If you haven't already seen it, there is an interview with Elan Lee at Gamasutra. Bonnie Ruberg interviews Elan Lee, VP of 42 Entertainment. He talks about The Beast (ARG for the film A.I.),  I Love Bees (ARG for Halo 2), EDOC Laundry (ARG t-shirt) and Cathy's Book (an ARG book...a book that ...

I really like this recent creative work by Blast Theory: Soft Message. They put a request out (which I published here too), on BBC Radio 3, for people to register their interest in being called by them. They called them over a week period and then broadcast them in a ...

Interesting article by Scott Nixon on 'The Pros and Cons of Licensing' digital games, available at Gamasutra. Check out: www.gamasutra.com/features/20061205/nixon_01.shtml

Hoodlum Entertainment, the company behind the multi-platform dramas Fat Cow Motel and more recently PSTrixi, have created a multi-platform drama that for UK broadcaster the Independent Television Network (called 'ITV'). Here is info from Tracey Swedlow's [itvt]: Dubbed the "Emmerdale Channel," the new project will launch on Christmas Day, in association with ...

Have a look at what Michela Ledwidge is doing at ModFilms, a site for people to do remixes of films. She is also working on a 'massively multiplayer online movie' called Sanctuary. It is described as follows: Sanctuary is an experimental sci-fi short due for release 2006. The project, now in VFX ...

In the style of Mission Impossible II Global Hunt, but with interesting characters, is a new internet game created by Big Spaceship: Our Casino Royale multiplayer strategy game gives users the chance to help Bond in his mission. A would-be bomber is picking up a large sum of money for a terrorist ...

[itvt], the world-leading newsletter on interactive television run by Tracey Swedlow, are running their own industry event: The TV of Tomorrow Show on March 13th-14th in California. It will be the first industry event to focus exclusively on the delivery of interactive TV on multiple platforms (e.g. cable, satellite, telco TV, ...

 The 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Gaming Applications has put out a call for papers and a call for games: The PerGames series of international symposia addresses the design and technical issues of bringing computer entertainment back to the real world with pervasive games. Previous PerGames events were held in Vienna ...

RealTime Magazine, an arts magazine that I write for here in Oz, commissioned me to write an article introducing Second Life. Here it is: A Second Life Living Online.

The current issue of Reconstruction (vol 6, no 4), Theories/Practices of Blogging, was years in the making. Michael Benton and Lauren Elkin, the editors, have been searching for papers on blogging; seaching for bloggers to commission to write on blogging and searching for bloggers to just blog about blogging. Jeremy ...