James Franco is understandably upset that his co-star’s work is not being recognized. In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Andy Serkis plays Ceasar, the leader of the Ape rebellion and central character of the film. Franco argues that Serkis’s performance is aided but not defined by the technology tha
Get excited! It’s time for more mainstream gaming news! – Steam has a mobile app on both iOS and Android. Get rid of your phone or your credit card if you want to keep eating. – Nintendo is taking another stab at this “online gaming” thing the kids are talking about with Nintendo Network. President
Amy Lombard is a Brooklyn-based photographer who’s started a new Kickstarter project to document the life of people who shop at Ikea. The above boy and his Xbox are recent captures: To elaborate a little more on the project – As a photographer, I am not necessarily interested in staging reality so t
This is just insane. Makers of MLB 2K12 and MLB: The Big Show take note: The team will host a party for 500 people on an infield that features a bar, a full-service grill, an oyster bar and a dessert stand. A 12-foot screen will protect the party attendees from errant line drives and any advances
Last night and last night only, the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium here in New York hosted independent gaming collective Babycastles for an evening of gaming and science. The sold out event, entitled Cosmic Cocktails and Space Arcade, included access to the exhibit, Be
John Pavlus at FastCoDesign jumps into a new study that looks at the obtuseness of programming languages like Perl. The problem, according to the study, is these coding languages are “so ridiculously opaque that, from the perspective of a novice programmer, a string of characters bashed out by a mon
French toy retail Artoyz opened their new exhibition yesterday dedicated to Raving Rabbids of, well, Raving Rabbids fame. Geek Art has more photos.
Silent protagonists such as Link from The Legend of Zelda are often seen as stubborn holdouts from the primitive days of videogamesChaplinesque mimes who’d be better suited for a silent film than modern media. But as described by John Lahr at Culture Desk, silence can be golden. The success of “T