Late last year, after several months of legal to-ing and fro-ing, the National Videogame Archive was launched at the GameCity 3 show. To coincide with the launch, myself and Jimmy conceived of a campaign during a late-night skype, the intention of which was to heighten the emotional and cultural intent of the whole project. The NVA [...]

The 11th Annual Independent Games Festival – Finalists & Winners (tags: indie games) Full Throttle Goes Cinematic (tags: scumm)

The cat's out of the bag for iWork '09

The brilliant, brooding Mr Tom Armitage has just recorded an extensive interview with CBC radio addressing the themes of the recent talk he did at GameCity 3 – If Gamers ran the World. It’s part of the Spark show and can be heard in full here… It’s more likely than ever that in the coming [...]

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | The Onion – America's Finest News Source I'll buy almost anything if it's shiny and made by Apple. (tags: apple)

A series of interesting interviews lined up, there should be a lot of developments at CultureTech this year. Like most of the rest of the blogging world though, I couldn’t really let this pass… Most likely though, is that the Americans simply got better presents. 6.6 billion friend requests were approved on FB in 2008. [...]

The Art of Assumption | Noble Carrots Are games art….? (tags: isitart? gamestudies) Your dashboard on Wakoopa (tags: software)

Hitwise Intelligence – Robin Goad – UK: Social Xmas: Facebook’s busiest day ever, YouTube overtakes Hotmail, Social networks = 10% of UK Internet traffic Traffic reached a new high on Christmas Day 2008, when Britain’s most popular social networking site accounted for 1 in every 22 UK Internet visits. With a market share of 4.65% [...]

Been thinking lots about the Snowman (again) this year… Anyone know where one can find the original transmission with the Briggs introduction? After the initial showing on Channel 4, and in its initial showings on U.S. television, an alternative introduction was sometimes used. Instead of Raymond Briggs describing how much it had snowed the winter [...]

Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple | (tags: apple macworld) Facebook | Playing a "Good" Game: A Philosophical Approach to Understanding the Morality of Games (tags: philosophy morality gaming ren_reynolds) Collectible Games Plunge in Value Following Digital Re-release …but y'know… there's lots of different kinds of value… (tags: nva heritage) Researchers Want [...]