In an interview with Simon Parkin for Gamasutra, Phil Fish, the creator of the long awaited world-bending indie platformer Fez, talks about his trails and tribulations putting together the game. After the second time we lost our funding and there was the whole divorce with my business partner, and a
Would your rather be playing Minecraft that building your kids a playhouse? Now you can do both. These play spaces by Play Modern not only look like a dwelling in the blocky building game, they can also be broken down and rearranged into different constructions, giving play houses an aura of archite
Gamasutra reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has made one billion dollars. The game launched two weeks ago. The company released a statement saying: Call of Duty as an entertainment franchise has made an indelible mark on popular culture and its broad and continued success is further valida
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From cave paintings to modern pieces occupying galleries today, art has been widely deemed a human creation. But as robots continue to accomplish human behaviors, it comes as no surprise that designers in Japan have come up with the “Senseless Drawing Bot,” a system of two pendulums on an electric s
Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang has been one of my favorites for some time and I loved his retrospective at the Guggenheim a couple years back. He and I share a similar love of gunpowder/blowing things up, only I play videogames to itch that scratch and he does “explosion events” at modern
Lego mad scientist Hans Andersson has built a sudoku-playing machine and a machine that solves Rubik’s cubes out of automated blocks. Now he has outdone himself with a working clock. I have always been fascinated with time and clocks. Time Twister is my first clock invention… Time Twister consists o
LA-based designer Jayne Vidheecharoen has developed a really fascinating Kickstarter proposal to allow you recreate the Hand of God in a digital environment. She writes: More specifically, my Portals will consist of a pair of boxes. Each box has a screen on the front and a gateway on the side where