John Scott Tynes: Transubstantiating the aether since 1995
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I’m really glad to see Kotaku giving this game some coverage. Zombie Highway is my favorite iOS game and has been since it came out last year. It controls beautifully and is addictively replayable. If you have an iOS device, spend the buck and try this outstanding game.
Zombie Highway Makes you a Highway Superstar
Originally released on the iPhone and iPod Touch in 2010, the fact Zombie Highway just got updated with a native iPad version means it's definitely worth another look. You can ignore the "zombie" part in the title;
I’ve been running an R&D project exploring selection mechanisms for Kinect with kids. It’s been really challenging. This morning our latest rough prototype — buggy, confusing, and heavy-handed — nonetheless worked. The kids got it. I think we might get somewhere with this crazy thing after all.
We’ve kicked off the second season of Full House Poker: Texas Heat on Xbox LIVE. This season includes three new achievements and an avatar award as well. Shows run every Tuesday and Saturday evening. Play on!
Full House Poker: Texas Heat, Summer 2011 Season – Xbox.com
It's time for the Summer 2011 season of Texas Heat! Texas Heat is a regularly scheduled, fast-paced poker game that brings thousands of players together at the same time. You’ve got thirty minutes to bluff, bet, and raise your way to the top table in this unique, new poker game show!
I played CoD4: MW tonight for the first time. So far it’s indistinguishable from CoD2 & CoD3 except for the art. Mostly Harmless.
Sony Online sells an all-access pass to their MMOs and they announced today that they’re dropping the price to $19.95 a month to play all their games. It’s a mixed bag of titles but that gets you DC Universe, the Everquests, and of course my beloved Pirates of the Burning Sea. If you want to dive into a bunch of MMOs, there’s no better value.
Sony Online Entertainment dropping the price for Station Access | Massively
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This is the final installment in Massively’s journey through my MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea. It’s a very nice wrapup that highlights the strengths of the experience: a real economy with regional trade, a dynamic world with territory that changes hands regularly, player town governance with real powers and responsibilities, and very deep and rewarding naval combat. I still think Pirates is a real triumph of advance
Choose My Adventure: Sailing to port | Massively
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I’m sure someone is very proud of this trailer but all I could think was, are we never going to get past the aesthetic established by the movie Seven? The opening credits for that film had the same impact on horror/thrillers that H.R. Giger and Blade Runner each had on horror/SF.
My two favorite moments from our E3 keynote: describing Ultimate Fighting Championship as a “thought leader” and Ice T announcing he’s reforming Body Count to record a new song inspired by Gears of War’s Horde Mode. Comedy gold!
Want to see what the Xbox dashboard will look like this fall? Controller, remote, voice, gesture, we’ll do it all, plus Bing voice search to find all related games and media for whatever you want. It’s pretty sweet.
Does the New Xbox 360 Dashboard Look Familiar to You?
This fall the Xbox 360 gets a sexy new dashboard update, giving the service a look and feel that should be incredibly familiar to both Windows Phone 7 owners and folks that have gotten a peek at Windows 8.