Monday, April 28, 2008

While I Climb Out from Under a Mountain Of E-Mail...

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... that those I that argued the Open Source Boob Project I blogged about previously was a tempest in a teacup and that no way would it sp...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Breasts, Geeks, Sci-Fi Cons, Creeps, Open Source, and Livejournal: The Perfect Storm

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This past week, at the noted science-fiction convention Penguincon, Star City Games employee and erstwhile livejournal blogger theferrett ...
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Friday, April 18, 2008

Polybius Lives?

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Last year, I linked to a cool project-- dedicated arcade gamer nerds took the urban-legend game "Polybius", and made it a reality ...
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D(ewey) D(ecimal) Revolution

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Los Angeles libraries offer video games to kids -- Over half of the LA public libraries are offering video game nights to encourage kids to...

Gotta Quit Pall Malls, Smokémon!

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From DS Fanboy comes a tale of trading one habit for another, and how a gamer pulled it off-- he traded cigarette smoking for playing Pokemo...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Hands Free 3D, or: How to Control Second Life In Your First Life

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Second Life investor Mitch Kapor has a new project in his lab: creating hands-free, 3D navigation for Second Life using a 3D camera that tra...

Second Life on an Apple II (sorta)

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This video shows one enterprising programmer managing to squeeze a session of Second Life, an experience that can tax the most demanding of ...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Holy Crap! HOmestar Runner Game To Be Released On The Nintendo Wii!

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The above concept art by Strong bad. Yes, your dreams of a Homestar Runner video game have now come true! The WiiWare/PC game "Strong B...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

World Cyber Games Committe Picks 2009 Host City

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The World Cyber Games (WCG) today announced Chengdu, China as the WCG 2009 Grand Final host city for the world's largest and most presti...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Crayon Physics Comes To A Browser Near You!

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It looks simple: A child's crayon scribblings on a piece of graph paper. The goal sounds simple: You play the game by moving the red ba...

Gamespot Steals Content, Gets PWNED

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Danny "Sardius" Cowan compiles a weekly feature for gaming industry news site Gamasutra called "Release This!" which com...

Heart of A Lion? Check. WIngs of a Bat? Double check.

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Strong Bad's favorite glam metal band, Limozeen, played a club in Atlanta for reals over the weekend. Here's a taste of "Becaus...

So You Wanna Be A Video Game Writer?

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" One question I'm asked all the time is: What do I have to do to become a game writer? Well, at last I'm going to tell you. Ar...

EA: You'll Pay Us More MOney For Less Ice Cream

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Libr'ul commie puppy eating cartoonist and weblogger August Pollak is pretty hot under the collar about EA's recent plan to charge ...

Now who would win in a fist fight: Sam Kennedy or Master Chief?

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A recent issues of Popular Mechanics tackled an interesting video game question: Just how "realistic" is the weaponry in so-caled ...

In-Gamw Ways To Turn Abusive Gamers Into Bugs Instead of Features

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Bill Fulton, a former Microsoft developer writes about the need for instituting features into games that discourage players from acting lik...