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FLASHBACK OF THE DAY: Fight Night with Kid Dynamite
Michael Coriano’s Punch-Out themed prints bring us back to the days when Mike Tyson’s borderline-psychotic persona made for a great videogame boss, instead of just being terrifying. [img: CMYK Projects]
As you play Fez, think of how every ounce of happiness was paid for with anguish.
In an interview with Simon Parkin for Gamasutra, Phil Fish, the creator of the long awaited world-bending indie platformer Fez, talks about his trails and tribulations putting together the game. After the second time we lost our funding and there was the whole divorce with my business partner, and a
These Minecraft-like playhouses let children design their own home.
Would your rather be playing Minecraft that building your kids a playhouse? Now you can do both. These play spaces by Play Modern not only look like a dwelling in the blocky building game, they can also be broken down and rearranged into different constructions, giving play houses an aura of archite
Modern Warfare 3 made one billion dollars in two weeks.
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
PAUSE: Dev Harlan’s interactive light sculpture brings dancing lunar rhythms.
[via Laughing Squid]
Can robots be viable sources of art?
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
BOOM: What do we share with Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang? Explosions, of course! (Especially rainbow ones.)
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
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