The Game of Romance: An Interview with Melissa Heidrich of PassionFruit Games Melissa Heidrich is Studio Director of PassionFruit Games. PassionFruit Games was founded by a fellowship of slightly insane individuals who decided it was a great idea to risk everything in a startup and make the game they wanted, rather than work for the (wo)man. Our fellowship has created games together since 2006, the latest one receiving Yahoo’s ... Submitted: on 30th Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Games · Interview · Romance · The Game · Together · WantedBooks overtake games as most numerous iPhone apps In what is predicted to be a pivotal year for ebooks, with next month's iPad launch, the number of books available as iPhone apps now exceeds the number of games The electronic book passed another milestone this month, with the number of books available on the iTunes App Store passing the number of games for the first time. According to data released earlier this month by the mobile phone adv... Submitted: 2 days ago Tags: · The · What · Ebooks · Electronic Book · Games · Passing · WhatCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins “If it were up to me, I would try to forget the Hunger Games entirely. Never speak of them. Pretend they were nothing but a bad dream. But the Victory Tour makes that impossible. Strategically placed almost midway between the annual Games, it is the Capitol’s way of keeping the horror fresh and immediate. Not Submitted: on 22nd Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Up · Games · Horror · Hunger · Suzanne · Suzanne Collins · The Hunger Games · VictoryBooks Now Outnumber Games in the iTunes App Store Apple's iTunes App store is a growing source for content. People download a wide variety of apps from navigation tools to shopping aids, but they also buy games and books on iTunes. Mobclix reports that the number of book apps on iTunes now outnumbers the number of games. You can see the latest chart here, which shows there are nearly 27,000 book apps on iTunes. Penguin's digital publish... Submitted: 4 hours ago Tags: · The · Apple · Books On · Download · Games · Publish · ShoppingThe cover for the 3rd Hunger Games book! You might have seen the cover for Mockingjay, the third book in the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzane Collins–but just in case you haven’t, here’s a sneak preview! Submitted: on 11th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Games · Games Book · Hunger · The Hunger Games10 literary classics that should be video games Dante’s Inferno has been turned into a video game. His multi-layered vision of Hell may be lost on many spotty-faced teenage gamers. Wired comes up trumps and gives us the 10 literary classics that should be video games. What no Shakespeare! Submitted: on 10th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Up · What · Games · Literary · Lost · Shakespeare · UpViolence in Video Games, Pros and Cons I found an interesting website this morning while cruising for information regarding this deep-running debate. The site discusses the pros and cons of video game violence research and how it affects children. I have kids…they won’t be playing games outside their age range. But what do you think? Does the blame rest squarely on the ... Submitted: 1 day ago Tags: · children · information · The · What · Games · TheFun Inc., By Tom ChatfieldA Casual Revolution, By Jesper Juul Those of us who have been dented in a tender financial place by the latest tera-byte crunching games platform may be up for a little intellectual justification of our Xmas spending. So here are two crackers: Tom Chatfield's Fun Inc. is the most elegant and comprehensive defence of the status of computer games in our culture I have read, as well as a helpful compendium of research. And Jesper ... Submitted: on 15th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Up · Games · Inc. · UpAliens vs. Predator Just a big shout out to our colleagues in Rebellion Video Games, who you may or may not know that we at Solaris Books share an office with. Their recently released game Aliens vs. Predator is currently number one on all platforms in the UK, beating games such as BioShock 2! It's also the fastest-selling game in the UK of 2010! Props to be you, guys! Guess all those months of making us poor pu... Submitted: on 25th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · uk · Games · Rebellion · Solaris · ukDarksiders (PS3) First Impressions Darksiders: Wrath of War, the first game released in 2010 for XBox 360 and PS3, made some waves with its familiar and almost rip-off-worthy game-play. But can a game that borrows heavily from games like God of War and The Legend of Zelda set itself apart and secure an identity for itself, or will it go down in history as nothing more than a blatant maneuver by Vigil Games to take the easy developm... Submitted: on 14th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Games · History · Legend Of Zelda · The Legend · The Legend Of Zelda
