Gadgets and Video Games

Worried that you’re only gonna get one legendary game developer speaking at this year’s GDC? Well quit it, because it turns out that March’s pontification festival will also feature the likes of Double Fine’s Tim Schafer, Lionhead/MGS Europe head Peter Molyneux, Square Enix FFXIII director Motomu Toriyama, a couple of “Pixar notables,” and fantasy wordsmith R.A. Salvatore. According to Gamasutra’s announcement of the speakers, the gentlemen will join “almost 350 other lectures, keynotes, and panels” taking place at the early March event, giving speeches on everything from comedy in gaming (Schafer, of course) to intuitive game design (Molyneux), and even a sneak peek (the first, actually, if we’re not mistaken) of 38 Studios’ upcoming MMO (with R.A

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Pixar, Molyneux and Schafer also giving talks at GDC 2010

Stand up. Walk over to your couch, and remove its cushions. Stick your hand into the exposed crevasses of your sofa, taking care not to lose any fingers in any reclining mechanisms which may be hiding within your chair. Dig out eight quarters, or twenty dimes, or forty nickels, or two-hundred pennies, or any combination of these denominations which add up to 200 cents

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Psychonauts only costs $2 until Thursday on Steam

[ hugohugo at deviantART ] deviantArt is usually the site you go to if you want to see uncomfortable, sexual doodles of anime characters and other such nonsense. Today, it’s become the place to see the most badass Eddie Riggs homage known to man. In fact, we’re pretty sure user hugohugo sold his soul to Satan for the ability to craft such a magnificent resemblance to Br

Our grandmother had this saying, “Handicrafts make for strange bedfellows.” In fact, she believed in it so much she once stitched the saying into a pillow she made from the skin of drifters she had lured into her home and killed. True, you don’t normally think “drifter murder” and “decorative pillows” as a pairing, so she had made her point. But we tried (and are still trying) to convince her that there are ways of stating her case that are both less illegal and involve less risk of contracting hepatitis C

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Brutal Legend gets papercrafted

One of the best things about digital distribution is how rapidly it can attend to a sudden, nostalgic urge. Classic PC game purveyor GoG.com has decided to reward rampant inpatients by offering Sanitarium for download — right this instant. The point-and-click classic comes to your hard drive for $9.99 and free of DRM. GoG has also included the game’s soundtrack as a free downloadable bonus. If you’re going to spend today playing an old adventure game, we can’t imagine a more apt choice than Sanitarium , a tale of one man struggling to escape a world gone mad

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Sanitarium now available on GoG.com

As designer Adam Bormann dug through old code and notes while making Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition , he made a curious discovery. Along with notes from Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer and crew, he also unearthed dialogue that didn’t appear in the original game. Though the lines didn’t make it into the special edition, Bormann, like a comedy archeologist, dusted off some of the best bits and collected them on the LucasArts Workshop blog .

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Monkey Island: Special Edition team unearths lost dialogue

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Late Night host Jimmy Fallon continues fulfilling his pledge to be as inclusive of video games as other forms of entertainment tonight by welcoming onto his set Tim Schafer, creator of Br

Late Night host Jimmy Fallon continues fulfilling his pledge to be as inclusive of video games as other forms of entertainment tonight by welcoming onto his set Tim Schafer, creator of Br