Claudio Midolo, Edgar Castellanos, Natan Sinigaglia, Pedro Mari are the guys behind wiiwiiwiiwii, a thesis project enabling music production with Nintendo Wii controllers.
A system based on vvvv and Max/MSP which turns Nintendo Wii remotes into simple yet funny "musical instruments
Amanita Design, the Czech company behind Samorost 1 & Samorost 2, are working on a new flash game; machinarium. In the tradition of previous games, machinarium will be an adventure game.
Former Chief Creative Officer of Sega's United Game Artists game division, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, will work on a project of a Virtual Tokyo in Second Life for the Japanese advertising firm Dentsu.
Mizuguchi san is known in the video games world as the man behind seminal title REZ.
Nicole Kidman as the testimonial for Nintendo DS.
From the press release:
Nicole joins over 10 million people who have made Brain Training part of their lives. Ms Kidman was chosen by Nintendo because of her universal appeal to mainstream audiences of all ages and backgrounds, as well as her reputation for being intelligent, entertaining and genuine.
Back in the days Edutainment was the big hype everybody was talking about. Edutainment as a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse was already something of a false hype starting from it's definition: every game is an educating experience, it does not have to be an Educational Game, or whatever you want to call it. The fact is, playing Zelda, or WipEout Pure is already a matter of learning, and education. This works on different levels, you learn the game's mechanics and in-world physics, the rules of the game, how to interact with non human players or other players.
I can hear your mumblings, learning how to play Zelda, or how to fly a WipEout ship is not Education it's just like learning how to kick a ball, or what are the rules of soccer, or baseball. Doh! So what exactly is an Educational Game? While if we agree (more or less) on the meaning of game, what exactly is education when we talk about video games?
The following are links to online resources for the Ninntendo Wii console, Flash games could be played through a web browser not necessarily with Wii, not necessarily.
Read more on Nintendo Customer Service online and on Mii on Wikipedia.
My Nokia mobile has a video game called *Canal Control*, nothing much to say about the game itself, the interesting thing is the game logo: a blue water drop that remembers me of the Drupal logo.
Who came first, the Canal Control or the Drupal CMS?
Wii Playable is a web site where you can find some nice, and free, Flash games conceived to be played with the Nintendo Wii built in browser, Opera that is. The games are organized by simple categories like: Action & Adventure, Sports, Puzzle, Shooter, Word & Trivia, Card, Board.
What is this RSS thing? For help on subscribing and more options, or to subscribe to a particular category, please have a look at: RSS feed how to.
The Journal of Contemporary Street Art is printed on demand with lulu (lulu.com) and it mix street art photography with toponomy research.
Buy the Journal of Contemporary Street Art - JoCSA00
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