Friday, April 30, 2010
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up hanging out afterhours, talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Mike Williams, Evan Narcisse and Lev Grossman discuss Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca’s Invincible Iron Man #25 and Dan Clowes’ Wilson.
Fall in troops!
Valve Software–the game development house responsible for classics like Half-Life 2, Team Fortress and Portal–shifted the axis of game distribution when they launched their Steam digital delivery platform in 2002. Since then, Steam’s become an additional distribution channel for big publishers as well as a place for small indie developers to find an audience.
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
If you’ve been endlessly searching for an academic approach to humor, look no further than Microsoft’s Education site. Specifically, the “competency” section for “humor.”
Ladies and Gentlemen-
Word has slipped that players will be getting a new Call of Duty game this November, probably because Activision just can’t stay out of the news. Call of Duty: Black Ops is being developed by Treyarch, who crafted 2008’s Call of Duty: World at War. That game, while generally well-received, didn’t achieve the same status [...]
April, we hardly knew ye.
With floppy disk drives long gone, someone on Reddit poses an interesting question: How much longer will the 3.5-inch floppy disk represent the “save” icon in most computer programs?
In the last month or so, there have been three new books by the Hernandez brothers, the brilliant cartoonists responsible for Love & Rockets: Gilbert Hernandez’s High Soft Lisp, Jaime Hernandez’s Penny Century and a big hardcover called The Art of Jaime Hernandez: The Secrets of Life and Death. Los Bros, as they’re sometimes called, [...]
