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IGF Seumas McNally grand prize winner Richard Hofmeier, the man behind Cart Life, vandalized his own booth on the GDC show floor and handed it over to Porpentine, the developer behind text adventure Howling Dogs.

Hofmeier hit up Porpentine on Twitter on Thursday morning, to kindly request he show Howling Dogs at his "booth thing." Oh, you know, just that booth for the awards that Cart Life totally swept last night. No big deal. Porpentine responded in the affirmative, and Hofmeier got to work tagging his own sign.

"IM REALLY EXCITED ABOUT HOWLING DOGS WINNING THE IGF," Porpentine later tweeted. For those at GDC, check out Howling Dogs in the IGF booth roundup in Moscone South. You can't miss it. Everyone else, play it here.

IGF grand prize winner gives his booth away to 'Howling Dogs' originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New York Times

The 10 Must-See Debuts from the 2013 New York Auto Show - Feature Car and Driver With hustle and bustle of the 2013 New York auto show press days drawing to a close, we've gathered the 10 production and concept debuts from the Big Apple you absolutely must pay attention to. Many of the rides on this list are here simply because they're ... Subaru debuts aggressive WRX concept, first-ever hybrid in New YorkMLive.com Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid is Automaker's First Step Towards 2017-ish Plug-In ...InsideEVs Subaru CEO Trolls Internet, Confirms Next-Generation WRX STI After WRX ...automotive.com (blog) RoadandTrack.com all 115 news articles »

Globe and Mail

Google offers same-day delivery service (with a few catches) Christian Science Monitor Google Shopping Express is a challenge to competitors such as Amazon. By Matthew Shaer / March 28, 2013. Google Shopping Express will be rolled out initially to residents of the Bay Area. Google. Enlarge. Google has launched a same-day shopping and ... Get Those Jeans Delivered Today Via GoogleCIO Game On, Google: eBay Now Same-Day Delivery Service Expands To Chicago ...TechCrunch Google tests same-day deliveryBicycle Retailer Seeking Alpha -InternetRetailer.com -WSAU all 52 news articles »

CTV News

Amazon to Buy Social Site Dedicated to Sharing Books New York Times Amazon, the dominant online bookseller, said late Thursday that it would buy Goodreads, the most visited social media site built around sharing books. The companies did not disclose a purchase price or other conditions of the sale, which will close in the ... Amazon Adds a Piece to Its Growing E-book EmpireBusinessweek Amazon's Acquisition of Goodreads: The True Ventures PerspectiveXconomy Under Amazon's Wing, Goodreads Plans Closer Integration While Retaining Its ...TechCrunch Forbes -NPR (blog) -Los Angeles Times all 67 news articles »

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Angela Barrett - Beauty and the Beast

one of my favorite illustrated versions of the tale.

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If you're from the future and have your own 3D printer, you can customize your Ouya console with a 3D-printed case.

Ouya posted a 3D model for the console on Thingiverse, allowing 3D printer users to customize the box with whatever materials and colors they have, and print their very own. You could even try to edit the model to add features to the thing. The designs are "optimized" for the MakerBot Replicator 2, a device that really exists and that people can buy.

If you're at GDC this week, you can see the results of this art project for yourself. Meanwhile, Ouyas will begin shipping out to Kickstarter backers tomorrow.

You can totally 3D print your own Ouya case originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The 2013 IGF awards have wrapped up at GDC in San Francisco, with Richard Hofmeier and Cart Life taking home the Seumas McNally Grand Prize of $30,000, the Nuovo Award for innovation, which snags $5,000, and the Excellence in Narrative award for $3,000. Cart Life is a simulation game about the hard times facing food cart vendors in small-town, USA, and as demonstrated by the screenshot above, it's more dramatic than you may expect.

If you want to brag to your friends about playing the latest in hot indie games, you can pick it up on Steam now for a sale price of $3.50.

Subset Games' space-based strategy game FTL: Faster Than Light picked up two awards at IGF 2013, Excellence in Design and the Audience award. Kentucky Route Zero and Cardboard Computer grabbed the Excellence in Visual Art award, 140 got the Audio prize and Little Inferno is Technically Excellent, according to the IGF.

