Amy pointed this out to me earlier in the week. Worth a read. Goes into the fascinating game design theory and process for Cranium‘s games, and some of the things they are working on for the smaller gamers among us. My brother Seth gave me Cranium for my birthday this year, and it’s clearly a great product. LINK (NYTimes, Free Registration Required, Archived after Two Weeks)
Mall Mayhem Infographics
You know those safety info cards in the seat pocket in front of you on the airplane? The ones you sort of stopped looking at like ten years ago since you fly way too much? There is, I think, a certain charm to those graphics, telling you what to do if everything goes to hell in a handbasket. Anyway, here’s a set of infocards explaining how to riot at your local mall. Nice, eh? Via Consumer Whore. LINK.
ArtPad: A Masterpiece in Minutes
Unleash your inner Da Vinci. Head over to Art.com and try out their ArtPad, a slick little app built in Flash that allows you to paint a lovely picture. Click here to see my handiwork.
Rainbow Six Quattro
No, it’s not a new razor. The wrapping has come off some early screenshots of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 4, and boy does it look great (via Joystiq). Reportedly coming in Spring 2005, Gamespot is showing some great screenshots, and has a short preview. GameGossip has some alternate screenshots, too. By Spring, I’ll have to be using the headphones when playing this one, with the expected baby Trotz probably not taking so well to the sound of Willie Petes ‘xploding all over the place.