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Art of the Arcade shows the design side of gaming
Art of the Arcade is a nascent website that showcases exactly what it sounds like it would showcase: game-related art, from shots of the Atari logo when it was still in its design stage, to some truly great illustrations taken from Intellivision’s gaming catalogue. The site’s still in its infancy, b
Yes, the Rockettes are channeling videogames now
Seriously. The New York Times reports that this Christmas’ Rockettes show at Radio City will forego the kick-lines of yore and replace it with something a bit more modern: an immersive videogame. Says one Rockette in the video: As every videogame level completes you add on more Rockettes and in the
Should game designers care about putting their name on a box?
LucasArts Creative Director Clint Hocking thinks not. In a new blog post he calls this baggage from the “floundering cultural models” of the “author-centric broadcast culture” that defines high art, from paintings to novels to film and television. Games, on the other hand, are part of an “actor-cent
Z is for Zelda: We should all be so lucky to have this child’s parents
Something’s a little off about someone turning a icon of consumerism into part of the end of their DIY baby book, but, like, Z is for Zelda! [via]
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