Month: June 2011

  • According to Eurogamer, the next project for legendary video game developer (and former SXSW keynote speaker) Will Wright will be based on the Bruce Sterling short story “Maneki Neko.” Interviewed at E3 in Los Angeles, Wright tells Wesley Yin-Poole that: “[Maneki Neko] describes a karmic computer that’s keeping a balance of payments between different people,…

  • According to Eurogamer, the next project for legendary video game developer (and former SXSW keynote speaker) Will Wright will be based on the Bruce Sterling short story “Maneki Neko.” Interviewed at E3 in Los Angeles, Wright tells Wesley Yin-Poole that: “[Maneki Neko] describes a karmic computer that’s keeping a balance of payments between different people,…

  • Keeping the lab tidy… First post! Welcome to MakieLab, where we are making toys and games that are designed to talk to each other. Toys and games that interface, toys produced locally and cleanly using emerging tech like 3D printing, and games that reflect the toy owned by the player. A bit of history to…

  • sombreboite: Doug McClintock

  • dinosaurparty: (via Whitney Museum of American Art: Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools) I saw the Cory Arcangel show for a whole 30 minutes (fast art is better than no art…maybe?). As a curator who has a pretty significant investment in the videogame medium, I’d been looking forward to this show, and it’s actually one of the…

  • dinosaurparty: (via Whitney Museum of American Art: Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools) I saw the Cory Arcangel show for a whole 30 minutes (fast art is better than no art…maybe?). As a curator who has a pretty significant investment in the videogame medium, I’d been looking forward to this show, and it’s actually one of the…

  • The court ruled 7-2 in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (Case No. 08-1448) that the state’s attempt to shield young people from violence in video games violates the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said the high court had never permitted government to restrict violent speech directed to…

  • The court ruled 7-2 in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (Case No. 08-1448) that the state’s attempt to shield young people from violence in video games violates the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said the high court had never permitted government to restrict violent speech directed to…

  • I’ve signed a contract with a wonderful publisher — a Penguin imprint called Avery Books — and a sharp and enthusiastic editor named Rachel Holtzman. One of the most thrilling moments of my life as a writer was walking into Penguin headquarters in Manhattan and seeing classic jackets for Jack Kerouac’s novels like The Dharma…