Can LittleBigPlanet Save Sony's PS3?

David Kushner — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:00:07 -0400

On July 17, 2007, Phil Harrison, Sony's then head of Worldwide Studios, took the stage for what would be his last press conference on behalf of the company at the annual E3 videogame convention in Los Angeles. Tall and Kojak bald, in a fitted pin-striped suit, the cerebral Brit looked alien cool -- but he had plenty of reason to sweat.

LittleBigPlanet's Little Big Scandal

David Kushner — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:39:22 -0400

Media Molecule, the start-up designers of the do-it-yourself Sony PlayStation 3 videogame LittleBigPlanet, have had an unexpectedly big problem on their hands.

Peter Gabriel’s YouTube for Human Rights: The Hub

David Kushner — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:45:52 -0400

It was an ordinary day of skateboarding dog videos on YouTube last November when a harrowing clip appeared. The grainy shots from Egypt showed police officers beating and sodomizing a man with a nightstick. The clip had been distributed by Egyptian bloggers Wael Abbas and Hossam el-Hamalawy as a call to action against police brutality.

Rebel Alliance

David Kushner — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:46:18 -0400

On a starry night in Los Angeles, there's no shortage of conversation inside a dimly lit Sunset Boulevard restaurant called Eat. On Sunset. Just a few hours ago, news leaked of a deal to end the Writers Guild of America strike that shut down much of the film and TV business for three months. Everyone in Hollywood, it seems, is begging to know what the future holds. And in a windowless private room behind the bar, a group of scruffy dudes drinking vodka and munching on calamari have some answers.