Tag archive: Monkey Island

Published on Kickstarter during Wednesday night, Double Fine Productions, founded by Tim Schafer, created a new video game project on the site with the goal of raising $400,000 over a period of  33 days. Double Fine Productions is responsible for games such as Psychonauts, Brutal Legend starring Jack Black, Costume Quest and Stacking. Detailed in the outline of the project, the $400,000 would be invested in the development of an unnamed,… Read More

Bill was and is unique in this industry and changed a lot over the course of time he ran Microsoft. He started out as one of the barbarians challenging the hated status quo and eventually became a part of the new hated status quo for the following generation. He, and Microsoft, provide a cautionary tale for Google in that just as Google has positioned itself with its “do no evil” model as the anti-Microsoft, Microsoft… Read More

These last two weeks have been interesting. Before CES, Warner Brothers basically gave up on HD DVD and Toshiba (in what was an amazing lack of good judgment) clearly putting HD DVD on the ropes (and the newly lowered prices came too late to make a difference). This was followed by CES which really lacked anything that I would call a true break-out new product of the iPod or iPhone caliber. This week we had MacWorld, and while it is… Read More