video An average person creates a “data ghost” of more than 2 gigabytes, the trailer for Ubisoft’s newly announced Watch Dogs tells us. A data ghost is a collection of all the logged data that can be attributed to a person, from medical records to online browsing habits. In aggregate this data can b
Haniya Rae at Guernica looks at the brushwork of an open-source artist named Kynd.Info. I couldn’t help but see Draw Something: Originally, Kynd wanted to mimic Adobe Photoshop brushes so that texture and shading could be emulated. Eventually, he wanted to make “good paintings” with these tools. He
video In a pre-E3 presentation made through Nintendo Direct, the company announced it would be evolving the Wii’s avatar system into an enhanced social network called Miiverse. The demo showed a player being killed in a zombie game, presumably ZombiU, Ubisoft’s updated redesign of last year’s shoote
video Not every new change is revolutionary. In fact most changes tend to be both predictable and not especially dramatic. The demo of Resident Evil 6 featured in Microsoft’s E3 media briefing showed a number of new ideas in the series, including the ability to fall backward and shoot from a lying d
Living up to rumors, Microsoft continued its incremental project of turning the Xbox 360 into the center of a person’s daily entertainment habits. Getting the jump on Apple’s plans for expanding its Cloud service and possibly releasing a television, Microsoft announced a series of new entertainment
The E3 behemoth unleashed its fire-hydrant spray of videgame news: –Forza Horizon announced, offers radio-fueled road trip fantasy. -Ubosoft redesigns last year’s Wii U shooter to include zombies, called Zombi U. –THQ closes San Diego studio behind WWE and UFC games. -Ubisoft gets into egaming with
video As excitement over the newest game announcements building at E3, our friends at Polygon have created a lovely video condensing the history of videogames into 3 ambient minutes. The montage isn’t intended to be a comprehensive list, but it does a wonderful job capturing the series of simple pla
At Microsoft’s E3 media briefing today, Ubisoft announced a new entry in its stealth action series Splinter Cell: Blacklist. The on-stage demo was set on the Iran-Iraq border and showed series’ protagonist Sam Fisher shooting, strangling, and mauling “terrorists” in conveniently de-personalizing hea