Hot List: Innovation, Games, and Anger Translators

The Hot List– Turnstyle’s weekly look at what’s keeping us sane and smiling.

Galaxy on Fire 2. (iPhone/iPad)

It’s a very polished and well done game (especially for less than $10). Not only is it polished, but it’s addictive. And the fact that I can play it on both my iPhone and my iPad and keep both games synchronized is awesome. It reminds me of an old school game called Privateer (an offshoot of the Wing Commander series).-Kurt Collins

Key & Peele, Season Two (TV Series)

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele return for a second season on Comedy Central, but they’ve already started leaking sketches onto the web. We’re also in for a topic spot online each week from Luther, President Obama’s anger translator. And you thought election season was annoying. -Noah Nelson

Reverse Innovation (Non-fiction)

I’m reading Vijay Govindarajan’s Reverse Innovation, a book that explores how we can re-order our thinking about how and where influential innovation happens; specifically, how transnational markets can better capitalize on emerging science and tech from the developing world. Full of “juicy” anecdotes like the South Indian origins of Gatorade (excuse the pun). -Nishat Kurwa

Press Reset (Web series)

I was skeptical at first about this video documentary series about the making of the video game news site Polygon. Primarily because it seemed to put the cart before the horse: Polygon hasn’t launched yet. They have, however, been holding down the gaming news for The Verge and this web series is a fascinating look at what goes into modern web news production. -NN