[Guitar Hero developer] Harmonix… was so enamored with the “Sitar Hero” parody poster (with Apu playing a 60-button sitar controller) that they asked for 20 copies. [Link]
Please note that Sitar Hero is considerably more difficult than Guitar Hero. And the wah-wah doesn’t come from a pedal. It’s some kid paid in chai and sonf.
Here’s another […]

Check out this ode to Scrabulous, set to Fergie’s ‘Glamorous‘:

I’m hoping Hasbro resolves their copyright dispute with the Agarwallas sensibly. The Scrabulous developers are either copyright pirates or innovators in the mold of Napster and the movie industry, which landed on the West Coast to escape movie camera patents back east:
Edison and his partners […]

Here’s a screenshot from the Vortex game which comes with the new iPod Nano. Surely the level designer was familiar with the centerpiece of the Indian flag?
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In Blade Runner: The Final Cut, the 25th anniversary edition of that seminal film, little-known indie director Ridley Scott (A Good Year, Black Rain) uses yellow panic to convey a dystopian future. Impenetrable Chinese and kanji ideographs and Arabic vocals from the Brian Eno track ‘Quran’ signify a future where Earth is crumbling, most have […]

One of the newest online time sucks, playing Scrabble against your friends on Facebook, was built by twentysomethings in the Anglophilic city of Calcutta (thanks, Sapna):

Freudian for 15 points

Scrabulous… has attracted 300K players every day… “A Facebook team member said it is a favourite at their office… The Agarwalla brothers run Scrabulous from the offices […]