Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- I'm still chipping away on that proposal for a book about non-Modenist painting since 1900. I have two sample chapters drafted and am working on a chapter that is intended to set the stage

The release date is now set in stone for Resistance 2. Slated to arrive in both vanilla and special edition flavors, there's certainly something for everyone! The vanilla version of the game will retail for $59.99 and contain only the

Remo Camerota has put up a gallery on Facebook of shots taken during last night's PauseTalk (Vol. 24). Pictured, me and Andrew, discussing "important" things.If you have photos taken during an edition of PauseTalk, please add them to the Flickr

I've been wanting to add more game-related content to the site, but was trying to find the right way to do so without alienating readers who come for coverage of the Tokyo/Japan design and cultural scene. One of the non-intrusive

Before attending last night's PauseTalk, I was the Conrad Tokyo hotel in Shimbashi to attend a Microsoft Xbox 360 media event — I have posts over at Game|Life about the 360 price cut and Ninja Blade, with two more posts

Thanks to everyone who made it out to last night's PauseTalk (Vol. 24). Lots of talk about books this time, with Arcade Mania and Yokai Attack getting a lot of attention — thanks to the presence of art director Andrew

One of last night's PauseTalkers was Adam Carstens, a researcher at the Globis graduate school of management here in Tokyo. He's currently conducting research on the creative process inside Japanese companies, and is on the lookout for anyone with interesting

ruphus13 sends in a sad tale of online scammers hoping to reap rewards from the misery in Gustav's wake. They have been busy registering likely-sounding domains and setting up phishing attacks and other ruses. While not all the domains were

tandiond writes to tell us that in a recent blog posting, Mozilla CEO John Lily shared his thoughts on Google's new browser project, Chrome, and what that means for Mozilla. "It should come as no real surprise that Google has

I have been running Apache/MySQL for years using XAMP and WAMP on windows for web development. Recently I switched to using Ubuntu in VMware player, it is much faster and it also introduces me to a 'real' reason to play

Know someone who wants to learn to program? Paul Graham advises programmer wannabes to check out The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming on the Web from AppJet , which aims to be 'the funnest and easiest way for a beginner

just after the first beta, the entire design team plus a contingent of 2K producers headed off to see how a group that knew nothing about our company or BioShock would react to the first level. It was brutal. The

In this recent Slashdot post kernel hacker Harald Welte was characterized as "VIA's open source representative," but that is just one of many irons he has in the fire, as a glance at his Wikipedia bio will show. You can

Analysis of wolf droppings over a year has proven that if they are in an area where the dinner menu includes both deer and salmon, salmon wins hands down when it is available to them. The investigators think it is

ST. PAUL--Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar have all been released from police custody in St. Paul following their illegal arrest by Minneapolis Police on Monday afternoon." "All three were violently manhandled by

A formal complaint has been put in front of the European Court of Human Rights by a group that is concerned over the operation of the Large Hadron Collider, saying the researchers there have yet to prove the device is

Today Google released a beta of Chrome, their new webbrowser. Currently the binary is Windows-only, but ports to Mac OS X and Linux are coming. It is released under a BSD license. Chrome has many interesting features and innovations which