Do you listen to Rihanna or Bjork? Watch Transformers or Tree of Life? Play Braid or Mortal Kombat? More and more often, I’m find myself saying, “both.” (Except in the case of Transformers or Tree of Life?, in which I say neither!) If the mass audience was good enough for Shakespeare, it’s good enou
Unlike Angry Birds, Angry Brides gives players a chance to strike at chauvinist pigs. The game protests the (long outlawed) dowry in Indian culture. “The Angry Brides game is our way of throwing a spotlight on the nuisance of dowry,” said Ram Bhamidi, senior vice president and head of online marketi
To get a film into Sundance Film Festival is to represent some part of our Zeitgeist, manifested as a story, a form, an issue, or really anything that provides some insight on what people will be talking about this coming year, in film and beyond. This year’s Sundance will have people talking about
Welcome back to the Rap Map, where we speak with rappers about videogames. Today we’re talking with Mr. Don Trip, whose Stepbrothers, a collaborative mixtape with the rapper Starlito, won heavy acclaim throughout the rap world. What games do you play? Mostly sports. NBA2k, Madden, NCAA. Other than t
There is a difference between Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report and “Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report.” Surely you are aware of this-one is a fictional character, and the other is a real person who would probably find his fictional self a total idiot. Recently, though, the difference betwee
James Cameron’s Avatar proved the awesome potential of 3D technology for entertainment today. But in a recent interview for The New York Times, director Baz Luhrmann said he hopes new films will embrace the technology’s potential for experiences beyond sheer spectacle: He spoke of using 3-D not to
Dutch developers GameOven has been touting their IGF-nominated iPad puzzler Fingle as the “Barry White of videogames.” I had a chance to try it out this weekend with my girlfriend on the train and as a word of warning, do not play this game with anyone other than a significant other (real or potent
Are politics still the “strong and slow boring of hard boards” Max Weber once called them? Some new advances in the realm of political games throws Weber’s comment into sharp relief: “What’s happened over the last few years is that politicians, political parties, non-profits, and lobbyists have real