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April 27, 2011, 11:40 am
PAUSE: Cristian Zuzunaga’s pixelated furniture. Check out more of his work here.
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Today on KS: Art game dev Jason Rohrer spills the beans
The latest in our series of pre-game interviews features Jason Rohrer, creator of art games Passage, Gravitation, Sleep Is Death, and Inside a Star-Filled Sky, among many others. He talks about playing with knives, lying to the NSA, and wanting to be a mailman on Mars. I had a lot of nightmares as a
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The death of the typewriter
The last typewriter factory, in Mumbai, India, closed this week. So ends the loveliest and loudest sound of button pushing. “We are not getting many orders now,” Milind Dukle, Godrej and Boyce’s general manager, told the paper. “From the early 2000s onwards, computers started dominating. All the man
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Sega Genesis cartridges as weapons…
A detained Al Qaeda official told the U.S. Department of Defense about “remote-controlled firing devices (RCFDS)” hidden inside Sega Genesis cartridges. “Detainee discussed remote-controlled firing devices (RCFDS) which were found during raids in Karachi in September 2002. These RCFDS were built ins
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Bring back blue skies in games!
The folks at UK Resistance are tired of everything being so serious all the time so they’ve started a campaign to bring back the blue sky in games, just like old times: – Change everything that’s grey into blue. – From now on, everyone wears red shoes. – Make everything happen at midday or sunset. –
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A boy, a dilemma, and an Atari Jacket
Clip from animator Gabe Swarr’s “Life in the Analog Age” series.
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What happens when a little girl "reinvents" chess?
Over at Geek Dad UK, a father mixes things up with his daughter and let’s her make up some of the rules. The results are exciting/inspiring: Although inspired by her introduction to chess the day before, her game was fresh and creative — it was different in ways that an adult steeped in chess would
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April 26, 2011, 1:30 pm
PAUSE: Jason Levesque’s Anatomical Nesting Dolls For those who love Stacking a little bit too much… [via]
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Today on KS: What are the moral categories of game players?
The first from our new ethics columnist Dustin Locke, an assistant professor of philosophy in at Claremont McKenna College, who looks at the different styles of ethical play in games: In addition to Restraints and Rules, however, there is a third R of gameplay control: Wrongs. These are the ethical
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Press Play: Kill Screen on NPR on "Madden Curse"
Host Michele Norris speaks to Jamin Warren, co-founder of the video game magazine Kill Screen, about the cover of the wildly popular Madden Football game series. It’s a big honor for a football player to make the cover of the game. But if you believe fans – and even some players – once you’re on tha
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April 26, 2011, 10:45 am
PAUSE: Susan Thai’s “Yves Klein” Based on the French artis Yves Klein’s Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void) More of Thai’s work here.
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Andy Warhol: The Game
First, the Great Gatsby. Now the pop artist. [via]