Matt Forbeck’s new novel Carpathia is out today as an ebook and I’m jazzed to read it. Vampires hunting the survivors of the Titanic as they steam away from the disaster? Yes, please.

Carpathia – Matt Forbeck – angryrobotstore.com

The online bookstore for Angry Robot eBooks and special editions.

The Penny Arcade guys have launched their own gaming news site, with a high-signal/low-noise philosophy and they hired a very talented journalist, Ben Kuchera, to run it. In this article Kuchera breaks down one minute of footage from a competitive Street Fighter tournament in a way any sports fan can relate to. The video clip is amazing and the dissection even moreso. I’m not a fighting-game fan but I loved this article.

The PA Report – Editorial

The match between Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong in the 2004 EVO Tournament is a legendary moment in fighting game history. But do you understand why it's so exciting? Capcom's Seth Killian explains why the "Beast is Unleashed" video represents a moment of true mastery in fighting games. Read More

State legislator Leland Yee’s ludicrous campaign to criminalize the sale of violent videogames ultimately cost Californians $1.8 million as the state opted to defend the law all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which made the obvious ruling that free speech is free speech and fuck you, California. I followed this story from the very start, was thrilled by the Supreme Court’s decision, and can now only point and laugh at Yee, Governer Schwarzenegger, and Governor Brown for making fools of themselves.

Failed video-game law cost California $2 million

Tim Schafer wants to make a new point-and-click adventure game and he’s financing it entirely through Kickstarter. This isn’t just great news; it’s a chance to seize the industry by the tight and curlies and flip it on its head. Join in!

Fascinating. These guys rigged a Kinect to a vibration belt. As you walk, Kinect detects approaching obstacles and triggers the correct portion of the vibration belt’s arc, so you know the obstacle is the middle left and so on.

Indian engineers modify Microsoft's Kinect to help the blind walk with confidence

viSparsh, a belt-based sensor system (sparsh means touch in Hindi) created by a young team of engineers, could herald a revolutionary change for 25-year-old Wasim, and millions of others who are blind.

I’m very pleased and impressed to see that my friends at Spry Fox have filed a Federal lawsuit against 6waves LOLapps for blatantly ripping off their game Triple Town. This is an awful situation and I wish Spry Fox the best in shutting down this ripoff.

The real Triple Town from Spry Fox is available for iOS for free above. It’s a truly clever and delightful game.

Triple Town for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th genera

Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Triple Town on the App Store. Download Triple Town and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Local game studio Spry Fox made Triple Town, an ingenious matching game for Kindle, Facebook, and Google+. Then alleged game designers Marc Tardif (formerly of Gearbox Software) and Tom Mustaine (formerly of Ritual Entertainment) at Escalation Studios in Dallas ripped it off, including its monetization strategy, and published it as Yeti Town for iOS. Their reward: acquisition by global casual publisher 6waves Lolapps. It’s sad to see thieves and copycats like these guys at Escalation Studios rewarded for their treachery.

Yeti Town, 6waves Lolapps' first iPhone game, looks terribly familiar

Yeti Town, we know you from somewhere. Ah-ha! You look just like a Kindle-turned-Facebook (and Google+) game we know, Triple Town. It's no wonder that

One year ago my friend Ray and I said, “Hey, why not adapt Sesame Street into an interactive Kinect TV show?” He and I wrote a proposal and it happened. This is why I’m working for Microsoft: because sometimes the shortest distance between a big idea and a shipping product is an enormous corporation willing to bankroll creative people.

Microsoft's Sesame Street team-up

Interactive episodes of Sesame Street are being developed by its creators in conjunction with Microsoft.