Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age

Yinglian Xie:  "With the market booming so favorable, it is not surprising that online criminals have also found their way into the ecosystem and are creating a thriving underground market for in-game virtual goods. How do they pull this off? Here are a few attack techniques we’ve observed in the wild."

Seth Northrop and Li Zhu:  "Not only do [streaming] services provide a community for video game fanatics, streamers can earn good money through advertisement sharing and viewer donations, and can further leverage their growing popularity into brand deals or other sponsorships."

Liz England:  "A lot of developers (and some gamers) are kind of aware there’s this tool called “Twine” out there that makes web games, but don’t really know much about it. They don’t know why it’s popular and what it’s used for" ...

Jessica Conditt:  "Virtual reality was the belle of this year's Sundance Film Festival. Immersive exhibitions displayed on face-hugging headsets told powerful stories in lifelike worlds, in 360 degrees and with the viewer in control of the camera. [ ... ]  But, now, the buzz is fading and a question remains: Do filmmakers in Hollywood think that virtual reality is the future of cinema?"

Tomas Rawlings:  "The open waters of the internet have provided a space for experimentation and video games have been innovative with a series of video experiments. Here’s five examples of how video games have been re-defining video whilst TV was looking the other way" ...

Damien Lawardorn:  "The real reason behind its creation [Scheherazade-IF], says Riedl, “is to probe the bounds of questions of how to get a computer to reason about, create, and understand narrative.” Given that humans are raised on stories, and make them a part of our everyday lives, Riedl’s goal is vital for any artificial intelligence if we want it to understand us."

Naomi Alderman:  "Video games could be the greatest storytelling medium of our age – if only the worlds of art and technology would stop arguing and take notice" ...

Simon Parkin:  "The video game Eve Online is one of Iceland’s biggest exports and has become the world’s largest living work of science fiction. While rival games have come and gone, it has survived – thanks to a unique experiment in democracy."

Chris Kohler:  "Nintendo's Amiibo, its entry into the "toys-to-life" gaming accessory business that also includes Activision's Skylanders and Disney's Infinity, seems to be off to a fairly good start. But it could have been much better."

Karen Snyder:  "Transmedia Story Stream, the Zynga of ebooks, is a revolutionary platform which blends Facebook video game mechanics with ebooks to allow authors to build, distribute and engage fans in multi-media story worlds" ...