"Lego City Undercover" is on track to be the biggest game that Tt Games has ever released as part of the Lego franchise. "Undercover" will be the first game to break the pattern of licensed games which already extend to almost every corner of nerdom - from "Star Wars" to Batman to "Lord of the Rings." This time around, Tt Games are creating two entirely new games, one for the Wii U and one for the 3Ds, that are inspired by the Lego City brand. The games will both center on police officer Chase McCain as he does whatever it takes to clean up the streets of Lego City. To celebrate the upcoming launch of both games, we had a chance to sit down with Tt Games' Executive Producer, Loz Doyle, who took us through some of the exciting changes that fans can expect when they step into the first...
- 3/7/2013
- by Jason Cipriano
- MTV Multiplayer
In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect: The Chinese middle class is eating more and more meat, and Beijing wants to keep prices low. That means finding a way to feed all those pigs with grain imported from land cut from the Brazilian rainforest, leading to conflict within the BRICs.
1. The Strategic Pork Reserve
Since Deng Xiaoping, China’s leaders have been obsessed with “food security” the same way America’s are haunted by not having enough oil. And as Chinese diets become more meat centric, fears of the dangers in the fluctuation of pork prices led China to establish a top-secret “strategic pork reserve” in 2007, the only one of its kind. But maintaining all those pigs has led to a massive dependence on corn and soybean imports for animal feed, which in turn is leading China’s agribusinesses to fan out abroad in a quest to control the means of production.
1. The Strategic Pork Reserve
Since Deng Xiaoping, China’s leaders have been obsessed with “food security” the same way America’s are haunted by not having enough oil. And as Chinese diets become more meat centric, fears of the dangers in the fluctuation of pork prices led China to establish a top-secret “strategic pork reserve” in 2007, the only one of its kind. But maintaining all those pigs has led to a massive dependence on corn and soybean imports for animal feed, which in turn is leading China’s agribusinesses to fan out abroad in a quest to control the means of production.
- 7/14/2011
- by Greg Lindsay
- Fast Company
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