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Finally, concrete evidence of gaming’s ability to help change the world: for the first time, “gamers” have received credit for a scientific breakthrough. Using a program called Foldit, they produced an accurate model of the monomeric protease enzyme, a result which could have implications for treatm
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Guardian has a nice interview with Jason Nelson, an artist/poet who, along with Cory Archangel, is on the forefront of digital art. The interview touches on Nelson’s exodus to Australia (good), the death of Flash (bad), his games (purposefully Byzantine) and where he was giving the interview (a wait
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ArtInfo reports that artist Pippin Barr created an 8-bit video game to simulate the experience of sitting with Marina Abramovic at MoMA, which was available in real-life in Fall 2010. The game includes waiting in line and paying museum admission. Players are confronted with a long queue of 8-bit
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Well, sort of. The newest installation in EA Sports’ long-running NHL series now offers the ability to, when creating a playable character, to give your avatar a female face. The change— a first for EA Sports— comes at the behest of Lexi Peters, a 14 year-old from Buffalo, New York who wrote the spo
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GameCity, a prominent UK videogame festival, recently unveiled the GameCity Prize, a new type of videogame award meant to honor a game that most significantly pushes the artistic limits for what they call “one of the most significant cultural forms of our age.” The winner will be judged by a panel c
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From the Workman Says Things tumblelog: There are 3 people on Earth who own one of these. I am one of them. We are painfully jealous. –Lana Polansky [via]
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Over at Slate, Michael Thomson has some thoughts about why keeping civilians out of the line of fire in videogames is standard practice, and why it’s a bad idea. Responding to Battlefield 3’s lack of civilian bystanders because, as executive producer Patrick Bach explains, he doesn’t “want to see vi
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Flavorwire has a really cool list of fictional games they’d like to see played out in the real world. It includes Eschaton from Infinite Jest (it’s like Risk, but you’ve got to be really good at lobbing tennis balls), Double Cranko from M*A*S*H (think Go Fish but with booze), that terrifying war sim
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Grantland’s Tom Bissell writes on gamification, and the numbers game played all over Techland’s zombie survival game Dead Island. In a game about running from things that want to eat you, what is more important: the emotional experience of running from things that want to eat you, or knowing that th
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What you’re looking at is a real baseball game. This is science fact, and it’s brought to you by the new iPhone app, MLB’s AtBat. What in the bejeezus is going on, you ask? This real, live, honest-to-goodness baseball game is being rendered, via all kinds of space-age techno-magical what-have-you, w