Jon Irwin

With House of Cards, Netflix is learning what gamemakers have known all along.

Looks like television producers are finally figuring out what videogame companies have known for decades: If you can make something yourself, why buy it from somebody else? – – – House of Cards is a 13-episode drama directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey. Twenty years ago, the star powe

Early footage of Lost Planet 4? Nope, just Boston.

Blizzard “Nemo” battered the east coast overnight on Friday. The governor of Massachusetts enforced an official ban on driving, the first since 1978, with penalties upwards of a year in prison if caught on the roads. Public transit shut down indefinitely. Most schools, stores and businesses shut dow

The promise of Sony’s rumored Share Button

Sony’s successor to the Playstation 3 is rumored to have a ‘Share Button,’ the exact purpose of which has yet to be disclosed. The assumption is that this will be a seamless way to post screenshots or even video with others online. The growing library of playthroughs on YouTube and the surging popul

Ever dreamed of running your own arcade? Arcadecraft points the way.

New mediums spend their early years as platforms for what hasn’t yet been possible, gathering material from the unsatisfied impulses of their creator’s brains. Eventually, with enough time and accumulation, the material echoes its very creation. Arcadecraft, a new indie game on Xbox Live where you m

A former game designer culls sea of tweets into Shakespearean couplets

Sometimes the world needs to know what brand sweatpants you’re wearing. It is for these moments that Twitter was invented. Okay, maybe narcisstic prattle isn’t the only reason. If only there was a way to sift through the endless chatter and reshape it into art… Enter the Pentametron. – – – Developed