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Should videogames lose all function?
This time Ico, pereninnal “games as art” go-to example, has managed to snare the New Yorker’s Chris Suellentrop. While the piece is mostly a review of the rerelease of Ico and designer Fumito Ueda’s most recent game Shadow of the Colossus, Suellentrop does touch on the enduring appeal of these games
George Romero played Space Invaders
According to Tom Savini, the O.G. of gore makeup, America’s favorite zombie enthusiast was a proto-gamer: “I had the first Space Invaders game that came out, and that was a miracle back then. When I was making Knightriders with George Romero, we would sit in the hotel room and play Space Invaders an
Monsters as icons: what zombies tell us about the Recession
The notion that monster figures reflect the collective unconscious is not exactly news. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein made a bold statement about inherent alienation symptomatic of modernity while the 1950s Invisible Man addressed racial identity at the onset of the Civil Rights Movement. Even the ove
PAUSE: This font is made from spare computer parts
Check out the entire set, microprocessors and all. -Jason Johnson
November 14, 2011, 9:14 am
With so much time and effort spent making virtual weapons in games like World of Warcraft and Monster Hunter, or cobbling together world monument #122 in Minecraft, it is refreshing to see a person who is actually making something. Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker is a short documentary that focu
I don’t want my MTV, or CDs, or newspapers, or…
First, it was the music industry. Then, newspapers. Now the television business is feeling the pinch as younger generations are turning to the internet to watch TV shows and movies, hanging subscription services out to dry. According to the chairman of Dish Network: Young people who move to an apart
PAUSE: Can pixels be queer?
48 Pixeles isn’t just worth checking out because of the gorgeous pixel art taken from classic games. The artist who sometimes goes by “48” has created LGBT pixel fan fiction, and the results are beautiful, warm, and sometimes a bit cheeky. Famed indie developer Anna Anthropy led us to it. “what i pa
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