A Tupolev Tu-204 passenger plane overshot a Russian airport on Saturday, December 29, 2012. This amazing footage was shot from a highway beside Vnukovo International Airport and captures the moment debris begins to spill on to the road. Five are reported to have died during the crash.
In a world as crazy as ours it is easy to forget the immense power we have over it…
As if you needed any more reasons to be in awe of Robert Downey Jr., here’s a video of the actor performing a duet with singer Sting. This video was recorded during Sting’s 60th Birthday performance at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on October 1, 2011.
I’ve had DICE’s Battlefield 4 beta sitting in my Origin gamelist for a while now. This past weekend I got a notice letting me know that I could preload the…
Katharine Haché is a graduate student at East Tennessee State University that has developed interactive fiction using TWINE. We started our discussion talking about classic arcade games Burger Time and Mario Bros. Not unlike many of us who grew up in the 80’s, Katherine played those games with her parents. She pointed out how those early experiences helped generate fond family memories and affected her current interests in storytelling. Other points that were made in the interview pertained to the nature of video games, the publishing industry around them, and the tropes and clichés their stories often rely on.
See the war through the Empire’s eyes as you watch TIE Fighter, a short animated film by Paul Johnson. Drawn in the style of 1980’s cartoon movies, TIE Fighter lets you follow a skirmish between the Empire and Rebel Alliance forces.