Check out the entire list of winners below. Congrats to all the winners!

Continue reading IGF 2013: And the awards go to... Cart Life!

IGF 2013: And the awards go to... Cart Life! originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It looks like Google is backtracking on some of the Glass Explorer invitations it’s sent out over the past few days. Back in February, the company gave people the opportunity to pay $1,500 for early access to the headset by telling the company what they would do with the device, either by posting to Google+ or tweeting with the hashtag #ifihadglass. Now, after starting to announce winners, the Glass team is taking a step back, saying that while it needs "honest feedback" from people who are "skeptical and critical" of Glass, a few of the applications it’s received don’t jibe with the program’s terms and conditions.

With #ifihadglass we set out to find a truly diverse group of Explorers, and that’s certainly what we’ve gotten. We need honest feedback from people who are not only enthralled and excited by Glass, but also people who are skeptical and critical of it. That said, it’s become clear that a few applications that don’t comply with our terms have slipped through the cracks, and we’re going to have to disqualify applications like these. As for the rest of you, please keep that feedback coming – it’s all in the Explorer program spirit!

So what kinds of applications are being disqualified after being accepted? So far, the Glass team has only posted two to Twitter:

They definitely do seem to contravene Google's guidelines:

"It must not be derogatory, offensive, threatening, defamatory, disparaging, libelous or contain any content that is inappropriate, indecent, sexual, profane, indecent, tortuous, slanderous, discriminatory in any way, or that promotes hatred or harm against any group or person, or otherwise does not comply with the theme and spirit of #ifihadglass."

In hindsight, it might have been a better idea to vet these in advance.

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Double Fine has shared the first footage of Broken Age, the studio's upcoming adventure game starring a girl who is to be fed to a giant monster, and a boy living on a space station with his only companion, a computer.

Double Fine debuts trailer for Broken Age originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BBC News

Pope Francis shuns grand apartment for two rooms BBC News Pope Francis has decided to shun a grand papal apartment on the top floor of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace in favour of a modest two-room residence. His spokesman said he was "trying out this type of simple living" in a communal building with other priests. and more »

Ziggy played guitar

A new study suggests that female entrepreneurs are significantly less likely to get funding than their male counterparts — unless they come from a technical background.

“A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”

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Gustavo Petro, Mayor of Bogota

(h/t @gusseting )

Mar 27th 2013 By: Andy Khouri

This week, as the Supreme Court of the United States deliberates on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act -- which defines marriage for federal purposes as between a man and a woman -- Americans and friends from around the world have been expressing their support for marriage equality by adopting the Human Rights Campaign's logo as their temporary social media icons. It didn't take long for people to get creative with the highly Photoshoppable image, and what's resulted is an endless series of remixes that, as you might expect, contains more than a few versions that appeal to our tastes here at ComicsAlliance.

ComicsAlliance Senior Editor Andy Khouri used the artwork of JH Williams III and Cully Hamner to produce the HRC logo above, referencing the relationship between lesbian superheroes Batwoman and The Question. You can check out some more of our favorites below.

The original HRC equality logo:

The remixes (creators linked when available):

By Jorge Colombo

By Dean Trippe

By David C. Cobb

By Jessica Linker

By Visible Friends Network

This one's not particularly geeky but I just love it:

You can see more variations at the Human Rights Campaign Flickr feed, and others are being compiled at the Equality Logos Tumblr.

An account from the paper of record of a fatal fight that raged as the elevator flew up and down the shaft.

by Azovsky

Developer Almost Human released the first screenshot of Legend of Grimrock 2 this week, and it's a lot greener, less dungeon-y then expected. In announcing the follow-up to the 2012 action-RPG last month, Almost Human's Petri Häkkinen mentioned a "big engine update," and that looks to have gone into something very outdoorsy. Check out a larger 1080p sample here.

Last week, Häkkinen revealed some of the rejected ideas for Legend of Grimrock 2, namely a roguelike amalgamated with the first game's ethos, and, more pertinently, a much more exploration-based game in the outside of the Northern Realms. Grimrock's world. However, Häkkinen noted that Almost Human believes the charm of Grimrock is "compactness, tight focus and emphasis on fun core gameplay."

