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Gender & Computer Games Literature Bibliography and links. (tags: games gender theory bibliography) An interview with Nintendo’s super game designer Shigeru Miyamoto - A+E Interactive: Your Bay Area hangout for gaming, music, movies, culture - ‘[Team members] have a hard time seeing completion or how they will complete the game. It becomes my job to help assuage their uneasiness and help them to see their path to completion.’ (tags: games nintendo…
I love it when people realize that business isn’t a zero-sum game.
I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? » Blog Archive Kitteh has broken an axle. « Retro-edu-gaming lolcats! (tags: lolcats oregontrail retrogaming) That Dropped Doughnut: How Soon, and How Often, Will It Come Back Up? - washingtonpost.com ‘The beauty of the five-second rule is that… it is not about food so much as it is about yearning and disgust and gastronomic history and evolutionary wiring and the implicit social contract we make when we…
Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - Life with Lunchhooks Base-64-encode the entire page (all assets must be inlined), then turn it into a data: URI. (tags: iphone hacks data base64 webdev)…
Oprah Winfrey Maze - Passion for Puzzles - Puzzle Blog ‘An Arizona farmer built this 10-acre homage to the talk show host (Google Earth coordinates 33.225488,-111.5955).’ (tags: maze oprah winfrey cropart celebrity googleearth) The New Gamer | Journal How do you handle the gutter in between the DS’s two screens? (tags: nintendo ds gutter space gamedesign) How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life ‘The most popular location…
apophenia: responding to critiques of my essay on class Followup to the controversy over Boyd’s essay on MySpace, Facebook, and class. (tags: class myspace facebook socialsoftware culture teens) Investors look for the “Holy Grail” of casual gaming ‘MySpace + YouTube + Maple Story + Skype + Habbo Hotel = 100 million users.’ (tags: casualgaming business slides advertising) Walk Score - How walkable is your house? Based on nearby business, mostly. My…
Gamasutra - Hudson To Bring PlayFirst Casual Titles To ‘Virtual Consoles’ Yum, Diner Dash on consoles. (tags: games casualgaming playfirst hudson consoles) Clive Thompson Thinks: Desktop Orb Could Reform Energy Hogs ‘Within weeks, Orb users reduced their peak-period energy use by 40 percent….the glowing sphere was less annoying and more persistent than a text alert…. “When you suddenly see your ball flashing red, you notice.”’ (tags: energy electricity conservation visualization balls…
Gamasutra - Activision Beats EA As Top Third Party Publisher In U.S. ‘Activision’s success has been attributed to the continued success of the Guitar Hero franchise… other great successes so far this year have all been movie licenses.’ (tags: games business activision electronicarts publishers) GamePolitics.com » Blog Archive » Senator is a Level-70 Dwarf Priest in World of Warcraft Ray Tenorino is actually a member of Guam’s legistlature, but still —…
:: rogerebert.com :: Commentary :: Games vs. Art: Ebert vs. Barker (xhtml) Ebert’s right: by his (classical, narrow, dated, and uninteresting) definition of “high art,” games can never qualifiy. (tags: games art roger ebert clive barker debate) Video: Infamous Heroes + GTA? Looks good, V! (tags: games video trailers infamous suckerpunch) Worlds In Motion - Q&A: Trion’s Buttler Talks $30 Million Online World Funding It’s fun to guess at what well-funded…
The Once and Future Prince - New York Times ‘Musicians may think that their best chance at a livelihood is locking away their music… and demanding that fans buy everything they want to hear. But Prince is confident that his listeners will support him, if not through CD sales then at shows or thro (tags: music prince fans business recording performance)…
Now that my credit card and I have done our part for the economy, I can go around awkwardly trying to hide my iPhone when I’m on the street or on the bus, because who really wants to be That Guy With The Really Expensive Gadget?
Information Architects 2007 Web Trend Map Map of the Web, London Underground style. Includes relative size/importance, site/service type, weather outlook, and web “versiion” (heh). (tags: maps web2.0 socialsoftware online) The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer - a photoset on Flickr It all seems kind of reasonable until you get to the worker dorms. (tags: mmorpg wow farming goldfarming dibbell photos china working workingplay) What’s So Friggin’ Funny? | Mind &…
Playing to Win Index ‘Dedicated to winners and those who strive to win.’ (tags: books games winning competition strategy) ESPN - FBI probes allegations that NBA ref bet on games - NBA Yikes: ‘According to a law enforcement official, authorities are examining whether [Tim Donaghy] made calls to affect the point spread in games on which he or associates had wagered.’ (tags: basketball referee gambling cheating fixing)…
Gamasutra - Breaking: Silicon Knights Files Lawsuit Against Epic ‘The suit initially alleges that: “…Epic intentionally and wrongfully has used the fees from those licenses to launch its own game… while simultaneously sabotaging efforts by Silicon Knights and others to develop their own video games.”’ (tags: gamedev siliconknights epic lawsuit contracts middleware) Two Cultures, Slowly Uniting In Matrimony - washingtonpost.com ‘Ever more Caucasian couples eschew pastels in favor of South Asian…
YouTube - I Am Murloc - L70ETC (Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain) Hee! Rawk. Mrrrglglgl. (tags: games music mmorpg worldofwarcraft murloc metal) Chore Wars :: Earning Experience Points for Housework Oh, as if I wasn’t bad enough at gaining XP. (tags: rpg mmorpg housework housekeeping) disambiguity - » Ambient Intimacy ‘[Twitter and IRC] helps us get to know people who would otherwise be just acquaintances. It makes us feel closer to…
A Toyota advergame makes you murder for a new car. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine ‘Since Toyota wants the Scion to be a niche product, it wants the campaign to be polarizing. “People that find it offensive are not our target,”’ But those Sheeple are so cute! (tags: games advertising advergaming toyota scion demographics violence) “I’d close World of Warcraft!” MUD creator Richard Bartle on the state of virtual…
An E3 gem for the Nintendo DS They’re making an adaptation of “Duck Amuck” for the DS? That is unspeakably rad. (tags: games warnerbros daffyduck duckamuck nintendo ds) Everyone’s Got A List | Broken Toys A list of MMO demands from the hardcore, which turns out to be a pretty good list of what *not* to do in your game. (tags: games mmorpg lists gamedesign)…
I finally buckled down and worked on one of my New Year’s resolutions, and the results are as underwhelming as you might expect.
