May 2012
12 posts
“Two-player games can take days between turns or play out in near-real time, and...”
– Frozen Synapse: After Enraging Retakers, A New Expansion Pack - Forbes
Poseable Pioneers: MakieLab's 3D-Printed Challenge... →
A doll made to your or your child’s specifications, which can be programmed and reprogrammed to interact in new ways, and teach new things, from month to month. It’s a futuristic hallucination of a toy - the huge-eyed offspring of Barbie and Furby, or Teddy Ruxpin after a traumatic night with a digital Gepetto and an electric razor.The author Neal Stephenson came up with the idea of...
“We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable. That leave you with the...”
– Jonathan Ive (via dbreunig)
I don’t think is supposed to sound sinister.
“At the end of the day, you have choice A or choice B. In choice A, Britain can...”
– Eric Schmidt, at Big Tent UK
“Strictly speaking, since it has also created the world, and the means by which...”
– http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2012/05/22/diablo-iii-hacking/#
“..Now, I just wish you guys would also get this upset when people use the word...”
– Changing Games: Esports Faces Up To New Realities On Race? - Forbes
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– Digging the Figures: Xbox Minecraft Breaks Sales Records - Forbes
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– CD Projekt Red’s CEO On Being Poland’s Number 1, The Witcher 2 And Mass Effect 3 - Forbes
When Obama endorsed same-sex marriage...
whenobamaendorsed:
… wedding planners were all:
BioShock Infinite's Delay: Ayn Rand, Grand Thefts... →
In essence, BioShock explored the question of what would happen if a group of brilliant scientists and industrialists decided, Atlas Shrugged-style, to create a perfect community, and came to the logical conclusion – the society would collapse from ruthless exploitation by alpha predators at one end and a lack of plumbing skills at the other.
“Insert your own HULK SMASH witticism here, but the news from Disney is...”
– Ants and Avengers: The Avengers Smashes Box-Office Records - But What Happens Next? - Forbes
April 2012
9 posts
“I was going to be injecting myself with insulin. I wasn’t going to be able to...”
– Myself, quantified | Extenuating Circumstances
justsayins: This needs to stop...and let me tell... →
justsayins:
Okay. Guys. Guys. Two things.
1) I’m a martial artist. I’ve been studying since I was seven. I wouldn’t even hesitate to say that I’m good at it. I have done work as a fight choreographer for film, and I am trained in stage combat as well.
2) I’m a contortionist. Yes. Again, since…
“The rain is starting to pelt down onto the scrubby trees of a square of London...”
– Augmented Reality and Elf Rights: The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition’s Transmedia Launch - Forbes
FRuiTDooM - Doom, 21/12/00
readmedottxt:
FRuiT invades DooM… See for yourself! Ever wonder what it would feel like to launch apples at your friends? Ever had the overwhelming urge to stuff pineapples in your rocket launcher? Now all this and more is possible with FRuiTDooM! Watch imps throw peaches and Cacos shoot oranges! Pick up strawberries to gain health! Don’t miss this fruity experience!!
ze's page :: zefrank.com: an invocation →
Etsy To Fund "Hacker School" Grants For Women -... →
Total sales through Etsy since its founding in 2005 passed the $1 billion mark on October 22 of last year – not a patch on a merchant monolith like eBay, but showing steady progress in a niche market. In the process it has spawned a community, a number of protests around changes to its design and business model, and at least one meme site, Regretsy, which collects and displays the most baffling...
People on the Internet Can Be Hella Racist |... →
The crazy thing is, I’ve actually never been called a “n*****” in real life, you know like to my darkie face. […]
In the online world however, which is where most of my social life resides, the word is tossed about as freely as it was in the 50s and 60s, before the Internet even existed. Users hide comfortably behind their computer screens and type the most obnoxiously...
March 2012
5 posts
“Reports from the ever-expanding Mojang empire reveal that revenues, driven by...”
– The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Voxels - Forbes.com
Puke Launcher! - Doom, 6/4/96
readmedottxt:
This is a graphix patch for either Doom or Doom II. It replaces the rockets that the rocket lancher shoots, to GOBS OF PUKE!!! YES!!!!!!! The puke that flys out of yer rckt launcher isn’t any ordinary barf, it’s acid puke! Aaaahhh!! So watch out! THIS PATCH IS GREAT FOR DEATHMATCH! I also replaced 4 of the sounds!! This patch is AWESOME MAN!
Anyone listen to death metal? If you...
“Following the wire, I found that it was plugged into a laptop. One swallow does...”
– Bigger, Faster, Moore - Looking Into the Post-PC Era - Forbes
“Traditionally, there have been three stories about professional gaming – or...”
