According to this article Rockstar Games’ objections to the ‘Grand Theft Scratchy: Blood Island’ part of Electronic Arts’ upcoming Simpsons game (reported earlier) go beyond some people complaining about a poster at the Games Convention in Leipzig. The satirical reference to GTA is apparently not even a game you play: “The game begins with Bart […]
Double Fine Productions’ next game has been announced. It’s called Brütal Legend, and it’s an action game set in a heavy metal world (hence the umlaut). So you get a little Guitar Hero vibe, a little Tenacious D influence (since the main character is based on Jack Black), plus a good helping of Tim Schafer […]
The king of Saudi Arabia recently visited the UK, which was a historic occasion. Guess what music was played to welcome him? Watch the first 40 seconds of this video. (Via James and the Blue Cat.)
Free-lance game designer/producers Most people think they can design games. Most people think they know what preproductions are for. Most people are wrong. As a consequence, I, as a free-lance game designer/producer, don’t get hired to do game design or manage preproduction. I get hired to fix productions that go wrong because the game design […]
Falko Löffler has posted a mini-rant about the lost genre of submarine simulations. In German. Basically, he doesn’t see the point of simulating a submarine. I do. I don’t like them or play them, but I do see the point. They have one quality which is fairly rare, and it has to do with immersion. […]
I just came across a ton of videos of Ricky Jay performances on YouTube. Ricky Jay is one of the world’s great sleight-of-hand artists, as well as an expert on the history of magic and author of several books. I highly recommend this New Yorker article. A small excerpt: Deborah Baron, a screenwriter in Los […]
Confused by all the changes Sony has been making to their Playstation 3 model line? Chris Kohler made a handy Venn diagram of the PlayStation 3 models and their feature sets. Although I think he left out HDMI? Wasn’t there something retarded where the cheaper PS3s don’t have HDMI out? Because my new TV has […]
Remember LOLCode? There’s now a functioning .Net LOLCode compiler. Debug “IM IN YR LOOP” right inside Visual Studio. (Via Boing Boing Blog.) Update: Craigslist ad for LOLCode developers here. YOU CAN HAS CHEEZEBURGER? YOU HAS A FLAVUR? If so, you may be the right fit for this Midtown Manhattan Web Design Startup! We are a […]
John Scalzi has an amusing (and profanity-laced) post about how not to increase traffic to your blog. It is a response to some blog post with ‘5 Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Blog’ or some ridiculous title like that. I find this interesting for two reasons. One has to do with this quote: […]
I’m sure you’ve heard that J.K. Rowling has outed Dumbledore as gay. I find it amusing, but beyond that I have no strong opinion on the subject. However, there are people over at Making Light who do. The comments there are a good read (to read the ROT13-encrypted comments, try this bookmarklet) and highly informative, […]
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