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Thomas Tull’s Legendary Pictures Goes ‘All In’ for Geek Movies

HOLLYWOOD — The new film Where the Wild Things Are was produced by Warner Bros., a company you’ve probably heard of, and Legendary Pictures, a company you might not have. Legendary has only been around for five years, but it’s got an innovative, ...

From CHRIS BAKER, Wired,  15 Oct 2009
Related Topics: WIRED Magazine,  Warner Bros.,  Bryan Singer,  Spike Jonze,  Zack Snyder

Spell Your Way to Victory in Scribblenauts

The new Nintendo DS title Scribblenauts packs a lot of innovation into an unassuming package. To solve puzzles, players summon useful objects by typing or scribbling words on the touchscreen (spell out "ladder" and—poof!—a ladder appears). Sounds ...

From CHRIS BAKER, Wired,  29 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Nintendo

Behind the Scenes of The Beatles: Rock Band

Pulling together , the upcoming videogame that lets players step into the shoes of the Fab Four, was a tremendous effort that took a massive amount of work on technological and personal levels. Garnering the support of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, ...

From CHRIS BAKER, Wired,  14 Aug 2009
Related Topics: The Beatles,  Yoko Ono,  Paul McCartney,  Olivia Harrison,  Ringo Starr

Question Period: Be warned

We've sent an email to  containing a URL you'll need to follow to verify your account. You should receive the email within the next few minutes. PLEASE NOTE: Your Globe and Mail account will expire after 2 days if not validated as described in the ...

From CHRIS BAKER, Globe and Mail,  3 Jul 2009

Top 10 Game Trailers From E3

Chris Baker also contributed to this article. LOS ANGELES — Going to the Electronic Entertainment Expo is all about playing videogames, but sometimes it’s extremely fun just to watch. Teaser trailers for newly announced titles never fail to get E3 ...

From CHRIS KOHLER AND CHRIS BAKER, Wired,  10 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Konami,  Chris Baker,  Hideo Kojima

How Legendary Puzzle Game Fool’s Errand Came to Be

So you’ve heard of legendary videogame designers Will Wright, Shigeru Miyamoto, and…Cliff Johnson? Maybe not that last one. But Johnson, 55, is renowned in the computer gaming underworld, and it’s all because of his undying cult classic, The Fool’s ...

From CHRIS BAKER, Wired,  22 May 2009
Related Topics: Cliff Johnson,  Shigeru Miyamoto,  Will Wright,  Microsoft Corporation

Spoiler Alert! Solving the Hidden Metapuzzle in Wired’s May Issue

A hidden metapuzzle threads through the pages of this month’s issue of Wired magazine, which is built around the theme of magic and mystery. “There are things occurring within these pages that are not apparent at first or second glance,” wrote ...

From CHRIS BAKER, Wired,  14 May 2009
Related Topics: WIRED Magazine,  J J Abrams

Why You Need to Play Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

The game looks very much like the classic Grand Theft Auto 2, with a top-down camera perspective showing a bird's-eye-view of simple 3-D environments and automobiles. But the game also incorporates some features that made last year's Grand Theft Auto 4 ...

From CHRIS BAKER, Wired,  1 Apr 2009

OnLive's 'Cloud Gaming' Could Be a Game-Changer

San Francisco, March 24, 2009 -- OnLive Inc., the pioneer of the on-demand era of videogames, today emerged from seven years of stealth development within the Rearden incubator to unveil The OnLive Game Service and OnLive MicroConsole at the 2009 Game ...

From CHRIS BAKER, Wired,  24 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Electronic Arts Inc.,  Ubisoft,  THQ Inc.,  Codemasters

Live Free or Drown: Floating Utopias on the Cheap

Several dozen conference-goers are filing into the Mendocino Room of the Embassy Suites Hotel in Burlingame, a San Francisco suburb, arming themselves with coffee and muffins as they shuffle to their seats. It's the kind of scene that occurs daily—if ...

From CHRIS BAKER, Wired,  27 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

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