This isn’t the first time augmented reality has been used for a magazine cover, but it’s a nifty demonstration nonetheless. Official Nintendo Magazine, the official Nintendo magazine, chose 100 Miis from their readers and popped them on their new cover via QR codes. If you are desirous of having 100
So rad. When the idea for the first Bregenz Festival was tossed around almost seventy years ago, the Austrian city didn’t have the funds to build an opera house, so they constructed a makeshift stage against the city’s most beautiful natural setting – Lake Constance. The idea seemed wildly eccentric
Film mag Little White Lies has a spot close to our heart, being a spiritual cousin to what we’re trying to do with videogames. The produce a different cover based on a recent film and their Tron poster just hit the shop.
There is love….and then there is obsession. If you’re the kind of person who loves Apple products, we can understand that. But there are those who wish to adorn every surface of their home, perhaps even their bodies, with the silky, smooth sheen of Apple product design. If you are one of these peopl
There’s chiptune music, of course, that incorporates videogame music into modern contexts, but for one musician, music is best made by not even turning on the machine. [thx, casey!]
Japanese kids take refuge from the quake through their Nintendo DS. [via tinycartridge] “Japanese refugee children play with their personal video games inside a gymnasium used as a shelter in Fukushima, northeastern Japan”, captured by David Guttenfelder.
A dramatic re-envisioning of Angry Birds as Hitchcock-ian thriler…. “Alfred Hitchcock’s Angry Birds“, by Zero-Lives.”
Behold! Sheet music for the original coin sound from Super Mario Bros.
The iPad does many, many things, but according to a new survey, it’s used mostly as a game device. Perhaps this is why Nintendo sees Apple as an “enemy of the future.” Looks to us like the enemy’s already at the gates: According to the survey, 84% of tablet owners play games, ahead of even searching
Despite golf’s image of being decidedly low-tech (on the electronics side), the Masters has been making a big move towards bringing the sport into the digital age. There are 8 different live feeds to the website including one in 3D as well as an upcoming iPad app. The Masters’ chairman describes the
Videogame apparel company Level Up Studios has just introduced this “unreal” new project to complement their other t-shirt designs. One astute YouTube commenter predicted that a lot of genitalia will be making their way onto these things. Progress comes at a cost, sadly. via
“Culture arises and unfolds in and as play.” — Johan Huizinga
Pause: The Pixel Art of Andy Helms [via oktotally]
For those who’ve suffered from stroke, there may be new hope. A report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association suggests that games can help patients regain arm strength. “Recent research indicates the brain has a remarkable potential for remodelling because after injury it shows neurop
Remember that Dead Island trailer for a couple weeks back? The one with the lilting strings? We’re not huge fans of hype around trailers, but if you haven’t watched this one, you should. Anyway, it was the handiwork of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds, a eminently talented and tow-headed young man
We know there are many bad jobs in the world. (Major website videogame intern may be one of them, in fact.) Lapham’s Quarterly has gone ahead and done the legwork for the worst jobs ever created. These include such glorious distinctions Viking egg-collector, the poor people in Tokyo who push crowde
An exemplar of pure dedication to military history or a love sacrifice to the God of War, Conflict History is exactly as it seems. (It’s Friday. We’re straightforward.) For Civilization nuts, this a perfect way to compare your plans of world domination to those of glorious yesterday. Scroll through
You love Streets of Rage, but there is a limit to your love. (Womp womp.) For a team of modders called Bomber Games, there’s no better way to build on a classic than to create an 103-level high rise of fan dedication and achievement known as Streets of Rage Remake. What was lost in titular creativit
Aaaand we’re one step closer to nano suits that will allow all who have been playing Crysis to show off the rippling sinews that we’ve been hiding for so long. “Nanotechnology allows a novel route to materials and structures that can be used to develop human-friendly devices with realistic functions
Residents’ Councils of Samaria and Binyamin, an advocacy group for religious settlers, recently commissioned a series of religious- and nationalistic-themed videogames. Israeli youth are the target audience and the group told Fast Company that they want “to reach the heart of the younger generation
Want to get people interested in signing up for being Border Patrol guards? Well, this real-time strategy game developed for a nifty $10 million might be the answer. Putting the “serious” back in “serious games”: So for Sandia, home of the world’s largest X-ray machine, a project like the “Borders H
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It’s rare that the creative process finds such a strange — and tragic — source, but for Mark Hogancamp, a near-death experience, has birthed an entire world of characters and set designs reflecting the brutality of war and other themes Mark Hogancamp died 11 years ago tomorrow, when five men kicked
Videogames enjoy the benefit of hindsight as other mediums are both aware of their limitations and can teach game designers much about their respective crafts. Over at the Guardian, film maker Kevin MacDonald reflects on the reality of conflict that he’s captured through his films. In particular, h
