process in urban areas by giving them the opportunity to show planners and decision makers how they would
"In 2012, more dollars have been pledged to [Kickstarter] Games projects than to any other category."
The Kickstarter blog has the story.
