Recent content by John Keefer

Yes, it was. Thanks. And I appreciate the Escapist posting it from Shacknews. I will still poke in here from time to time.

Met the man several times, the last at QuakeCon in 2014. He has matured a lot and regrets some of his younger transgressions. Really a good guy.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/94156/what-is-hoxar-inc-apparently-john-romero-knows This could be interesting. Curious to see how it pans out.

26,000-Figure Playmobil Diorama Depicts Carthage Vs. Rome An avid Playmobil collector has set up a diorama depicting the Battle of Zama in what may turn out to be a world record. The battle was epic ... and so was the set-up. Playmobil collector Jean-Michel Leuillier has been...

BioWare's New Secret IP Revealed On A T-Shirt at GDC [tweet t=https://twitter.com/Al_McNally/status/710951296971481088] BioWare's senior director of creative development wore a T-shirt to GDC last week with the company's new top-secret IP emblazoned on it. No one noticed. BioWare has...

Thanks. Will adjust.

New Software Tech Allows Believable Manipulation of Faces in Videos As if it wasn't hard enough already to believe what you see and hear on the Internet, new software is being developed that allows you to manipulate the faces and mouth movements of people in existing videos. Imagine, if...

Female Robot Wants a Family, Then to Destroy Humanity SXSW just concluded, but not before bringing us some technological advancements in robotics that may soon have us wondering if the person standing next to us is real or a robot. When you say robotics, you could think of anything from...

I checked several sites and only "Bolt" appears, not Boat. And the "name our ship" site is still down. Do you have a link where you saw it as Boat?

Napkin Art Shows What Dwells in the Depths of Tim Burton's Brain The Napkin Art of Tim Burton: Things You Think about in a Bar takes you on a wild ride through the mind of Tim Burton, leaving you wondering just what he was drinking when he drew these. OK, so yes, I was scrolling through...

Trailer For Tim Burton's New Film Has A Lot of Peculiar Children The new trailer for Tim Burton's new film looks like a cross between Harry Potter and the X-Men, and it is downright impressive. Anything from the mind of Tim Burton will usually leave you asking yourself "what did I just...

New Royal Research Ship Could Be Named Boaty McBoatface When the Natural Environment Research Council called for input on names for its new multi-million dollar research vessel, it probably didn't expect Boaty McBoatface to be leading its competition by a wide margin. This is when...

Dead 7 Reunites Boy Bands in Zombie Killing Western for SyFy The Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync are going at it in a new zombie killing movie for the SyFy Channel. No, we aren't making that up. This may or may not interest you, depending on your affinity for older boy bands. But we'll give...

Own 10 Or More Games On Steam? You Are Too Core For Many Developers The debate of core gamer vs. casual gamer has been around for awhile now, but one developer was bold enough to say that, on the whole, core gamers as a group "don't matter" to most game developers any more. You've...

Search For Young Han Solo Actor For Star Wars Spin-off Narrows to Short List Han Solo may be gone, but not forgotten, as Disney has apparently narrowed the field of actors to play the flamboyant smuggler in a Star Wars prequel origin story. Disney has been hunting...