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Most videogames fail.
mikebithell: Make your game for mobile.Make your game for console.Make your game for anything but PC.Make your game for PC first.Make your game free to play.Make your game $60.Make your game $20.Make your game shareware.Make your game on facebook.Make your game appeal to youtubers.Make your game into a gif on twitter.Make your game about a…
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rubberninjers: coastrobbo: theoneandonlysputnick: Cards Against Humanity’s booth at Pax was literally made of cardboard. They were also handing out free condoms to promote their new game “Clusterfuck”. Which is a game about having sex with your friends. Cards Against Humanity is one of the most satirical existential commentary on the human concept of comedy I’ve…
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Google Offers Cheap Storage for Certain Kinds of Data
Google Offers Cheap Storage for Certain Kinds of Data stoweboyd: Google’s long game, in other words, is positioning itself as the cloud computing company for all kinds of data analysis, something that it at the heart of its search engine business. “It’s not about storage, it’s about what you’ll do with analytics,” said Tom Kershaw,…
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One example this week is the reaction to an article by Ian Bogost at the Atlantic. Bogost asks a perfectly intellectual question about the direction of the gaming medium, about whether the focus on characters at the expense of expressive systems was a bad choice. His is a question analogous to any that a literary…
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theverge: One of Adweek’s staff members was swiping through Tinder at SXSW when he matched with Ava, a seemingly normal 25-year-old who turned out to be the love of exactly no one’s life. Ava was a Tinder bot created to promote Alex Garland’s sci-fi thriller Ex Machina, which premiered yesterday at SXSW.
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The iPhone exists, as Mariana Mazzucato demonstrated in her 2013 book “The Entrepreneurial State,” because various branches of the U.S. government provided research assistance that resulted in several key technological developments, including G.P.S., multi-touch screens, L.C.D. displays, lithium-ion batteries, and cellular networks. Jill Lepore in Why Inequality Persists in America for The Atlantic. (via blech)