Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Ant Simulator, a game that raised money through Kickstarter, has allegedly been canceled because the company’s leaders spent the money on liquor, restaurants, and strippers instead of using it to finish the game. If the allegations are true, the episode is reminder of the go-go days of dotcoms and it represents a cautionary tale for…
John “TotalBiscuit” Bain is not the first to struggle with social media as he’s become more popular, nor is he the first to announce he’s quitting a service like Twitter. But uniquely, the YouTube star is living with terminal cancer, and his statement on why he’s leaving is gut-wrenching and understandable. Bain first discussed his…
A fan-made Half-Life 2 campaign that expands on the story in 1999’s Half Life: Opposing Force will launch on Steam in February. Prospekt, made by Richard Seabrook, is said to be as long as Half-Life 2: Episode One. It launches Feb. 11. The project began last year as a kind of job application to Valve,…
Marc Laidlaw, the Valve Software veteran who wrote Half-Life, its expansions and its sequel, is no longer employed at the company. In an email to Polygon, Laidlaw said that he has left Valve after 18 years. “I retired very recently,” he wrote, before confirming that an insightful email obtained by a Half-Life fan and attributed to the…
Meet Gideon Grudo. Actually, before I do that, let me explain… Judges for journalism contests are almost always anonymous. I’ve judged high school, college, and professional contests and never told anyone but my wife (who didn’t give a crap as long as it didn’t cut into our wine drinking). That wasn’t because I feared criticism — any…
Steam faced something of a catastrophe this afternoon, giving players across the world access to some of the personal information in other people’s accounts. It’s not yet clear how this happened, but it’s a doozy. Call it the Steam Winter Fail. Various players across the world logged into their Steam clients today to find their…
The turret choir echoes throughout Aperture Science on this icy evening! Merry Christmas everyone and I wish you all a great new year! ^_^A Portal-style homage to ‘Carol Of The Bells’ by Mykola Leontovych and Peter J. Wilhousky. Probably the most complex vocal and music arrangement I’ve ever made. Lots of different layers and instruments…
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Creative forces now in charge of venerated role-playing franchise beginning to chart new course. White Wolf Publishing has provided new information on the future of World of Darkness. Speaking in a presentation and a Q&A session at Tenebrae Noctis, a World of Darkness fan event held last weekend in Germany, CEO Tobias Sjogren and Lead…
Welp, Fallout 4 has been out for a few weeks now, and if Twitter, Tumblr, and Pornhub’s traffic drops are any indication, a good number of us have been foregoing our real lives in favor of traversing the radioactive ruins of Boston. Good times. Going in, something that interested me greatly was how the game would handle…