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September 30th, go for Baroque with KS and "Johann Sebastian Joust"

September 18, 2011, 11:10 am

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

NHL 2012 includes playable female characters

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

Is this the Mercury Prize of games? Introducing GameCity Prize

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

PAUSE: This "Purple Rain" NES title really should have been more popular

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]

Why don’t war games feature civilians?

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

Fictional games we’d like to see IRL

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