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Facebook’s IPO last Friday was by a major disappointment by most accounts. The implications of the underwhelming launch had a negative impact on Zynga, whose own IPO in late 2011 was similarly disappointing, closing at a lower price than it launched at. Is there a structural cause connecting the amb
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In an article at Gamasutra, Chris Sutton, art director at Sony Santa Monica discusses the interplay between art and technology at the studio. Rather than keeping the two teams discrete entities, the studio encourages constant communication between the two. Visual aesthetics and technology are “so in
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In its bid to remain at the center of the ever-shifting videogame business, EA announced it will waive all fees for crowd-funded games for 90 days on its PC-based distribution platform Origin. The first confirmed title to take advantage of the offer is Wasteland 2, the sequel to the beloved PC rolep
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As everyone now knows and to every girlfriend’s dismay, Diablo III was released last Tuesday. The internet exploded with cries of server malfunctions and error numbers while anyone that was able to get in to the game secluded themselves from the rest of the world for periods of time likely to bring
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Video Tale of Tales, the game design duo behind The Graveyard, Vanitas, and Fatale, are working on a new game for autumn 2012. The project, Bientôt l’été, is an abstract multiplayer game inspired by French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras. Like their earlier work, Bientôt l’été won’t be about
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“There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. The sentiments seems to be painfully true with athletes migrating from the locker room to the board room. Last week, Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios had to choose between paying its employees for the week or going into default on a
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That, my friends, is a play-doh controller. If you don’t believe me that it works, you can (and should) watch the video here. That was MaKey MaKey. It’s a Kickstarter by two graduate MIT students who look set to blow out our perceptions of what is and isn’t–or can be–a controller. Through an extreme
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Though the trial between Activision and Call of Duty co-creators Jason West and Vince Zampella has yet to begin, pre-trial documents released last week claimed that the publisher tried to hack into the duo’s work computers. Thomas Fenady was Director of IT at Activision in 2009 and in a pre-trial de
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How much would you spend to save the thing you love? For one SNES fan, that would be almost a decade and more than $10,000. A programmer by the name of byuu has dedicated his/her life to recreating the Super Nintendo, but unlike other emulation projects that allow you to play games of old, Byuu a te
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Video Last week, I attended a early screening of Indie Game: The Movie (which I have the privilege to be in!). The film is playing all week at the IFC Center and around the country and is a testament to the awakening of independent game development. HBO picked up the film to convert into a dramatic
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MoMA kicked off Contemporary Art Forum: Critical Play—The Game as an Art Form last night with an overview of critical and artist led play. Here are some quotes from the first session: Mary Flanagan: “Is thinking about games as an art form tied to the historic exchanges specific to art history, or is
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Video Did you ever use a fingerboard as a teen? I did and I’m glad Australian company Penny Skateboards has captured that in a flick-flipping side-scroller called Penny Time, made by IV Motion with a thumping soundtrack from Brisbanite Hunz. It’s somewhere between Bit.Trip Runner and Canabalt, a run