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Film director Roland Emmerich is creating a shared universe of TV, gaming and Web3 tomfoolery
Film director Roland Emmerich is making a massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game powered by everyone’s favorite punching bags, NFTs. The director of ‘Independence Day’, ‘Stargate’ and ‘Moonfall’ just announced ‘Space Nation’, a forthcoming RPG that is going to be part of a larger shared universe encompassing animated shorts, a live-action TV show and plenty of Web3 nonsense.
Roland Emmerich's 'Moonfall' asks what would happen if the Moon fell on Earth
In the first trailer for Roland Emmerich's latest film, the aptly named Moonfall, Earth’s natural satellite has decided to do humanity a solid favor and put it out of its misery by crashing into our home.
MIDI gear of the 80s: 16 channels of want
It was 1987 in a dark Orange County new wave recording studio when I first saw virtual notes scroll past my eyes on a nine-inch Mac Plus screen. The Yamaha DX-7 and Sequential Prophet 5 were lit up like a space ship, and I knew one thing for sure: I wanted to go to there. I wanted to do what Front 242, Blancmange and New Order were doing. I was hooked: high on aftertouch. So began my wallet-killing, girl-repelling high school obsession and summer-break career. I worked in the keyboard department at Guitar Center, bought racks of gear at cost, and set my sights on becoming the next great electronic music sensation of the late 80s. Or... not. So what was left behind? Several lame Skinny Puppy ripoffs, a few decent dance tracks that I still have hidden away on cassettes in my office closet (of course, I don't have a cassette deck on which to hear said tracks), and plenty of fond memories about some beautiful old electronic music gear. I present here for your perusal some of my more memorable axes.
