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To combat the view of being stuffy, private institutions, museums are using some of the language of game designers to bring visitors more inside of their world. We would call that “immersion,” the idea that you can be lost inside of place that is not your own. Museums are pursuing engagement and tr
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If you haven’t seen these interactive white boards, they’re something out of Ghostwriter. First of all, the boards are called Prometheans which is amazing. Second, they emulate what can be done on the computer screen with a pen so it’s a bit like a Cintiq pad. We’re excited for things like this as
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We like the idea that when James Cameron heard the term “cinéma vérité” he thought that it meant literally making real life. In any case, we game fans like watching film directors quixotic quest for verisimilitude as it matches game designers dogged obsession with realism. In any case, Cameron is ap
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We commissioned Richard Hogg, designer extraordinaire, to make this shirt for us. He is an artist and illustrator who also makes games in collaboration with Honeyslug such as Poto & Cabenga and the forthcoming Hohokum. There are apparently 20 videogame references in this shirt. Check it out!
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We have a fondness for bands with videogame names that don’t make chiptunes, so Brooklyn-based proto-punk band Mr. Dream is certainly in our wheelhouse. It certainly helps that the band’s drummer Nick Sylvester wrote an Angry Birds review for us a few weeks back (and for the sake of disclosure was a
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Do videogames count as design objects? NYU sociologist Harvey Molotch certainly thinks so as we are prone to think of videogames as another form of entertainment. But much like videogames, design faces the same problems of anonymity, disrespect, and cultural bias. However, design is now ascendant a
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Videogames graced the cover of ARTnews this month with a lovely roundup of all the games-related projects that have been appearing over the last few years. Carolina A. Miranda gave this succinct description of Feng Mengbo’s Long March: Restart (pictured) which closes at PS1 this week. Clever culture
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From Esquire UK for their 20th Anniversary Take Cover project: When you look at their impressive body of work, Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne and LA Noire (coming in May), we suspected the results weren’t going to be straightforward. This, however, was beyond what we hoped for. As
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So there’s the website called Metacritic. They aggregate reviews and rate things. Lots of things. Books. Movies. And most importantly, videogames. But unlike other industries, people who make games get their bonuses tied to the Metacritic scores. Understandably, game designers were none to pleased
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So despite the name, and we hate to be sticklers, this is more of a Streets of Rage thing, but, you know, no big deal. French electropop trio We Are Enfant Terrible generated this homage to the brawler genre, only with more Francophilia, keyboard solos, and style. Also, yeah yeah, this came out last
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So Color is an iOs app. According to its description: Color (Colour) is fun way to create a public photo album with your friends using multiple iPhones. Everything is instantly shared among everyone taking photos and videos using the Color app. Pretty straightforward, right? Social networking with
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Over at Instructables, they’ve put together a nice little primer for a 900 LED table you can build to play Pong on. Just in case you weren’t busy this week.