Talk about kismet: Unwinnable’s March theme week coincides with the 2013 Game Developers Conference. That might overwhelm a lesser gaming site, but not us. Instead of doing the usual conference coverage, we had the opportunity to do something a little bit different. We could celebrate that one thing that brings us all together, the common thread that we – writers, readers, developers, teachers – devote so much of our lives to: Play. (more…)
Last night, Nvidia announced its first-ever dedicated gaming device, currently code-named Shield. It looks like a slightly oversized Xbox 360 controller with a 5” clamshell screen on its top and it runs a “vanilla” version of the Android operating system.
You might expect such a bulky, open-source gizmo from an industrious hacker – the kind of person who’d squeeze a screen onto a Gamecube controller or turn a toaster into a Nintoaster. What the hell is a company as big as Nvidia doing making one? (more…)
It’s been a pretty good week for Instagram’s developers. (more…)
SimCity rises again!
Maxis and EA have officially announced that SimCity 5 is set to arrive sometime in 2013, the first sequel to the popular series of PC games in a decade. (more…)
Yes, that’s me on Page 39 of today’s New York Post.
I’m the one posing with a portrait of the queen in an old-fashioned London telephone booth that doubles as the entrance to a West Village cafe called Tea & Sympathy. In another shot, I’m holding a teapot with the Union Jack painted on it, but the Post didn’t use that one.
Why am I on Page 39 of today’s New York Post? Because I am, apparently, a ‘Downton’ Dude – and, clearly, I am not afraid to say it. (more…)
In December, while much of the U.S. was up in arms over extending payroll tax cuts and the detention provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) was hoping his own pet project could be snuck through committee: HR 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In very broad language, in its current form SOPA requires Internet service providers to block access to websites that engage in activities related to content piracy, including removing such sites from their DNS servers (that’s what turns www.unwinnable.com into the IP address needed to connect to us), with the intention of making them, for all intents and purposes, disappear off the Internet entirely. (more…)
