Gamasutra reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has made one billion dollars. The game launched two weeks ago. The company released a statement saying: Call of Duty as an entertainment franchise has made an indelible mark on popular culture and its broad and continued success is further valida
From cave paintings to modern pieces occupying galleries today, art has been widely deemed a human creation. But as robots continue to accomplish human behaviors, it comes as no surprise that designers in Japan have come up with the “Senseless Drawing Bot,” a system of two pendulums on an electric s
Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang has been one of my favorites for some time and I loved his retrospective at the Guggenheim a couple years back. He and I share a similar love of gunpowder/blowing things up, only I play videogames to itch that scratch and he does “explosion events” at modern
Lego mad scientist Hans Andersson has built a sudoku-playing machine and a machine that solves Rubik’s cubes out of automated blocks. Now he has outdone himself with a working clock. I have always been fascinated with time and clocks. Time Twister is my first clock invention… Time Twister consists o
LA-based designer Jayne Vidheecharoen has developed a really fascinating Kickstarter proposal to allow you recreate the Hand of God in a digital environment. She writes: More specifically, my Portals will consist of a pair of boxes. Each box has a screen on the front and a gateway on the side where
Net Z33, located at the House for Contemporary Art Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium, is a different kind of interactive art. While visitors are typically not allowed to touch paintings and sculptures, in this case, they are encouraged to climb and crawl through a “social sculpture,” becoming part of the artw
Flavorwire has compiled a list on quotes on the pleasures we take from reading. My dream is that one day all of these quotes will also apply to videogames. Like, try replacing book with game in the following quotes, like this one Kafka: “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or
Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary about the growing indie game scene, will be premiering at the 2012 Sundance film festival. The directors, Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky, announced that the film will be at the prestigious film festival beating out thousands of other submissions to be one of the
Thomas Fisher thinks that architectural criticism needs a shakeup. With major American newspapers cutting staff down — The New York Times didn’t replace their old architecture writer — there’s little room for the art form to grow. “What we need is criticism that treats renderings and buildings as d
Japanese indie-pop outfit Androp have had quite a digital presence recently with their latest music video for their song, “Bell,” which also happens to be a video game. While video game music videos are not particularly new, this one actually imparts a worthy message regarding the nature of digital
Joe Queenan didn’t really care much about games, and figured it was way too late to start. That is, until he saw a commercial for Modern Warfare 3 and found a replacement for the critically-panned blockbuster movies: critically-panned blockbuster games. The reason is: Movies are dreck. That 60-secon
This new trailer from Samsung showcases the company’s concept for a future handheld device that appears to be some sort of foldable tablet. Fully transparent and able to produce holographic images of, say, a restaurent menu, the device could be easily stuffed away into your pocket and pulled out a m
Last week the Tides Hotel in Miami was briefly turned into a moving canvas of 3D pixel art, thanks to some bleeding edge projection technology. The montage uses pixel art heavily with Tetris and Space Invades making cameos with a new song by popular chiptune band Anamanaguchi. – Filipe Salgado
Mike Birkhead, who’s worked on God of War: Ghost of Sparta and the recent Mortal Kombat, says that nobody gives a damn about your game idea. “A designer that locks himself away has made two mistakes. One, as I’ve already stated, is that he misses out on great ideas from all around him. Second, and
Finally coming into its own as a solid gaming system, Nintendo 3DS has become an item to desire, particularly with a recent update that puts users in the director’s chair. An array of new features transforms the 3DS into a video camera for making 3D movies as well as stop motion films. Although port
Okay, this is actually not an alphabet book based on the drug-dealing mini-game in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, but bragging rights for Brazil’s finest. A law enforcement agency has taken up the odd habit of turning seized contraband into typography. [img: fabiolopez] -Jason Johnson
Left Behind Games has recently released a slew of head-scratching religious-themed games. These include Scripture Chess, a game that displays Biblical quotes as you play chess; Praise Champion 2, (think Sing Star minus the secularity); and Left Behind 4: World at War, the latest in their series of s
Determining the proper academic calendar to suit the needs of teachers, students, and parents alike is a delicate process for an often struggling public education infrastructure. But how often is public policy determined by public play? In a thoughtful and provocative piece published Monday on Slate
The Washingtonian has a fascinating profile of Gene Weingarten, the only person to have won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism twice. He’s the best journalist in America, and he also might be the craziest-he once lied to his son about having a dead sister to explain why he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.
Unlike the survival kit in a can, this zombie first aid kit is kind of dangerous. It comes inside a beer bottle that should be smashed open in case one comes in contact with a crowd of flesh-munching zombies. On the plus side, as pointed out in the bullet-points, broken beer bottles can be used to s
And no, not Air, the French duo who made Moon Safari-although that would be kind of cool. Instead, Swedish architect Bjarke Ingels is inverting the notions of a conventional university building design to allow for the building’s denizens (mostly medical students and scientific researchers) to have g
Defusing a bomb is a classic film trope used to create tension. DWFE, an artist collective, have decided to turn that idea into a full-blown (ha ha) installation. The participant is presented with two wires and precious little time. The goal is to close the gap between the image being presented and
We’ve all heard this one. Maybe from a friend of a friend who swears on his mother’s grave that it happened to his cousin’s buddy. The one about the arcade game that caused strange symptoms in its players, like epilepsy and driving folks to suicide. That men in black would come to collect the data a
