“Naughty America” game makes CNN
CNN.com – Video games get very, very naughty – Apr 7, 2006.
Yet another sign of virtual worlds mainstreaming. After all, it’s not like there hasn’t been kinky furry yiffing going on for years.
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Plane reading
I spent much of yesterday on planes, flying back and forth between San Diego and the Bay Area. I forgot to bring enough books to read, so I was forced to search through the airport book shops for an additional book — which is particularly sad since my latest batch from Amazon had just arrived the day before.
As it happens, a lot of the books I’ve read recently count as this sort of “plane read,” though not all. So here’s some capsule reviews covering both sorts.
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Lara’s back
Kristen & I just collaboratively played through the demo of the new Tomb Raider: Legend. I’m pleased to say that it felt like the original — same gentle pacing followed by moments of combat, same puzzles to solve with gigantic ancient machinery. Yay. We knew Lara was back the moment that Kristen first climbed a ledge with a handstand.
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Are Mac games about to die?
Apple just announced that they are going to officially support dual-booting to Windows on the new Intel Macs using somftware they call Boot Camp, in beta now.
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Clint Hocking has a blog
…called Click Nothing. And he’s posted his talk on Designing to promote intentional play (zip file) from GDC.