Flappie Tamagotchi for Dashboard, connected to local weather. (tags: osx widgets tamagotchi weather slowplay) Forza racism: the whole picture // Xbox 360 News // Xbox 360 Gamer Magazine Online Neo-nazi paint jobs in Forza 2; the dark side of UGC. (tags: games forza microsoft nazi race customization ugc) BigBlueLounge.com (tags: music forums synthesizers macintosh sounddesign audio) Virtual marketers have second thoughts about Second Life - Los Angeles Times The bloom is…
SoundExchange Spares Many Webcasters From Rate Hike; Negotiations Will Reopen ‘…would now postpone the rate hike for small and non-commercial players indefinitely while it debates a revised rate with the webcasters. ’ (tags: music radio onlineradio royalties soundexchange riaa) An interview with Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo - A+E Interactive: Your Bay Area hangout for gaming, music, movies, culture - ‘Look at the iPhone. It’s expensive. But I think it is…
Official Site Of the 80’s Game with Martha Quinn brought to you by Funkitron Martha Quinn! (tags: games trivia tvgames 80s martha quinn vj) PlayStation Goes Into Review SCEA ‘has informed its agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, that it is putting its estimated $100 million Sony PlayStation account into review.’ (tags: advertising games sony scea tbwachiatday) AsUnit If any language needs a good unit test framework, it’s ActionScript. (tags: programming unittest actionscript) Footage Of…
Gamasutra - E3: Nintendo Shows WiiFit , Online Wii Mario Kart , FPS ‘Zapper’ Also: Nintendo battles socnets for your free time? (tags: games nintendo press conference e3 mariokart wiifit) mezzoblue § Icon Design: Anti-Aliasing Nudge vectors in Illustrator to influence anti-aliasing for best results. (tags: design graphics icon vector antialiasing) Clive Thompson on How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense ‘Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give…
Boogie Track Listing EA’s Wii dancing game to include “Groove is in the Heart,” “One Way or Another,” “It’s Raining Men,” and more. (tags: games music boogie wii lists electronicarts nintendo) The Escapist : Flower Power On Japanese card games and Nintendo. (tags: games cards nintendo hanafuda poetry) Sudoku 4 iPhone - a brand new iPhone game by: Albert Omoss (tags: games sudoku iphone) appleopolis.com Clearinghouse for iPhone apps (tags: iphone…
EA Chief Cites Need For More Innovative Games - WSJ.com ‘“We’re boring people to death and making games that are harder and harder to play,” Mr. Riccitiello said in an interview.’ (tags: games electronicarts innovation john riccitiello) Steven Spielberg Makes His Return to Videogames - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com ‘The acclaimed director has long moonlighted in game design… Spielberg and EA announced a partnership to make three videogames together, the first…
A roundabout way of getting to a very minor complaint I have with Pownce’s desktop app.
Cerise Magazine » Racial Inclusiveness in Gaming ‘Game after game, scenario after scenario, world after world, my brown-skinned doppelganger mentally superimposes itself onto different characters… my mind continues to struggle to insert my darker self into gaming’s white-washed reality.’ (tags: games race inclusiveness gamedesign) paidContent.org: The Economics of Content - Apple Launches Lower-Priced Indie Albums, Week After UMG Contract Fracas Shoulda waited to by that Peter Björn and John CD. (tags:…
WikiGame Text Adventure is Go Guardian Gamesblog launches a community project to develop a text adventure. (tags: games interactivefiction textadventure collaboration gamedev wikis community) Online text adventures IF engine written in javascript. (tags: interactivefiction textadventure gamedev javascript) Top 10 Ways to Remove Barriers to Entry in MMOs and Virtual Worlds « Free To Play It’s not just about attracting players to your game/world, but making life a little easier for them…
The way that the feature is described makes it sound less like training wheels and more like a completely different game.
South Koreans Connect Through Search Engine - New York Times “At Google, users basically look for data that already exists on the Internet. In South Korea, if you want to be a search engine, you have to create your own database.” (tags: internet web search questions collective intelligence) Star Wars Origami - a photoset on Flickr Lovely, esp. the sweeping robes. (tags: starwars origami craft flickr)…
The Chronicle: 7/6/2007: Knights of the Faculty Lounge Medieval studies casts a jaundiced eye on D&D culture at Kalamazoo, but generational shifts may close the gap. (tags: medieval academia fantasy tolkien conferences) Using ssh-agent with ssh Yuck. It’s easier to just type in your password. (tags: ssh howto security) SimpleComments :: Adam Kalsey Unify comments and trackbacks in Movable Type templates. (tags: webdev movabletype plugins comments trackback) Apple-mania, i gadget impossibili…
While the visible design of the site hasn’t changed that much, I did finally get around to gutting the site’s Movable Type templates, clearing out a bunch of crufty sidebars and CSS classes.