Yesterday I had the most incredible day.
Yesterday I visited the studio of Good Game: Spawn Point, at the ABC.
Good Game: Spawn Point is a TV show about video games, and its target audience is young gamers – under 10s — kids who spend their days playing Minecraft, Smash Bros., and Mario Kart.
The show’s creator is a woman, her name is Janet Carr. She is a real hero of mine, and I’ll never forget what she said.
Clearly, there’s no excuse for virtual scurvy. According to a Halfbrick press release that just came zooming in, more than 300 million copies of Fruit Ninja have been downloaded, and more than 1.5 trillion pieces of fruit have been chopped. There’s more to Halfbrick than that, of course, but that’s still a cool milestone. Melons!
Mark is incapacitated today, so it’s all hands on deck here at Allure Towers. Fortunately, an issue popped up back at my home turf of Lifehacker which is worth considering. Staying up until 3am playing games isn’t uncommon behaviour around these parts, I imagine. But would you consider getting out of bed early to play your favourite titles?
Far Cry has a curious history. It’s a series on the cutting edge, on the cusp of technology. But With Far Cry 3 Ubisoft hopes to go beyond that technology, beyond the camera. Far Cry 3 has aspirations, it wants to be a video game that’s about something, but what? We spoke to Lead Writer Jeffrey Yohalem to find out.
There are no such thing as silly questions! Our community are a pretty knowledgeable bunch, and will most likely have the answer!