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September 18, 2011, 11:10 am
ArtInfo reports that artist Pippin Barr created an 8-bit video game to simulate the experience of sitting with Marina Abramovic at MoMA, which was available in real-life in Fall 2010. The game includes waiting in line and paying museum admission. Players are confronted with a long queue of 8-bit
NHL 2012 includes playable female characters
Well, sort of. The newest installation in EA Sports’ long-running NHL series now offers the ability to, when creating a playable character, to give your avatar a female face. The change— a first for EA Sports— comes at the behest of Lexi Peters, a 14 year-old from Buffalo, New York who wrote the spo
Is this the Mercury Prize of games? Introducing GameCity Prize
GameCity, a prominent UK videogame festival, recently unveiled the GameCity Prize, a new type of videogame award meant to honor a game that most significantly pushes the artistic limits for what they call “one of the most significant cultural forms of our age.” The winner will be judged by a panel c
PAUSE: This "Purple Rain" NES title really should have been more popular
From the Workman Says Things tumblelog: There are 3 people on Earth who own one of these. I am one of them. We are painfully jealous. –Lana Polansky [via]
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