Creation of the original PlayStation

This article has a retrospective on how the original PlayStation was conceived. Pretty interesting stuff.

From Edge Online via Gizmodo.

Couple o' Trailers

First up, Duncan Jones' Moon — starring Sam Rockwell and the voice of Kevin Spacey — an indie sci-fi picture that has echoes of 2001, Silent Running, Alien, Solaris, and more:

The score is by Clint Mansell, and the poster is worth a look as well.

Secondly, Idiocracy's Mike Judge returns to the office space (har har) for his next film, Extract, starring Michael BluthJason Bateman, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis, and J.K. Simmons:

"She's a tramp!?"

Rose Ball

Anybody here ever play it?

From what I've read:

this is Street Fighter IV, in practice mode. Both players are handicapped so they have a pixel of health, and both have selected Rose as their character. They are playing best of 9. At the beginning of each round, one of them “serves” by performing Rose’s “Soul Spark” move - a half-circle towards on the joystick, and a punch button. Then, they take it in turns to perform her “Soul Reflect”, which can reverse projectiles; this is a quarter-cirlce away on the stick, with a punch button. Whoever fails to time the parry correctly will get hit by the “ball”, and the other player will win the round.

So: they’re playing Pong, inside Street Fighter IV.

The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One

I didn't want to include links to things related to this kind of stuff, but I don't know that there is anything off limits here, and the interview itself moved me enough to put it up. I got the link from a fellow Hydran and felt it was worthy enough to get this out there into the netherverse. The link is an excellent interview with Bill Moyers about the economic mess and the aftermath. It gets more disgusting the more people expound on this. Hopefully people like William K. Black can get something going.

Gaming on the Cloud

Now this is an interesting idea, cloud computing for gaming. Whether or not it will work has yet to be seen.

[Part 1, Part 2 - via Joystiq]