formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
A new exhibition in Berlin shows how the notoriously paranoid East German state greeted the dawn of video gaming with surprising enthusiasm… Source: Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games | Games | The Guardian
The IGDA Foundation broadened its reach by attending the world’s biggest video games event this summer – but faces challenges funding its work helping underrepresented developers. Source: The non-profit helping people from all over the world to become successful game … Continued
A new outfit aiming to bridge the gap between brand-funded production and art-house filmmaking will be announced as MIPCOM and BrandStorytelling move the focus to brand-funded content on the first day of the market. Lief Entertainment Company is the brainchild … Continued
Art historian believes he has pinned down Vermeer’s muse to obscure Dutch religious sect. Source: Identity of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring ‘discovered after 360 years’
Sir Ridley Scott has said he only watches his own films because most modern movies are “mediocre”.The 87-year-old Oscar-nominated director of Alien, Gladiator and Blade Runner lamented that the film industry was “drowning in mediocrity”. Source: Ridley Scott: I only … Continued
Many industry executives look back at the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Paramount (then Viacom) against YouTube in 2007 as a signpost of an era when linear broadcasters and online video platforms just couldn’t play nice, let alone … Continued