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How much money would you skip to not work at Zynga? One developer explains his tough decision.
Shay Pierce was a developer at OMGPOP, creator of the immensely popular Draw Something, and was faced with a dilemma. Now that Zynga had acquired his company, should he join the mothership or stay behind? It was Tuesday night. News of the acquisition had been relayed to me only hours before. On Mond
Indie muse Daniel Johnston’s new iPad game/app/thing features Decemberists, Shins, Yo La Tengo.
Daniel Johnston, Texas indie muse and king of the hand-drawn album cover, has released a new iPad app called Space Ducks to coincide with the release of his new graphic novel. It is, of course, “intergalactic saga of epic proportions that will make you rethink life, death, existence, and your place
Why the Ending of Mass Effect 3 Started a Furor.
During an appearance on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” for the 20th anniversary of his play Angels in America, Tony Kushner let slip a detail of the “very specific sense” he had about what happened to Joe Pitt—one of the play’s central characters that disappears very ambiguously from the story’s end. Ne
Cheat Sheet 3/26: Fez coming soon, Yoshinori Ono is sick, and GAME goes down.
Alright, the Mondays seem to have started wearing off so let’s catch up on the weekend’s news: – Fez, the indie puzzle platformer that has been critically lauded near constantly since it was announced, has finally been officially certified through Microsoft and will soon be making its way on to Xbox
PAUSE: Half-Life meets Uncharted in short film Ruin
While we’re all waiting for the Half-Life movie, Ruin, may give us a taste of what’s in store. The short, directed by Wes Ball, has the same quiet dystopian feel with the added cinematic bravado of the Uncharted franchise.
Goverment and gaming are what we do together that we can’t do alone.
In a talk at TED.com, Jennifer Pahlka discussed the ways that government is thought of, the challenges these conceptions create, and the way that it needs to change. Palka begins by recounting her project which puts coders and designers out of the comfort zone, working to help benefit the government
Are videogames the new job creators? Britain certainly hopes so.
If the latest Call of Duty taught us anything besides the fact that big explosions are still almost as ridiculous as they are awesome, it’s that videogames can make you a ton of money. The United Kingdom recently followed a trend set by other game development-friendly nations like France, Canada, an
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