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Gamasutra reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has made one billion dollars. The game launched two weeks ago. The company released a statement saying: Call of Duty as an entertainment franchise has made an indelible mark on popular culture and its broad and continued success is further valida
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From cave paintings to modern pieces occupying galleries today, art has been widely deemed a human creation. But as robots continue to accomplish human behaviors, it comes as no surprise that designers in Japan have come up with the “Senseless Drawing Bot,” a system of two pendulums on an electric s
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Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang has been one of my favorites for some time and I loved his retrospective at the Guggenheim a couple years back. He and I share a similar love of gunpowder/blowing things up, only I play videogames to itch that scratch and he does “explosion events” at modern
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Lego mad scientist Hans Andersson has built a sudoku-playing machine and a machine that solves Rubik’s cubes out of automated blocks. Now he has outdone himself with a working clock. I have always been fascinated with time and clocks. Time Twister is my first clock invention… Time Twister consists o
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LA-based designer Jayne Vidheecharoen has developed a really fascinating Kickstarter proposal to allow you recreate the Hand of God in a digital environment. She writes: More specifically, my Portals will consist of a pair of boxes. Each box has a screen on the front and a gateway on the side where
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Net Z33, located at the House for Contemporary Art Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium, is a different kind of interactive art. While visitors are typically not allowed to touch paintings and sculptures, in this case, they are encouraged to climb and crawl through a “social sculpture,” becoming part of the artw
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Flavorwire has compiled a list on quotes on the pleasures we take from reading. My dream is that one day all of these quotes will also apply to videogames. Like, try replacing book with game in the following quotes, like this one Kafka: “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or
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Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary about the growing indie game scene, will be premiering at the 2012 Sundance film festival. The directors, Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky, announced that the film will be at the prestigious film festival beating out thousands of other submissions to be one of the
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Thomas Fisher thinks that architectural criticism needs a shakeup. With major American newspapers cutting staff down — The New York Times didn’t replace their old architecture writer — there’s little room for the art form to grow. “What we need is criticism that treats renderings and buildings as d
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Japanese indie-pop outfit Androp have had quite a digital presence recently with their latest music video for their song, “Bell,” which also happens to be a video game. While video game music videos are not particularly new, this one actually imparts a worthy message regarding the nature of digital