Archive for May, 2007

Clash of the literacies: Making a “ludocinematic future”

Digital Games Film IndustryPublished May 29, 2007 at 11:36 pm No Comments

Recently, a top Hollywood special effects company — Digital Domain – announced that they will be investing 25 million into making “creating a video game that matches the quality of a feature film”. Well, as you can imagine, the gaming community found this claim pretty insulting. Well respected game designer Clint Hocking rants at his
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Trent Reznor on Year Zero

ARG Creative Cross-Media Design MarketingPublished May 29, 2007 at 10:53 pm 1 Comment

An interview with Trent Reznor (the man behind NiN and the ARG Year Zero) reveals that the only way forward for the music industry is for the industry to step aside and let the artists do their thing, and pay them for it: When your US label, Interscope, discovered the web-based alternate reality game (ARG) you’d built
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Go Aussie Entrepeneurs! Top 60 Web 2.0 Companies in Australia

Industry Internet TechnologyPublished May 29, 2007 at 9:35 pm 2 Comments

Read Write Web has published an article on the top 60 Web 2.0 companies in Australia: At Future Exploration Network‘s Web 2.0 in Australia event on June 6, we are including a showcase of the top five examples of Web 2.0 coming out of this glorious country. Identifying who we wanted to invite to the
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