"Skillzie hacked together a portable turntable and Guitar Hero controller. His invention is called the Scratch Blaster. Based on the video demo, it looks like, well, a blast!"
This looks really cool: an open platform for creating massively multiplayer virtual worlds. Objects in the games you make--like characters, buildings, flowers, whatever--have the ability to talk talk and post to the web, so they could export rss feeds, or pull in links from delicious, and that sort of thing.
I've signed up for an alpha account but haven't heard word yet. I'm interested in seeing how you develop for the platform and how open it really is.
An article about Paul Preece, creator of Desktop Tower Defense and handdrawngames.com, who is raking in high 4 figure monthly Adsense revenue by releasing a free, low-budget flash game and promoting it through stumbleupon and digg.
"An adventurous and skillful modder has managed to turn a Wii remote into an Xbox 360 controller with middleware help from the PS2 control scheme -- it's as if all the console makers are working in harmony for this one hack."
Check out this little microsite for Microsoft's Visual Studio. They created a bunch of short machinema videos and allow others to submit. Pretty smart way to embrace the gamer audience...maybe.