My colleague Jim is a fount of fascinating stories, often having to do with projects he and his friends have undertaken. My latest favorite, The Year of the Blog.
My name is Dru Johnston, and I write unsustainable blogs.
Starting April 12th, 2009 I will be creating a new blog everyday for a year. At the end of that, if I don’t…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Alluda Majaka aka Alluda Mazaaka…! made in 1995 could very well be the best action film you’ve never heard of. Arguably one of the most artistically driven jaw dropping creations I’ve ever seen. It also involves an incredible amount of horse torture, and the filmmakers wanted to let us know they definitely hurt people, animals, and cars to make this…
By Hawkes Klein
Well. Duh.
The contest was staged on a global stage, in nine languages, lasted for five months and saw some 15,121,731 questions asked and answered – although not all of them correctly.
The balance of power shifted repeatedly between the sexes, which were sometimes just a few correct answers apart, but ended with the women clinching victory.
They answered 4,088,139…
Ladies and Gentlemen, today is a grand day. Today, no pie is safe. The humbug Winterbottom has been loosed on the cobbled streets Live Arcade.
It’s a proud moment for me… ever since I turned ten and got my first NES and a copy of Mario 3, I’ve dreamed about making a console game. I almost can’t believe it’s really…
Last week I touched on the upcoming interactive drama, Heavy Rain and its promotion, but this time I’m going to go into detail about it.
Quantic Dream and Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) are really going all out for Heavy Rain. SCE set up Four Days, an alternate reality game (as Kotaku calls it), that occurred every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (4…
By Hawkes Klein
I don’t usually do this (obviously) but the longest week ever has come to a close and this morning I found myself flipping through a Lucky Magazine on the train and I saw an ad for these shoes and I thought to myself “Wow, I love those.” Which may very well be the final sign of the snowpocalypse.
So here are a few…
It’s a lovely thing to have talented friends. Case in point, Popten’s own Jamie Antonisse, who just won an Independent Games Festival’s Student Showcase (which, my less nerdy bretheren, is a big deal) for his game Spectre. (Art by fellow Poptenizen Chris Baily!)
Good news! The game, which keeps getting praise heaped on it, can be played right this second- go…
By Dan Freeman
I’ve always been a fan of remix culture – anything from hip-hop sampling to officially-sanctioned club remixes and extended mixes of popular radio tunes to, most recently, mashups – as it displays a creativity and understanding of art that often surpasses the original work or works. If you think about it, just about all creative output is based on or…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
If you know me then you know I love animation, and especially have been interested in the video essay variety for my own personal work. Recently British think-tank Demos teamed up with creative agency Airside to create “The Power Gap,” that surveys the history of power structures in Western society. The concept is unbelievably well executed, and I just wish it gave…
Back in 1993, a TV show known as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers premiered on Fox Kids. Little did anyone expect that it would explode into one of the biggest TV phenomenons of the 20th century. Now 17 years, 15 series and a metric ass-ton of merchandising later, the current holders of the Power Rangers rights, Disney/ABC, are airing the original series,…
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…