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Urinal games may be coming to a pub near you
A British company has decided to delight bar patrons and headline writers with their latest invention, urinal gaming stations. The company, Captive Media, is hoping to install games in urinals that allow for urine controlled games. Men relieving their bladders can aim at different sensors in the ur
So long, GameSetWatch
GameSetWatch, the influential “alternative” videogames blog, is no more. At its brightest, GameSetWatch was smart and fun. Founded by Simon Carless in 2005, GameSetWatch began as a place for him to run content that was more lighthearted than found on his main project Gamasutra. It was one of the fir
Activision CEO asks why war movies get a pass, but not war games
Perhaps sick of people calling Modern Warfare exploitive trash, Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg decided to lash out. There’s a sense that games are more exploitative in a way that The Hurt Locker – which also was designed as form of entertainment – isn’t. I think they are an art form, and I think that
Is the act of playing a game political?
Angus Finlayson of the Quietus has an excellent analysis of the role of sexism in the UK dance music scene, culminating in the following quote: Music has political meaning woven into it the moment it is played, whether on a dancefloor or in a bedroom. And every act has political implications – wheth
Play Pippin Barr’s new game about dodging. Lose.
The only things certain in gaming are death and (sales) taxes, so in All’s Well that Ends Well, Pippin Barr just cuts to the chase and presents the player with an essentially untenable situation-you are an object, sometimes an airplane, sometimes a Lego figurine, sometimes a fork, and you have to na
Nom Nom de Plume: Yes, those are Space Invaders waffles designed by a famous French street artist.
The newest solo show from street artist/arcade fetishist Invader at the Outsiders Gallery in London will be Space Invader-themed (and hopefully flavored) waffles. -Jamin [Arrested Motion]
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