The Hollywood Reporter has done a survey investigating the ways that people use social media–and how it steps on entertainment. The results are telling. The study discusses the activities people take part in during their every day lives, from frequency and duration of visiting sites like Facebook an
Quint of AintItCool sat down with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, the writer behind the BioShock movie to discuss the film’s ambitions, direction and the struggles of adapting a game into a film. The brief interview is a great peek behind the curtain at the process of writing and adapting as well as a glan
Gretchen Alice over at Film.com has made a few selections for television shows with promise from this year’s pilot season. Every year, the major networks listen to several hundred pitches for new shows and eventually trim down to a few and request scripts. The purpose of every year’s pilot season is
Artists Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans, better known as JODI, have an upcoming exhibition, “JODI: Street Digital,” at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. One of the works featured shows JODI’s connection to videogame modification, Burnout (History of Car Games) (2004–2012) is a collection of
Video I will certainly be watching the beginning of season 5 of AMC’s period piece Mad Men on Sunday. But in the interim, a Choose Your Own Adventure game from the Fine Brothers should tide you over. And much like the original CYOA games, apocalypse looms around ever corner. My fate involved incitin
Simon Flesser of Simogo, the design, music, and creative end of the duo behind a KS favorite Beat Sneak Bandit, shared some of the early sketches of the game. BSB relies exclusively on moving the Bandit on 4/4 rhythms throughout the level and the dribblings give some inspiration behind its Saul Bass
Those hours spent along building games or playing them in your basement? They may not be so bad. Videogames have always received a bad wrap for being antisocial, but in a new essay echoing Jonathan Rauch’s famous 2003 defense of introverts from the Atlantic, Vanessa Quirk argues that being and buil
Despite the recent successful defense of unmarred videogame distribution in Brown v. EMA, Congress is at it again: A new bill has been submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives that will require most video games to include a warning label that states: “WARNING: Exposure to violent video games h