Rip Off is such a great game. Hard time choosing between it and Major Havoc for the pic…
A youth wasted on video games unexpectedly paid off for me in an assignment to profile the old dogs behind the newest gaming company: Innovative Leisure
Record dramatic images of war, save them in-game, then edit the results into a compelling frontline TV news story. Beam the results to global audiences on the web. No two WARCO stories will ever be alike. It’s an edge-of-seat gaming experience – and a powerful entry-level training tool for future combat reporters. WARCO is perfectly timed to take advantage of the convergence of games and movies, journalism and online communities, in a world undergoing massive social, geo-political and technological change.
The Evolution of Video Game Controllers by Pop Chart Lab, featuring “119 species and 11 genera over seven decades of gaming”.
Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews raised over $15k in preproduction costs on Indiegogo for their movie about Dungeons and Dragon players, called Zero Charisma.
Link: Trailer for Zero Charisma – a movie about D&D players – Boing Boing
In June 2009, Zynga came out with the app that would make it a household name among social-network users. While the company had already enjoyed some success with its earlier offerings, FarmVille was a blockbuster hit. But for those with eyes to see, it bore remarkable similarities to a precursor.
That precursor, Farm Town, was developed by a little-known Florida company called Slashkey. It featured a number of clever gameplay mechanics, chief among them real-time crop growth that requires players to regularly return to the game to tend their farms. Zynga’s version, launched months after Slashkey’s, would likely be indistinguishable to most players.
Link: FarmVillains – SF Weekly
CLICK NOTE: Lost track of who first posted this. Thanks to the source, whomever you were.
Start as a columnist for a local newspaper and end up as an international reporter, heading your own TV show
Get your own press pass
Have fun with the full range of journalists’ accessories: notepad, handheld recorder, mic, camera
Catch your first scoops by bike and end up travelling in style by helicopter!
Link: Play.com (UK) : Imagine: Journalist (DS/DSi) : Nintendo DS – Free Delivery
Flidby, Hench77, Ratbanjos, RYCART1, S3R4F1N0W1C2 and triggerhappydom play a secret level designed by Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks…
Link: Call of Duty: Secret Spielberg Level Unlocked from FoD Team UK – Video
Link: Cyberball Robot Player’s Union Says Lockout Likely In 2073 Season – America’s Favorite News Source:
“I am unable to detect any gratitude from owners of magnesium wide receivers and titanium running backs who continually execute, on command, motion-based operations with a 350-pound explosive ball. I honestly cannot believe my proximity sensors.”
Link: Touch me I’m slick: Daniel Johnston rolls toward Laurie in Hi How Are You | Offworld:
if you don’t need that introduction1, then you probably will have by now had the same reaction I had several months back when I heard whisperings that Peter ‘Dr. Fun Fun’ Franco and Steve ‘Smashing Studios’ Broumley — former art and technical director, respectively, at the now-defunct Austin branch of Midway — were working on a game featuring Daniel Johnston’s art and music: I’ve more or less been waiting for this day since the early 90s.
