Author: Peter Lang
Coffee Break Keeps it Real!
While we know you’re all violenty excited for Brink and L.A. Noire to be released next week, remebering your indies is almost important as brushing your teeth. Shawn McGrath has been hard at work promoting and perfecting DYAD, a game that has quickly become one of Unwinnable’s most anticipatd games of 2011. Do yourself (and Shawn) a favor by checking in and seeing how 2011’s Sleeper Pick of the Year is coming along. Oh, and we wrote something about it, too.
Retro-Modernism
I know that when I tell you Team Unwinnable loves RPG’s, I speak the truth. From Final Fantasy to Dungeons and Dragons, there is a special place in each of our hearts for those games that filled our childhood (and teens…and twenties…and thirties) with sorcery, adventure and a frustrating chain of disoriented companions. But it isn’t nostalgia that keeps us attached. We don’t sequester ourselves in our bedrooms late into the night, staring with bloodshot eyes at Ultima 3 just to keep the dream alive. No, it’s the innovation, imagination and artistry that keeps us playing, and when SRRN Games
Less About Thinking: DYAD and the Metaphysics of Gaming
It is indeed the unique gaming experience when one achieves a moment of stasis, a state of equilibrium caused by opposing equal forces. In the case of Dyad, those forces – the player/agent and the game – relate mutually to internalize something which is wholly external or other.
A Split Subject: Coming To Terms With Artificial Intelligence (In Brief)
HAL is real, and it plays Jeopardy! In an interesting competitive twist, the legendary quiz show featured “Watson,” an IBM supercomputer possessing the ability to understand and process natural language, facing off against past Jeopardy! icons Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. The computer won. Although this is by no means a sign of the end times, Ken Jennings was closer to the truth than he may believe when he joked “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.” Perhaps he shouldn’t be so hasty.
Better Read than Dead: A Three-Part Investigation into Soviet Science Fiction
It was by fortuitous accident that Peter Lang stumbled upon the work of Dmitri Bilenkin while rummaging through the dusty enclave that is the science fiction anthology section of the Montclair Book Center. Bilenkin’s book, The Uncertainty Principle, by title alone was intriguing and soon learning it was one of a series entitled The Best of Soviet Science Fiction not even the Glavlit could bar Peter’s ownership of this gem.
The Man That Time Forgot: Hard-Boiled Wonderland at the End of the States
Peter Lang takes to the road knowing not what Brunswick, Maine holds in store for him. What secrets, clues and curiosities await in the untapped vein of American scholarship that is the Edward Page Mitchell archive at Bowdoin College?
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