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Yellow Mountain – Company Trip
Last weekend, as part of a Spicy Horse team building adventure, we took the company to China’s equivalent of the Grand Canyon – Yellow Mountain. Also known as Mt. Huangshan, Yellow Mountain refers to an area of scenic mountains, rivers, waterfalls, and gorges in Anhui province. Our adventure began at the Spicy offices in Shanghai.…
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New Office
Two weekends ago Spicy Horse Games picked up and moved to a new home. We had been sharing office space with game art outsourcing company Vykarian. But both companies have been growing too quickly, so we moved. We got lucky and were told of a cool space which had been occupied by a film/tv production…
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Xitang Weekend
One personal embarrassment about the time I’ve spent in China is how little of China I’ve actually seen. Life in Shanghai is hectic and interesting enough – but what’s the point of being in a foreign country if you’re not going to see something of it? Granted, without a decent grasp on the language, solo…
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AI.implant – 0$ Licensing Fee
Cool news from the guys over at Engenuity today: Engenuity will no longer charge a licensing fee for AI.implant and will now offer perpetual source code agreements in exchange for marketing exposure relating to future titles developed with AI.implant. Qualified Xbox 360 console developers and PLAYSTATION3 game title developers will now have full and complete…
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Vins Gagliardi – Chateau Du Charnay
Our buddy Pete Gagliardi over at Vins Gagliardi recently announced a new label in his selection of wines. This continues the series which features dark fairy tale label art by Ken Wong. “Red Riding Hood” is the latest inspiration: The previous wine in the series was “Rapunzel”, which you can find more info about here.…
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USATODAY.com – Into the Pixel
Spicy Horse conceptual artist Lin Ran did a series of images during early “Grimm” pre-production. I posted some of these images to my flickr account a while back, like this one, “The Boy Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was”: These images were entered into the annual “Into the Pixel” competition – “An exhibition…
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GameTap brings 500+ PC games to Intel Macs
This is cool: GameTap today announced that it is expanding its offerings to the Mac community by providing Intel-based Mac users access to its Lite Player, which offers more than 500 new and classic game titles as well as more than 600 streaming videos of original programming from GapeTap TV. “Mac users will now be…
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Vykarian + Spicy Horse Team
Whew! That’s a lot of people. The Shanghai Vykarian/Spicy team has grown to over 120 people since the start of the year. If you’re looking for a great photographer in Shanghai, be sure to check out Primo’s website or email him at primoyuan [at] 163.com – He took some great pictures of our office and…