From Wired: A federal judge is allowing a negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game Lineage II, amid allegations that a Hawaii man became so addicted he is “unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or communicating with family and friends.” Smallwood…
Review of 20 non-video games at Gamasutra
Gamasutra has an interesting set of articles on real-world game design. [Game Design Essentials returns with an extensive review of some of the most interesting non-electronic games, from traditional cultural games like Chess and Go through pen-and-paper role playing titles like Call of Cthulhu, European games like The Settlers of Catan, and much more —…
Primer: One of the Best Sci-Fi Movies
Shane Carruth, writer and director of the lo-fi scifi flick Primer, has uploaded the entire film to Google Video so you can watch it for free. The plot is quite complex – so pay attention and lay off the mind-altering substances, you won’t need them. It’s about time-travel. And it’s tricky stuff.
Sunday afternoons are punctuated with the sounds of war.
Izaak had his Scout 3 training at Games Workshop yesterday and afterwards he decided that he was going to focus on building an army of Chaos Space Marines and that would be his tag in the future. This is not a worrying development at all.
Reunited
Today I moved about 150 kgs of my gaming collection to my house from my parents house. Keen-eyed geeks will be able to easily identify some of the game books here and some of you will even be upset at my organisation of the collection which, at the moment, is very coarse and will be…
Superheroes
In terms of special effects, I’d love to know how they do the superhero style special effects like in in Hancock and more recently, an EMINEM video (forward to about 3 minutes): and Push I’ve not been posting much because I’ve not been gaming much. I need to do something about that for the latter…
Bug Eyed Monsters
From Beyond the Beyond at Wired. See More.
The Aliens Are Coming
Stephen Hawking talks about how we should hide from aliens: I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach. … If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome…
2010 has been shit for gaming so far
Not much gaming this year so far. But we did watch [•REC]2. Which scared the bejasus out of me just the same way [•REC] did. Except for the ending which I didn’t like. This week is going to be a dead loss as well so there’s only hope for next week.
Tax breaks for UK Video Games Companies
So yeah, talk to me if you need game ideas. I’m rarin’ to go. That’s what LateGaming is – it’s an idea factory.
Asshat Paladins blog
Matt Borselli has a quick writeup of his experience with Crucible Design, and more specifically The 23rd Letter, on his blog, AssHat Paladins. I enjoyed chatting about it – getting involved in my own narcissism obviously – and it brought back a lot of memories. Part two will be out in a week or so…
Amazing content on Games and Reality
This is 28 minutes of chuckles and amazing insight on how everything we touch will become a game. Eventually. Who is going to lead us?
ARG!
Not a post per se, but something to help me bookmark a link which may be interesting to others as well as me. Content management and delivery tools for indie ARG producers: Alternate reality games and other kinds of distributed story/play projects place heavy demands on their creators’ abilities to manage and deploy content. To…
Dark Water Studios’ Dogfighter: Spring 2010
I don’t normally go for PC games but I’m enthused by Dogfighter by Dark Water Studios, a Derry-based outfit who plan to release their game in Spring 2010. I’d love an iPhone/iPad version of it.
DWAITAS: Episode 0
Our first character is Constable Bob Hawkins: October 3rd 1889, Blackfriars. Tonight has been slow. Apart from cuffing the ear of some pickpockets, Blackfriars has never been so quiet. It’s like the night is expecting something to happen. You roust a prostitute and her John out of an alleyway and then you notice…a silver door….
WatchTower New England – Episode 3
Robotic Rampage Stopped By Raw Recruits by Rhonda McAvoy of The Boston Globe March 18th, 2002 The Prudential Center was subject to a brutal attack this morning at around 8am. Three robotic figures burst out of one of the iconic “Duck Tour” tour buses to go on a deadly rampage through downtown commuters. The three…
TARDIS
The Doctor uses an “old” Type 40 TARDIS. IT travels in space and time. It’s bigger on the inside than the outside. It has a broken Chameleon Circuit which means it’s stuck in the form of a police box. Doctor Who, like Star Trek, has it’s own sort of technobabble. From the Whoniverse The bulk…
Too much time, too little talent
Where I embarrass myself with Garageband and a Dr Who MID file. Dr Who Remix
DWAITAS
I’ve been reading a lot of Doctor Who stuff recently since receiving the Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space (DWAITAS) RPG. I haven’t actually been reading the RPG though. I figure that the rules are secondary to the creation of compelling adventures. I finished Tom Baker’s “Robot” and “The Ark in Space” as well…