Disney's Haunted Mansion is probably my second Favorite Amusement Park Ride of All Time (first being Space Mountain). Someone created a virtual version of the ride of the ride using the Source engine (Valve's game engine that powers Half-Life 2, Portal, Left4Dead, etc.) I can't imagine how much time this took to put together.

Click to view

And here's a similar ( Read more... )

Fantastic little post by Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software, creators of the most excellent Avernum series and other cool old-school-style RPGs.

I saw a demo of this at SIEGE, and it was quite impressive:

http://unity3d.com

Two interesting developments on the game industry front ( Read more... )

If you are in the area and can take the time to check this out, I'd highly recommend it.

You are cordially invited to the Digital Media Winter 2009 Demo Day ( Read more... )

There's an online game called Obama's Coup Fails. It's as if all the 9-12 marchers assembled their tinfoil hats into Scaramanga's solar power facility from The Man with the Golden Gun and put Glenn Beck's hippocampus in place of the Solex ( Read more... )

I didn't see Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata's keynote, but I did run across a pretty thorough synopsis.Random quotes ( Read more... )

90% of what is considered 'impossible' is, in fact possible. The other 10% will becomes possible with the passage of time and technology. - Hideo Kojima ( Read more... )

This was a highly technical talk superbly delivered by Microsoft's Bruce Dawson, who probably knows more about multicore programming on the Xbox 360 than anyone.

• "It's ironic that CPUs that reorder instructions tend to not reorder reads and writes, but the Xbox 360 CPU that doesn't reorder instructions does reorder reads and writes. Reordering ( Read more... )

Friday afternoon, I bounced between sessions called "iPhone Development: Exploring the New Frontier" and "Taming Your Game Production Demons: The Offset Approach ( Read more... )