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Sundance Watch: ‘Repurposed’ games featured in New Frontiers
Continuing our look into the Sundance Film Festival, we are excited to see what comes from Sundance’s New Frontiers, a part of the festival dedicated to new ways to present narratives. Even the ubiquitous James Franco has had his hand in it. One of such projects comes from Italian-based Molleindust
The U.S. Army’s assault rifle game controller.
In a move to get youth off the couch and into a war zone, the U.S. Army has officially licensed a fairly realistic toy assault rifle. The camouflage plastic gun can be used in tandem with a Playstation Move motion controller to play first-person shooters such as Resistance 3 and Battlefield 3. Next
Can videogames and cinema coexist?
Recently, the Village Voice caused a stir when they fired the long-time, reputable film critic, J. Hoberman. The NY Times today has a piece out in which their own big name critics, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott (you’ve seen their write-ups on Rotten Tomatoes, surely), speak with the now decommission
Thanks to new motion sensor technology, gamers may finally get interactive headgear.
In our Public Play issue, Jon Irwin wondered if the short-lived career of Nintendo’s Virtual Boy was “just a hint of what is now being fully realized.” 3D technology is certainly seeing a resurgence today, but a new device showcased at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show seems closer to the headge
This woodcut board game could be the most beautiful "Catan" you ever play.
Shandy from San Francisco has made a woodcut board of “Settlers of Catan”. His project has already been funded via Kickstarter, but you can appreciate his handiwork here and here. It’s a shame you can’t still pledge; for $1,000 dollars he promised to hand deliver the set in a “super embarrassing Cat
Study demonstrates people have good social intentions without rules.
So, you fight with your roommates over dirty dishes but your guild in WoW could not be getting along better. Ever wonder how it does so well? Recently, researches at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria have looked at the behaviors of more than 400,000 people who play the online MMO Pardus t
Community rallies to make SOPA protest games.
As the specter of the Stop Online Piracy Act looms on the horizon, threatening our internet sovereignty, many sites are trying to get the message out. Wikipedia had their black out and many tech sites shut down for the day. Ludum Dare, a community devoted to creating games in a limited time frame, l
From the gridiron to the gamepad: How NFL realism makes it into Madden.
A firsthand account of John Madden’s “man cave.” A rumination on the intricacies of sports A.I.. The question, “Are Sports Games Art?” It might be easier to tell you what isn’t in writer Tom Bissell’s investigation into EA’s Madden franchise. But the part that struck a chord with me is that John Mad
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