Robert Ashley wonders why he spends his free time playing videogames, asks random people on the street about it, talks to a researcher whose work attempts to harness the brain power wasted on gaming, gets to know an eccentric, forward-thinking game designer who lives sustainably with his family of four on $14,000 a year, and gets a first-hand account of what it’s like to work on terrible games (and what it’s like to get terrible reviews) from an anonymous game developer.
via A Life Well Wasted.
Phew… it’s a busy week… after teasing everyone about the new you-name-it PixelJunk game, it’s also time to release specific information about the new version of PixelJunk Monsters that we have prepared meticulously for the PSP. When I came up with the idea of having this on the PSP, there was some debate about whether or not people will be as receptive. So I’ll need your help to prove me right, please!
– PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe – The Biggest Version Yet is Portable – PlayStation.Blog.
As I keep hearing of more trojans and viruses lately I wanted to be sure my mac is clean when I’m bundling software for public use. I just downloaded and tried iAntiVirus, which appears to be fine for this purpose.
