Your Favorite YouTube Ad of 2011? Apple, of Course.
Other things you liked to watch this year: Clips featuring videogames, Lady Gaga and the Space Station.
What Apple needs to provide users to make iTV successful
Apple's television plans are the subject of plenty of recent speculation, and are raising a lot of questions in consumer minds. From the questions I've heard about the rumored iTV, here's a list of five things Apple needs to do to shake up the space.
The Literacy of Gaming: What Kids Learn From Playing
"When people learn to play videogames," according to James Paul Gee, "they are learning a new literacy."This is one of the reason kids love playing them: They are learning a new interactive language that grants them access to virtual...
Flixmaster makes HTML5 video interactive
Startup Flixmaster is making it easier for video creators to make interactive applications. Its platform provides a drag-and-drop interface for creating branching relationships between videos and publishing them online. The platform publishes in HTML5 video, aiming at the growing number of mobile devices that support video.
The Future of Gaming
Video Games are seeping into nearly every part of our lives, and game designers are trying to seize the opportunity to imbue these games with newfound meaning and purpose. Brooke talks to game designers and futurists about where games are going and how...
The Influence of Gaming
According to the market research firm The NPD Group, 27 percent of America's entertainment dollar is spent on video games. According to New York Times Magazine author and game aficionado Clive Thompson, whether you play them or not, video games have ch...
The Culture of Gaming
Despite the comparisons, video games are a wholly new medium, allowing an interactivity, agency and complexity most other media just can't provide. Brooke talks to Kill Screen Magazine editor Jamin Brophy-Warren, novelist Nicholson Baker, and journalis...
Roku 2 revealed. Thanks, FCC!
Pictures and details of the next generation of Roku set-top boxes have been revealed, thanks to a filing with the FCC. So should you get ready to buy one? It probably depends on if you already own a Roku -- and how much you like Angry Birds.
Video gamers: the secret stars of live streaming
Forget live music: One of the hottest trends in live streaming is competitive gaming, also known as e-sports. Gaming competitions attract hundreds of thousands of simultaneous viewers, and the events are streamed online by a number of sites that specifically cater to gamers and their fans.
Tom Bissell Keeps Caring About Videogames
Tom Bissell is one of our favorite writers on videogames. His book last year Extra Lives, was a study in how videogames work (or don’t), why they’re a singular medium and why Bissell finds them so terribly addictive. Last summer, when we talked...
Tom Bissell Keeps Caring About Videogames
Tom Bissell is one of our favorite writers on videogames. His book last year Extra Lives, was a study in how videogames work (or don’t), why they’re a singular medium and why Bissell finds them so terribly addictive. Last summer, when we talked...
