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
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
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
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
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
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.
Berlin-based photographer Stephen Tillmans is a man after our own heart. He recently created a series of photographs of that split second when a television is shut down and the image fades into the ether. The results are both precise and surreal, drawing attention to flicker of energy few of us have
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future