Kill Screen Magazine's Blog, page 316
November 11, 2014
Create intense imagery, calming music with this playful visualizer
Become a great artist in, say, ten seconds.
Games could learn a thing or two from confessional poetry's history
How confessional gaming is slowly growing a presence.
And The Moment Is Gone reveals the impossibility of human relationships
This Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind inspired game shows the sublime futility of human relationships.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is, thankfully, a bit grossed out by war
Holding square will get you nowhere.
November 10, 2014
Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic gets demade into an NES game
A digression about digressions.
The less you know about The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo, the better
‘Scuse us while we bury this lede.
All those vacant stores in shopping malls are being turned in data centers
Malls and department stores both have generous amounts of space, so with many vacancies still left unfilled after the recession, there’s a need to find replacement entities that can make efficient use of of the ample room.
An answer to this problem is to buy the space and fill it up with servers, converting the entire establishment into a data center. The change holds a touch of irony to it, with many stores having struggled to keep up with online shopping’s rising dominance, only to be repurposed to further that goal.
“Who else wants them?” said Brian Vandegrift, executive vice president of sales for Venyu Solutions LLC, in an article for The Wall Street Journal. “You’re not competing with people in substantial businesses who want those spaces.”
Data centers have been traditionally known to the mainstream as in off the beaten path locations, such as the headquarters of Bahnhof, a Swedish ISP, built in a former Cold War bunker, or one of Google’s centers in rural Douglas County, Georgia.
As Americans increase their Internet use and its use becomes ingrained into our daily lives, the exponential necessity of more server sites rises, thus, the encroachment of the digital frontier may just get a little closer to home.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
The unexpected charms of Pokémon Art Academy
You grow up, but you never leave.
A game that lets you endure the endless labor of Sisyphus
The classic metaphor for futility ... on the go!
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