I'm a sucker for vintage style travel posters in the first place, and these are just drop dead gorgeous.
They seem to be art from JustinVG's flickrstream; whether he's the creator or not I don't know. I would buy these in a heartbeat if they were for sale.
(via SuperPunch)
Front page of the Guardian right now. Bioshock 2 up there with the usual News.
A year ago this would have been doubly amazing, and only a few years ago probably unthinkable. Pretty sure the Grauniad was the first to move games from "Technology" into "Culture", representing a more modern reality.
(Meanwhile Videogames seem to have disappeared entirely from the BBC's news site; either that or its search is plain useless, which I suspect it is as the first page of results from "videogames" returns an article from 1998, amongst other odds and sods like filmnetwork user profiles and the like. Games are not under Arts. Only tiny, marginal mentions under Technology right now. Nothing under Entertainment...)
Beatnik Games have posted one little screenshot of their work in progress on a game we commissioned at C4. Provisionally titled Ada, it's set in a post-event, climate-changed, scavenger future where humans are trying to figure things out all over again using what tools and scraps of information they can find around them.
Ada's house on a hilltop. Purty, no?
It's a game more aimed at PC-gaming teenage girls (there aren't enough games aimed at teenage girls IMHO), but I reckon the chaps might quite like it too. You can follow Beatnik's progress over at their company blog.
My life is now complete.
I Love Bees, probably the world's most famous ARG: Jane McGonigal's given Cory Doctorow some of her original scouting notes to use as paper ephemera for his new self-publishing project With A Little Help.
She also sent some Lost Ring ephemera, and Cruel 2B Kind. Loving the super kawaii notepaper :-)
Indie Games channel. Used to be called the Community Games channel, which is to say, it's the bit of XBL that isn't Arcade and is way more wild west. So, if anyone can upload there, do they make any money?
Short answer: they can, but you're up against a zillion and one contenders, and it's probably a very sharp power curve (as, I'm told, the iTunes appstore is: "a nightmare").
Gama has the details: combining @majornelson 's data for the top 20, along with further data from developers via the XNA forums...
Interestingly, apps are surfacing there:
DrumKit allows players to take control of Rock Band or Guitar Hero drums without the official games. Aquarium HD and myFishTank turn Xbox 360s into habitats for digital fish, and Rumble Massage and A Perfect Massage let users go crazy with the controller’s rumble ability.
The nipper's going to love the fishtank. Checking that out when I get home.
I just bumped into Caspar, who pointed me at his new venture VeeMee: top of their product list is a virtual London Pub for purchase for PS3 Home users. 4.99 euro gets you a virtual version of something quite rare in these gastropub days: a "proper" London boozer, with a dartboard and "comedy beer pumps".
(The last time I went into one of these it was actually the Rose & Crown - in Epcot, Disneyworld. (Fabulous fish & chips there, as a point of note...)... the original pub is so rare in London now).
Not being a PS3 owner yet (yet), I can only guess that you buy this thing, and it attaches somehow to your Home space, and then you hang out with friends playing darts in it. Really must go buy a PS3 now, I've put it off for too long...
A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.
Now you know. Readable by mobile/cellphone cameras - now makeable by hands-on types, too.
Ooh! I'm not sure of the immediate application, except there has to be one. Kids games? Crafter ARGs? I dunno. Lovely though.
Get your discounts here. Early Bird Rate is on - last day today apparently? - and a C4-pals (which you are by default if you're reading this. It's like a EULA!) get an additional 10% off, which you'll need because pound-for-dollar, this isn't the cheapest conference on the block. It's good though, focused.
They're expecting 500-odd delegates of the international type this year.
Those who register before Sunday save at least £100 on a delegate pass and receive a free digital camcorder and a half day's CPD workshop; we've provided a special 10% off discount code for use by friends, rabbits and relations of the Channel 4 network. The code is channel4gbl10.
Some speakers:
... and me. Maybe see you there...
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