Joel Johnson
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US Border Patrol Makes A Video Game Simulating Their Job
Researchers at a government-funded laboratory have built a giant touchscreen video game that simulates the capture of illegal aliens. In a statement made to Kotaku by an official spokesman, the entire project and underlying systems cost “in the ballpark of $US10 million [worth]of internal investments”.
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Turbo Grannies Proves The Swedish Have Iffy Taste In Mobile Games
I’ll admit, the biggest hook Turbo Grannies had for me was when their PR guy mentioned that it was about to beat Angry Birds in the Swedish iTunes App Store. I wasn’t exactly champing at the bit to play another Excitebite clone. [Kotaku]
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Why Does The iPad Need To Kill Consoles?
Rovio’s Angry Birds is huge. Cultural touchpoint. The sort of thing Jon Stewart can joke about on The Daily Show without qualification. But that doesn’t make Rovio executive Peter Vesterbacka an expert on the videogame market. iPads aren’t killing consoles.
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The Big Picture Photoblog Reborn As The Atlantic’s ‘In Focus’;
Update your bookmarks! Alan Taylor, founder of the wildly famous The Big Picture photoblog, has launched his newest iteration at The Atlantic, called “In Focus”. [In Focus]