Entrepreneurship

There’s something happening in New York Tech Scene: The female community is finding and establishing itself among the ranks of the techies in the Big Apple.   For a lot of reasons New York is not Silicon Valley, where the culture has matured to the point that everyone seems to look and dress the same; [...]

Most game designers pitch their work by describing how immersive their experience is, how it will suck a player in and joyfully consume their free time. Not Dinofarm Games, the creator of this week’s featured Kickstarter project: Auro: The Golden Prince. Dinofarm is best known for their last release, 100 Rogues — a successful iOS [...]

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Urban farming is catching on as more and more people are getting interested in DIY projects and locally-grown food, but it still remains something of a niche that is held back from wider popularity by interested parties living in climates with harsh winters or, say, a lack of space. Windowfarms, this week’s featured Kickstarter project, [...]

Beyond the Game, despite sharing a name with a 2008 documentary about videogame culture, is a brand new film about, well, videogame culture. No, no, no! Don’t go just yet! This is a different project with a much different focus — and one with a current Kickstarter campaign deserving some attention from game players and [...]

There’s something happening in New York Tech Scene: The female community is finding and establishing itself among the ranks of the techies in the Big Apple.   For a lot of reasons New York is not Silicon Valley, where the culture has matured to the point that everyone seems to look and dress the same; [...]

Any form of communication that’s able to spread awareness of important social issues is well worth supporting. This week’s featured Kickstarter project, Art as a Weapon, is looking to use the crowdsourcing website to help inform its audience about the repressive junta ruling Burma and how art is being used, within and outside of the [...]

There are certain words that lose all meaning after having been said, heard or written too many times. I expect “Kentucky” to become that word for both you and I by the end of this week’s featured Kickstarter campaign: Kentucky for Kentucky. . . . Kentucky. Kentucky for Kentucky is a pretty ingenious concept, started [...]

A whole lot of what we talk about when we talk about videogames has to do with how they look. With everyone hyping the cutting-edge graphics of big releases and the bulk of indies relying on unique art styles to set themselves apart, it’s pretty easy to think of playing games as a mainly visual [...]

You can be forgiven if you weren’t aware of Mongolian hip-hop until you just read this sentence; I wasn’t until happening upon a Kickstarter project intending to capture the rising genre through a feature-length documentary. It probably shouldn’t be surprising to see how fully-formed and unique Mongolia’s hip-hop scene is considering the music/culture’s proliferation throughout [...]

Some of the most exciting projects in videogames these days are from extremely driven and talented amateur developers. For all of the bombast and spectacle of modern, big-budget games, the most interesting work is usually being done by small teams. This week’s featured Kickstarter project, Crystal Catacombs, shows just how a single, ambitious and determined [...]

Augmented reality games (or ARGs if you’re one of the cool kids) could very well transform how we see our world. By allowing us to use technology to interface with what is actually in front of us instead of concentrating on a display screen, ARGs transform the mundane into something new and exciting. Metropoli, a [...]