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On April 17th, I am co-organizing the one-day Re:Play 2012 video game conference here at New York University. Re:Play is sponsored by the Media, Culture & Communication Department at New York University’s Steinhardt School for Culture, Education and Human Development in collaboration with the New York University Game Center Ask your average member of the clergy, and they’re likely to see video games as a waste of time at best or, at worst, as a nefarious destroyer of young souls.
The Ludologist
Writings of Mass Deduction
Posted: 2012/03/18 in Indie Games My first “explore the maze, find the key, escape the level” kind of game was Chip’s Challenge on the Atari Lynx handheld. There have been a lot of such games since.
3:00 PM on 04.04.2012 // Conrad Zimmerman So, before Rock Band and Guitar Hero made Harmonix a household name by filling our homes with plastic instruments, the company had been pushing their first music-based games, FreQuency and Amplitude. These were... more
Destructoid.com - For Gamers. By Gamers. *
Wow! Yesterday, we asked our community of friends and fans to see if they could help us translate our App Store display text into some other languages, to help with visibility in international storefronts. The response was HUGE: we have a French translation in our hands already, and we have volunteers committed at least four other languages in less than 24 hours. So, first and foremost, thank you!! That is so awesome.
Semi Secret - Official Blog for Semi Secret Software, Creators of Wurdle and Canabalt
As roughly 50% of the emails to the wheezing RPS inboxotron over the last week will attest to, Rocksteady and Warner have not exactly displayed willing enthusiasm when it comes to the PC edition of Batman: Arkham City. A long- and mysteriously- delayed launch followed by DirectX 11 performance that was about as smooth as stinging nettle moonshine, then the final insult of the eventual patch screwing up many folks’ savegames despite leaving many of the initial problems unresolved. And then, silence. Months-long silence.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Capital letters are amphetamines for the soul
BioWare Blog
Firebase: Hydra — In response to perceived misunderstandings, elite troops from the now-defunct Batarian Hegemony have issued an official dictate making it clear that medigel works normally on their species, and should in fact be used on injured batarian fighters. “We are pleased to join the galaxy in the fight against the Reapers, as well as Cerberus and geth forces,” explained Squad Commander Shar’lak Gurek, spokesman for the insular, xenophobic race that had been preparing for war with the Alliance before falling to Reaper forces. “And to better serve in that fight, we wish to clarify that applying medigel will absolutely help us regain consciousness when we are lying bleeding on the ground.”
UMBC Games, Animation and Interactive Media | Game Development at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Quaternions are an extremely handy representation for rotations. Unfortunately, they fall into a slightly dusty corner of math, so often seem just a little scary. It’s good to understand what they mean, at least for rotations, when it makes sense to them, and when it makes more sense to use rotation matrices. Euler angles occasionally make sense as an interface for specifying rotation, but please convert them to something else as soon as possible!
Video Game News, Updates and Commentary - GiantBomb.com
Commodore International founder Jack Tramiel, 83-years-old, is no longer with us, reports Forbes.The Commodore 64 was before my time, a whole three years before my own existence, but it’s impossible ...
Critical Distance
Editors note: This is the first Critical Compilation we’ve hosted in a long while, and it comes to us from our newest contributor, John Kilhefner. It’s been called visually stunning, a revelation in character writing and the greatest movie ever played. Regardless, the real meat of the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves experience isn’t in the game at all, but in the writing surrounding it. In “ Naughty Dog’s Lemarchand Defines Uncharted ’s Heritage ,” Leigh Alexander examined Naughty Dog’s desire to “capture and reinvent the spirit of the pulp action genre;” the same well from which Indiana Jones sprang.
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High Score 3 on Kickstarter: A Post-Mortem Want to raise money on Kickstarter, and crowdfund your next business or game idea? Here’s what you can learn from High Score 3 creator Rusel...
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