Post Overview
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Current Event
6 years ago+15 15 0Sophia University student's camera found on Taiwan beach after being lost at sea for two years - The Japan Times
The owner of a camera lost at sea for over two years — which turned up on a beach in Taiwan this week — has been identified as a university student in Tokyo after an online search.
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+10 10 0The Rise of Nintendo’s Original Gaming Master
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Expression
6 years ago+5 5 0‘Stardew Valley’ Creator Eric Barone on the Game’s Lonely Origins and His Secretive Next Game
With the beloved Stardew Valley, Eric Barone discovered the alchemy of quiet gamemaking. All it took was nearly life-ruining levels of obsessiveness.
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Current Event
6 years ago+1 1 0Sources: Google is buying Lytro for about $40M
Last week, Google showed off a new app to display immersive photography in virtual reality, and a multi-camera technique for capturing it, and now it looks like there may be plans to enhance that with some bolted-on technology created by a third part ...
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Expression
6 years ago+12 12 0Embracing Impressionism: Thoughts on Abzu
When they first appeared on the scene in the 19th century, the Impressionists hardly received a warm welcome from the artistic institutions of their day. Their work was, supposedly, unfinished- you could see individual brush strokes, and the art wasn ...
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+12 12 0Avatar: The Last Airbender - Visual Storytelling
Cinema is a visual language. This much is true across all forms; for this reason, the visual language is, in my opinion, the most beautiful and nuanced beyond all others. After all, just one image truly can be worth a multitude of words, and each of ...
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Analysis
6 years ago+10 10 0Gaming and Communication: Inside Indiecade East 2018
Every year in Astoria, a neighborhood in Queens, New York, a celebration of independent games is held at the prestigious Museum of the Moving Image. A wide assortment of games are shown off, and they're generally of the more experimental variety ...
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Expression
6 years ago+20 20 0Wes Anderson Explains Hayao Miyazaki’s Influence on ‘Isle of Dogs’ and Stop-Motion Challenges
Ahead of the world premiere of his latest feature, Anderson joined his star-studded voice cast to talk "Isle of Dogs" for the first time publicly.
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Expression
6 years ago+13 13 0Playing the Dying Game – The Last Days of Mojang’s Scrolls
Scrolls was a digital trading card and board game; players would collect cards that were creatures or structures or abilities, assemble these cards into decks and then do battle with other players on a board that was three tiles wide and five tiles l ...
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Analysis
6 years ago+21 21 0Imaging Without Lenses
New imaging systems, microscopes, and sensors rely on computation, rather than traditional lenses, to produce a digital image.
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Analysis
6 years ago+23 23 0This is how the world’s most covetable cameras get made
Explore the Sweden factory where Hasselblad’s legendary cameras are made.
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Current Event
6 years ago+14 14 0Mojang’s Brilliant, Ill-Fated Card Game Scrolls to Shut Down Next Week
February 13, 2018 is the day that Mojang will shut down the Scrolls servers for good. Scrolls, in case you've not heard of it, is CCG/board game hybrid that was developed and published by Mojang. It was at the center of a controversy when Bethes ...
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+12 12 0The Story of Tetris | Gaming Historian
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Current Event
6 years ago+17 17 0Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88
Ms. Le Guin brought literary elegance and a feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy tales, drawing millions of readers around the world.
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Current Event
6 years ago+22 22 0See the long-lost NES prototype of SimCity
Unseen for decades, ROM is now preserved by the Video Game History Foundation.
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Current Event
6 years ago+3 4 1Artwork Personalization at Netflix – Netflix TechBlog – Medium
Artwork is the first instance of personalizing not just what we recommend but also how we recommend.
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+7 7 0Others Will Follow - SciFi Short
The lone survivor of the first mission to Mars uses his last moments to pass the torch of inspiration.
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+1 1 0Brazil's Video Game Gray Markets
Brazil's complicated history with electronics has created an alternate universe of video games.
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Analysis
6 years ago+1 1 0Kan Gao on the benefits and drawbacks of designing in RPG Maker
I compare RPG Maker to a pencil. With a pencil there are techniques to learn, but compared to the other writing tools, its the most simplistic one. But you can still create elaborate works with it.
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Analysis
6 years ago+11 11 0Stardew Valley on the Switch proves the importance of "the magic circle"
The game’s introduction generates a calming buildup to play. There’s a bit of magic that happens as the overture gets into full swing, and you see the familiar and charming logos of the game’s creators and publisher. The pixelated valley then sweeps ...