Jeff Ryan, in an interview with Slate, talks about how Super Mario Brothers established videogames’ first folk hero, and how those games influenced the obsessive nature of pop culture fandom going forward. According to Ryan, “[i]nstead of passively ingesting their entertainment, they study it in min
From four students at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands, here’s Mac ‘n’ Cheese. No, not the delicious kind—the kind that’s an awesome animated short. Inspired by Team Fortress 2 and animated short Meet Buck (and perhaps channeling a little bit of Crank), the project took approximately fi
Time to get zapped with some mainstream videogame news! -Gearbox has announced Borderlands 2, shared game’s first details and clues. -Activision has previewed its Marvel game lineup at Comic-Con 2011. -Blizzard sales on the rise, but does not plan to release a 2011 title. -Microsoft is preparing f
Have you been feeling kind of weird today? Well, one reason may be that you’re glitching out. According to Nick Bostrom, philosopher at Oxford University, the chances that you’re a virtual creation living in a computer simulation are surprisingly high: This possibility rests on three developments:
