When did the image of the chessplayer become synonymous with Machiavellian scheming and cunning? We don’t bestow the same reverence to talented Risk players, or to Bridge champions, even those are (arguably) more intricate games. Scientists have even shown that the only thing that being good at ches
The ongoing exhibition, “Contemporary Galleries: 1980-Now,” at the Museum of Modern Art features several artworks that relate to videogames because they invite participation. Rirkrit Tiravanija‘s Untitled 1992/1995 (free/still), in particular allows visitors to eat Thai food in a fabricated kitchen
The common refrain is that Hideo Kojima needs an editor. The famed designer, creator of the action-adventure stealth series Metal Gear, is renowned for his keen instincts as a game developer, and his tone-deaf approach to story. His games play like Michael Bay directing a Charlie Kaufman script: one
It’s Thursday! You know what that means?! That it’s time for today’s cheat sheet! – A Finnish site is claiming that Halo 4 will be revealed later this month at Microsoft’s Spring Showcase. – Fans are planning on using everyone’s favorite game, Half-Life 2, in an effort to get some answers out of Val
In a recent story about war veteran and burn victim Sam Brown’s long and painful road to recovery, Jay Kirk sheds light on a new aspect of videogames designed for military use. Unsure how to proceed with a treatment that was causing Brown constant agony, his doctors finally summoned Hunter Hoffman,
According to an interview in V Magazine, the alt-pop singer/songwriter Ariel Pink announced that he was working on a werewolf movie that he plans to produce, score, and act in, tentatively titled Bad Vibes. “Set in the 1960s, the film is centered on “a band called the Sunrise Majesty, which is a mi
The newest Final Fantasy game has a few different endings depending on how you play the game out. Thankfully, none of the endings are as harrowing as the speech Richard Nixon had an assistant prepare for him to give the nation had the moon landing failed: Fate has ordained that the men who went to t
A new book compiling the letters of William S. Burroughs, the drug-addled satirist who wrote Naked Lunch, and my personal favorite author when I was a kid, will be released in February. A sample of the letters, ran by The Paris Review, shows a personable side of Burroughs rarely seen in his fiction.