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Over in LA-LA land, movie and television composers are taking a break from their linear narratives and CGI explosions to score, well, the slightly less linear narratives and, er, CGI explosions of videogames. Money quote: “The score will never play the same way twice,” Tyler says. “I like to watch p
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EA’s long-running basketball series has conceded the ring to NBA 2K13 for the season. Some tips to get back in shape: 1. Less time at Score’s. 2. Train with 2K13. Did you see how KD got in the gym with Bronbron this summer? The Lanklien knows to beat the best, you have to act like his homeboy durin
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A new dungeon crawler on the 3DS eShop, The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave, has players collecting their warriors, er, Denpa men, from different wi-fi hotspots as an AR feature. The different Denpa men have personalities that bring Dwarf Fortress to mind. Philip J Reed reviews the game at Nintedo Life
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The job of a producer has always mystified me a little, since the thing they’re producing is more abstract than code or art. Producers oversee the development process and act as a go-between for development teams and publishers. The role of a producer can change depending on the studio, but generall
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After Eric Graff’s Xbox account was stolen, he found the thief trying to sell it at Forum Korner. He confronted the thief and called Xbox customer support, and he still doesn’t have his account back. Jason Schreier at Kotaku reports: Eventually a ForumKorner moderator closed the thread and banned In
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Vice made the web series Eye For An Eye to market Dishonored, a game about sweet, sweet revenge. As part of this marketing campaign, Vice showed documentary footage of street violence and violence prevention group CeaesFire’s attempts to resolve conflicts peacefully. The web mini-series interviewed
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The LA Review of Books has a trenchant piece today from the novelist Adam Wilson about the way Louie appeals to the new generation of young men and women, swaddled in their beds, watching TV on laptops and tablets. It is a show that, more than any other, both caters to this new kind of audience — t
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A fundraiser to benefit the family of Sean Smith, the influential EVE Online player and foreign service officer killed this month in Libya, has raised more than $100,000. In case you missed it, the Christian Science Monitor ran a really interesting piece about the parallel diplomatic world Smith hel
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SB Nation gives us several thousand more words than we thought we needed on the tournament and PC gaming love-in in Dallas: The bring-your-own-computer room was dark and cold. The open room spanned more than 25,000 square feet, with about 2,800 people divided among dozens of rows of computers. Some
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Double Dragon instantly conjures the 1980s. But part of the charm of 80s media is how unaware of its own awfulness it was. Taking the 80s out of Double Dragon and doing an HD remake of it just makes it worse. Mitch Dyer at IGN felt strongly that Double Dragon: Neon was too much like playing in an ar
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Paige Johnson at Playscapes dug up some bizarre playground designs from Czechoslavakia in 1960. In searching for more information on the intriguing satellite-inspired play structure by Zden?k N?me?ek featured at the MoMA Century of the Child exhibition I found some fascinating references to a play
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Terrible news in the leadup to the robot wars: megacorp Google announced plans to fund radical life extention, cryogenics, and nanotechnology, and California legalized robot cars. I know ways to defeat the robots and I know places to hide from their steel prongs, but I’m Sarah Connor and you’re not.