Some urban planners are geniuses. Some are Albert Speer. And some put the sewage plant next to the theme park. It’s in the last category that Electronic Arts is currently falling in. For all the innovation and improvement EA and Maxis have put in this potential gem, there’s an unholy stench of soiled diapers and […]
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SXSW: Shadowrun Returns, Bringing Cyberpunk Elves And More With It Thanks To You
Shadowrun may be the most popular geek franchise you’ve never heard of. The game started life in 1989 as a pen-and-paper roleplaying game, and while it never quite achieved the same notoriety outside of nerd circles as its distant cousin Dungeons & Dragons, or even it’s contemporary Vampire: The Masquerade, it’s always been much beloved […]
SXSW: Mike North From Nukotoys On Trading Cards, The iPad, And Outmaneuvering The Big Guys
Dr. Mike North likes building stuff. A lot. At the start of his Sunday morning SXSW panel, North showed video of a trip to Lithuania, where he and a bunch of other engineers decided to build a snowbike by replacing the front wheel of a bicycle with a small pair of skis. North showed footage […]
SXSW: PlayStation Vita Puts Players In The Game With Tearaway
Media Molecule, the developers behind Little Big Planet, are now preparing to release Tearaway, an original adventure game set in an open world and made entirely of paper. Designed to use all available features, this PlayStation Vita exclusive will give players a uniquely tactile experience. Players traverse a beautiful paper wilderness full of puzzles and […]
Reverse The Polarity! Spaceteam Offers Face-To-Face Multiplayer Fun
If Incandescent Workshop’s starship bridge simulator Artemis is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Sleeping Beast Games’s Spaceteam is Galaxy Quest. While both games have the same premise, that the players are the bridge crew of a sci-fi movie-esque starship, the similarities end there. Spaceteam feels like a combination of the 1980s flashing light game […]
SXSW: Before The Storm, There Comes The Calm
SXSW has arrived in Austin, TX, which is unusually chilly this time of year. The festival’s big gaping maw has barely begun to open to swallow up the tens of thousands of people who show up each year to discover and celebrate the seemingly infinite amount of creative endeavors put on display. And to network. […]
Review: Half The Sky Game Opens New Donation Possibilities Through Facebook
There’s a new game in town. The Half The Sky Movement, which works to create opportunities for women around the world, has rolled out a new Facebook game with a charitable purpose. Half The Sky Movement: The Game allows players to follow an Indian woman named Radhika on her journey through her village and then around […]
SXSW: SENSITIVE HULK GET MAD AT PUNY MARVEL OVER PROJECT GAMMA!
Techcitement learned of Marvel’s upcoming Project Gamma announcement at SXSW and knew this would be a perfect topic for Sensitive Hulk to discuss. IS OKAY, HULK HAVE SPOT OF DUST IN HIS EYE. HULK NOT CRYBABY. HULK SENSITIVE, NOT WUSS. SOMETIME HULK JUST GET MAD AT PR INDUSTRY. HULK UNDERSTAND THAT IT INVOLVE MANY UNDERPAID, […]
On The Cheap: Google Play Gives You Gifts For Its First Birthday
Today marks the first birthday of Google Play (even though it’s been around as Android Market since 2008) and the company is celebrating by offering you major discounts (i.e. free for many choices) on some of its most popular games, apps, books, books, TV shows, and movies offered through the store. Here’s a short list […]
Where Is The SimCity Game I Waited For?
Yesterday, Maxis and Electronic Arts released the new SimCity into the world, bloodied, screaming, and lacking a few teeth. If you don’t know about the City that is of The Sim, not only have you been living under a tech-rock but you need to have many tech-rocks thrown at you until you admit to being […]