If you’re interested in gaming culture you probably have seen Indie Game: The Movie a long time ago. If you haven’t and appreciate passionate nerdy developers working on games they love and crossing the border to art you should consider having a look. It’s fairly affordable and available in a DRM free format. Here is […]
In May the New York Times published an article about the brilliant game Portal 2 featuring the quote: Somewhere out there an innovative, dynamic high school physics teacher will use Portal 2 as the linchpin of an entire series of lessons and will immediately become the most important science teacher those lucky students have ever […]
As a big fan of the legendary Sim City I could’t resist giving it’s recent launch of a Facebook version a try. I spent a bit of time but it was rather disappointing, nothing really innovative, just a FarmVille copycat. What made me think was the integration of advertising. Basically you get a Mercedes factory […]
This ad is shocking but greatly done. Placed in Vogue it’s kind of a “hidden” ad rising awareness for violence against women in Germany. If you’re reading this on an iPad there is a swipe through version to get the full experience. ………………. “Hidden ads” just work very well as they have the moment of surprise to engage with […]
It might be that more people know the game developers from Valve because their awesome staff handbook leaked a while ago. Anyway – it’s an awesome company developing awesome games and one of them is one of my all time favourites: Portal 2. Fans of the game knew there was a level editor coming up […]
After playing a few rounds of Starcraft II yesterday evening I found the idea very interesting to connect the idea of agile to succeeding in this game. Take the early days of Command & Conquer (who just decided to ruin their brand with a lower middle class browser game adoption). You could succeed by building a gigantic […]
What a nice coincidence: this morning I read a tweet about a lovely toy from Day of Tentacle – a true legend! – and pinned it on my board. Now Marcel Weiss writes about a Kickstarter project that has just raised over a million dollars (originally asking for 400k) to build a game. An adventure […]
I haven’t written about a game for a while (although played a lot). Yesterday I discovered Spice Invaders (iTunes link) – a very clever mixture of a brilliantly done Tower Defense game and the freemium business model. So if you love building different kind of towers around your base(s) and wait for the enemy to run […]
Advertising agency Zeus Jones has recently created a really nice HTML5 app around the topic “whisky” (which is basically an ad for the agency itself). The app is called “Proof”, it’s free and it’s and a mixture of a game and interactive discovery with the goal of becoming a proper whisky connoisseur. In fact, the […]
What a bad-ass trailer. They didn’t make it in May like announced earlier this year but Duke Nukem Forever was finally released. Probably not the best shooter ever but for a lot of people waiting for the successor of one of the first 3D shooters which was released in 1996. The game is already available at […]
