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Recently, Zimmer took time to talk about the experience. "I thoroughly enjoyed it," he said. "It makes it very exciting for me to work with people who tell stories in an entirely different way." The game is all about modern warfare. Not to be confused with modern asymmetrical warfare where stability equals security plus development. Oh, no. We're talking exploding pixels and blowing shit up. Flaming helicopters tumbling out of the sky. Outrageous carnage in outer space. Raw emotion as best

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It's hard to put a good face on this kind of news. In the US, the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) reports that newspaper circulation for the six months ending September 30 dropped 10.6 percent from the same period in 2008 (7.5 percent on Sundays - so there must be a god). The decline was the worst ever reported by ABC. You think that's bad news? Wait until the Newspaper Association of America's third-quarter advertising revenue report comes out. It's likely to continue the trend of the previ

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For some the money's on gaming, but new research from Flurry is surprisingly different: eBook apps are overtaking games in the App Store. Between launch and August of this year, games outnumbered book apps and dedicated books in the catalog, comprising some 16-17% of all apps in July and August of 2009. But in late August of this year, book apps, which had been growing all along, overtook games, and by October games were just 13% of apps while books were 20% of the total. Probably the most surp

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The founder of Legendary Pictures has financed a string of runaway hits, from the "Batman" franchise to "300" to "The Hangover" (no, see it - and if you've seen it see it gain). His knack for spinning nerdy dude fare into box office gold, coupled with a plum coproduction deal with Warner Bros., has made him a major Hollywood player. That's especially impressive for a 39-year-old who entered the biz less than five years ago. The cinema and videogame buff came to film from the world of venture cap

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Tillinghast was included in Huffington Post's writeup of the top 100 game changers in new media. Also on the list of innovators, visionaries and leaders are Jason Kilar from Hulu, NetFlix founder Reed Hastings and Andrew Donohue from Voice of San Diego. But don't take the the Huff's words on it. Click through the slideshow, get the lowdown on why they chose them, then vote for yourself.

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In her case, though, the irresistible temptation was the internet. Those mythical bird-women (look it up) didn’t seduce with beauty or carnality - not with petty diversions - but with the promise of unending knowledge. "Over all the generous earth we know everything that happens," they crooned to passing ships, vowing that any sailor who heeded their voices would emerge a wiser man." That is precisely the draw of the internet. But there's a big difference between drowning in a sea of informatio

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Even for Hollywood, where long odds and high stakes are staples of storytelling, the plotline is a doozy: A couple of old business rivals facing the threat of a lifetime agree to put aside their differences and join forces on a half-baked experiment that makes them laughingstocks. (We're thinking Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty.) And who do they put in charge? A young guy, a newbie to the biz. He promptly cleans house and hires an even younger guy who's halfway around the globe. These renegades

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John Goscha, at the ripe old age of 25 ditched a job offer at Goldman Sachs, and instead began marketing IdeaPaint, which is simply a paint that turns any paintable surface into a dry-erase board. The benefit - besides being able to brainstorm on almost every inch of your office - is that the paint is half the cost of whiteboard and better-performing - you can leave marks up indefinitely, and they won't stain the wall. Of course, it takes a bit of time - you may have to sand the wall and prime i

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