Based on that, it sounds like Grimrock 2 isn't going to deviate too far from the first game's style, but it looks like it may offer a bit more fresh air.

Take your first, singular look at the greenery of Legend of Grimrock 2 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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angry tapir writes "When Oracle purchased Sun, many in the open source community were bleak about the future of MySQL. According to MySQL co-creator Michael "Monty" Widenius, these fears have been proven by Oracle's attitude to MySQL and its community. In the wake of the Sun takeover, Monty forked MySQL to create MariaDB, which has picked up momentum (being included by default in Fedora, Open SUSE and, most recently, Slackware). I recently interviewed Monty about what he learned from the MySQL experience and the current state of MariaDB."

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A Google Ideas-funded study found that American street gang members use the Internet mainly for self-promotion and posting YouTube videos.

i… found your tumblr, son. welcome to the force here’s your gun/badge your first case is “who’s grounded” it’s you turn in your bagde & gun

— LeVar Burzum (@drugleaf) January 1, 2012

Twitter: The Comic is a Tumblr blog by Boston-based cartoonist Mike Rosenthal (aka “VectorBelly“) that features a drawn collection of four-panel comic strips based on amusing tweets dug up from Twitter.

No! I just got bit by a Dad. I feel the transformation starting *goes to Home Depot & buys materials to build a deck* I’M GONNA BUILD A DECK

— JONNY (@Jonny_Wags) July 16, 2012

WELCOME TO APPLEBEES MAY I TAKE YOUR ORDER. DID U SAY “A PLATE OF SPIDERS” TOO LATE HERE IT COMES. U HAVE TO EAT IT ALL OR WE CALL THE COPS

— ben errrrrrrrrrrrrrr (@MuscularSon) May 5, 2011

I HAVE RESERVATIONS FOR TWO “hm not finding your name sir” MAYBE THIS RARE MEWTWO CARD WILL HELP YOU REMEMBER “right this way sir”

— CAKE SMOTH (@CAKETENDO64) February 12, 2012

“Someone’s been sleeping in my bed!” said mommy bear. “Who hasn’t” muttered daddy bear. “What?! You wanna do this now, in front of the kid!”

— A Mean Crow (@mean_crow) November 9, 2012

president obama…..isnt it fucked up and weird to try and imagine two pterodactyls having sex. imagine the noises. i dont have a question.

— GENERAL GANDHI (@Bro_Pair) October 21, 2012

Thanks Nate Olson!

This two-year-old “bedtime bandit” uses open fingernail clippers to pick the lock to his sister’s room and steals her pillow pet in a video uploaded by YouTube user Joann Moser.

via Reddit

In his time as a 10-year-old, Bart Simpson has lived through seven generations of videogames.

Less apps, more apples.

Carlsberg brewery has launched a clever advertising campaign parodying the iconic Apple Store for its new Somersby Cider. Customers rush into a Somersby Cider store on launch day, where store representatives explain the cider’s features using a number of hilarious apple puns.

via Digg

On December 20, 1996 Mac OS Evangelist Tim Holmes was working late at the company's Cupertino headquarters, when suddenly, his manager came rushing by. He told Holmes to head to "Town Hall," Apple's big meeting room. Steve Jobs was back at Apple.

“The Walken Dead”

New York City-based street artist Hanksy recently hit the streets of Los Angeles and created a new series of pun-filled pop culture street art to promote his upcoming solo art show at Gallery1988 Melrose, which opens on Friday, May 24, 2013. His prep work did not come without a price though. While putting up “Weird Gal Yankovic” on the corner of Melrose and La Brea Avenue, he was nabbed by the cops and put in handcuffs. We have previously written about Hanksy and his entertaining works of art.

Welcomed to #LA with handcuffs and sirens. “Weird Gal” got halfway up on Melrose/LaBrea before the… instagram.com/p/XRjsXFNfEj/

— Christopher Lee Rios (@HanksyNYC) March 25, 2013

“Weird Gal Yankovic”

“Pee-Wee Merman”

“Cage Against The Machine”

“Ellen Degeneres as a Dinosaur”

“Ghost-Buster Bluth”

“Bradley Pooper”

photos by Jared Soule

via Neatorama