– Sex and the Street Fighter: Pro Gaming’s Image Problem - Forbes
February 2012
11 posts
“It is a truth universally recognised that, once you start putting out press...”
– GAME Group Fights for Survival in the UK - a Harbinger for Main Street? - Forbes
“If one can wade through the abuse and terrible grammar, it turns out that,...”
– The Changing Face of Games: Feeling Angry and Ignored, Fans Look for Someone to Blame - Forbes
Games for 2012: Dear Esther, Art and Indie Inward... →
But back to the game, or the lack thereof. There are no fights, no thrills and no enemies. Even the jump button, used by impatient players to speed across the landscape of the original release in an atmosphere-breaking series of bunny hops, has been removed. The dominant action of Dear Esther is trudging. Trudge into a cave, and your character will duck automatically. Trudge into a building, and...
SOPA, meet SOCA - British Police Take Down Pirates... →
The music industry can take a slightly impressionistic approach to these losses: in early 2011, the RIAA claimed that the losses caused by the file sharing network LimeWire totalled $75 trillion – that is, more money than the economic output of the entire world.
Comment is free readers on … negative attitudes... →
The day after the tabloids screamed “free BMWs for disabled”, I stupidly left my house to go to the supermarket. Returning to my car, I found a boot-shaped hole had been kicked in the front bumper. I’ve hesitated to display my blue badge since.
“The contestants will each put their heads into a box full of hissing cockroaches...”
– The Tester 3, Episode 1: Unsharted | Game|Life | Wired.com
Fluxtumblr: The Best Songs by the Beetles →
perpetua:
I Want to Hold Her Hands She Says, She Says Why Don’t We Do This in the Road? Norwegian Wool Here Comes the Son Being At A Benefit For Mr. Kite I Saw Her Sitting There Martha, My Deer We Can Work Out Can You Buy Me Love? You Need to Hide Your Love Away Paperback Novel Good Day Sunlight Some Thing A Day In My Life
The Felicia Day moment: how people handle charged... →
The Felicia Day moment is so named from the point where a Twitter argument between the writer Jim Sterling and the multispectrum artist Daphny (coincidentally the partner of the game designer Anna Anthropy) came to the attention of the crossover actress, writer and celebrity - oh, come on. You know who Felicia Day is. She’s Felicia Day.The Guild. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Like that.
January 2012
11 posts
Tower/Heights and Zynga - Heist or High Concept? -... →
Hollywood has made the idea of the high concept it own – an explanation in a single sentence what a film pitch is about. So, “Like ‘Titanic’ – but in space”. “Like ‘Bad Boys 2′ meets The’Agony and the Ecstasy’“. “‘Fear Eats the Soul’ meets ‘Harold and Kumar’, with Edward James Olmos as a fun-loving Vietnam Vet”.
A New Hope - Star Wars reshot in Team Fortress 2,... →
Its hard to know who’d sue first. Possibly Greedo.
SOPA, Skyrim and My Little Pony - Infringement is... →
Perhaps uniquely positioned to appreciate what an empty stable looks like, and thus the logic of bolting its door, Hasbro has largely embraced the phenomenon.
Rupert, Jack, Ashton and the perils of Twitter →
The Music's Over - Dr. Dre's Beats Audio and... →
At this point, it’s traditional for snarky Brits like myself to note that Dr Dre is not an actual doctor. However, I think it’s fair to say that, at this point, Mr Andre Young would find it very easy to secure a doctorate causa honorisfrom a wide range of credible institutions. You might not think that this counts, but it’s worth noting that Doctor Doom, nemesis of the Fantastic Four, was...
Risk and Reward: EA -1 EVP, $1 Digital Billion,... →
“Mainstream games do certain emotions very well – excitement, anticipation, and a...”
– Indie Games Finalists Announced - Lessons for the Big Players? - Forbes
Mainstream games do certain emotions very well – excitement, anticipation, and a cycle of frustration and release, controlled by weapon upgrades and checkpoints, that is not wholly unrelated to the action of milking a cow.
10 Games (and some others) for 2012 - Forbes →
I thought it might be interesting to look at some of the games of 2012. This unborn cornucopia can be assessed on potential, significance, oddity, unwiseness or, stepping onto my soapbox for a moment, importance. So, what are the games to watch in 2012, from a partial and probabilistic perspective?
December 2011
17 posts
Avengers, Controllers and Games PR in the Wild... →
The Christoforo case, and what it says about the unformed rules of game PR etiquette
Go Daddy Retracts Support for SOPA - Forbes →
One thing the United States can truly be proud of is the verbal dexterity of its administrators. In the Senate, SOPA’s precursor was the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act – PROTECT IP. Compared with this, and other hits like USA PATRIOT, DREAM and SAFETY, SOPA looks a little uninspired, especially considering its barnstorming alter ego,...