Entries for March, 2010
Spoon creates online IGC and IGF Game Finalists Games Sandboxes
Seattle based technology firm Spoon specialize in technology that lets games run instantly from the web without installations. Today they announced the immediate availability of the online IGC and IGF Sandboxes. The IGC, or Indie Game Challenge, is an annual competition for aspiring game developers to showcase their skills, pitch their games to top publishers [...]
An open letter to Zynga
Dear Zynga: You don’t need me to tell you how successful Farmville is. After all, you already know that it’s the most successful application on Facebook with over 82 million users and over 22 million fans. Farmville users represent more than a fifth of all Facebook users and (at least per The Guardian) one percent [...]
Independent Games Festival opens in San Francisco
The Independent Games Festival, which opened today in San Francisco, bills itself as a sort of Sundance Festival of independent game development. Now in its 12th year, the IGF allows indie game developers a chance to get together with professional peers and aspiring applicants into the industry to show off their skills, learn new techniques [...]
Philips Selects XpanD Active 3D Technology
If, like me, you’re in the market for a new TV, you may want to hold off on buying a new one for a while: Philips and XpanD have hooked up together to provide consumers with co-branded versions of XpanD’s patented pi-cell active 3D glasses with Philips 3D television sets. Gaming and movies are going [...]
