Mainstream videogame news can be a trial to keep up with, so here’s your cheat sheet: –Lady Gaga and Zynga, maker of Farmville, trumpet a new partnership. –Phantasy Star designer’s follow-up 7th Dragon receives a sequel. -Street Fighter motion comic dropping in August. -More Alan Wake on the way. –C
Em did the rad cover for Issue 2 and sent us some of his new work that he did for Our Silent Canvas: Our Silent Canvas – A non-profit multi-media arts collective presents ECHO THE ELEMENTS an evening of new works by four contemporary composers featured within a luminous forest installation created b
Keeping up with mainstream videogame news is tough, so we do the heavy lifting. -Capcom initially rejected Dead Rising and Lost Planet, but creator Keiji Inafune kept on keeping on anyway. -There may be a new console on the desks of people at EA. -Rockstar teams with Verve for new soundtrack featuri
Japanese designer Kunihiko Morinaga did a sweet 8-bit line of women’s clothes for Japan Fashion Week. Designboom has more.: primarily composed of colourful square blocks of diverse fabrics, the clothing can appear relatively conventional from a distance, but at closer range its unusual pattern is re
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We interviewed Carnegie Mellon professor on games as pleasurable experiences: You create games for a reason: to be pleasurable. If it’s not pleasurable, you don’t want it. What happened is that people are realizing that game designers know something special. They have special knowledge which other p
Features: -Authentic game dialogue -Motion detector, so it knows when you’re there and when you’ve left -Pressure sensor, so it knows when you’ve picked it up -Tilt sensor, so it knows when you’ve knocked it over -LED light-up eye -Exaggerated features for extra adorableness [via]
Kuma Games, maker of the Kuma War, will release a new addition allowing you to battle your way through the Abottabad compound to take out Osama. Previously, Kuma had created a mission to kill Saddam and of course, the new Call of Duty: Black Ops has you assassinate Castro. Now, computer game develop