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Brenden Powell Smith has been building Biblical scenes out of Legos and posting them on his website for the past 10 years, and now his illustrations are being collected in a new book titled The Brick Bible. When I first started it I really didn’t think, okay, I’m embarking on this… project to illust
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Our own Jamin Warren spoke on National Public Radio recently about how Modern Warfare 3 creates a more inclusive game. WARREN: Exactly. Exactly. You know, I think what’s interesting here is that this is emblematic of a larger industry shift, which is noticing that these excessive games like “Farmvil
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Guessing there’s more than one of you who sacrificed your social life this weekend to the benevolent deity that is Skyrim. I had a friend who stayed up until 6am on Friday playing it. No judgments. Anyways, the Skyrim fitness program got kicked off by an editor at PCWorld, who decided he would “earn
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In a uniformly amazing essay entitled, “The trouble with video games isn’t the violence. It’s that most of the characters are dicks,” British games writer Charlie Booker examines exactly what makes people feel so uncomfortable about violence in games: So we both stop in our tracks, and moustache man
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In his essay “Football”, Chuck Klosterman wrote about the fact that, despite seeming like a conservative flag bearer, football is actually one of the most progressive sports. One example he gives is the NFL’s willingness to try new technology. The latest technlogy impacting the game? Tablets. “Just
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Besides that awesome lightning bolt effect, we mean. – Drew Millard
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Cattle die, kinsmen die; the self must also die. I know one thing which never dies: the reputation of each dead man. -Old Norse proverb [via]
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It’s a question we’re faced with any time we engage with any bit of art, from a game to an album to a painting-how long are you supposed to spend time with before you’ve digested the thing? This question was raised by the BBC regarding the new Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at the National Gallery in Lon
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It’s meant for MMORPG play, but it looks you could fight terrorism with the thing. Buy it for the World of Warcraft head in your life this Christmas: It has a total of 78 definable commands via 13 programmable buttons, a 2-position shift button, a cycling MMO Mode Switch that cycles through three se
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This guy can flow. He sort of raps like Wiley, in that he is British and this is insane. Too bad he didn’t mention eating anything. [via]
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This time Ico, pereninnal “games as art” go-to example, has managed to snare the New Yorker’s Chris Suellentrop. While the piece is mostly a review of the rerelease of Ico and designer Fumito Ueda’s most recent game Shadow of the Colossus, Suellentrop does touch on the enduring appeal of these games
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According to Tom Savini, the O.G. of gore makeup, America’s favorite zombie enthusiast was a proto-gamer: “I had the first Space Invaders game that came out, and that was a miracle back then. When I was making Knightriders with George Romero, we would sit in the hotel room and play Space Invaders an