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
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
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
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
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
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.
The worker-placement board game The New Science lets you play as one of five legendary scientists. Each turn requires dividing three action tokens between research, experimentation, or publishing. Players can learn about scientists’ conflicting motivations, and pretending to be Issac Newton sounds p
Over at Edge, a terrific look inside the development of 2010’s sad, funny, unforgettable indie smash, Limbo. The big quote, from creator Arnt Jensen: “I really enjoy getting rid of everything to see what works,” he says. “It should be working when it’s very naked and there’s nothing – no music or an