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Jason Nelson on the future of games as a medium

Guardian has a nice interview with Jason Nelson, an artist/poet who, along with Cory Archangel, is on the forefront of digital art. The interview touches on Nelson’s exodus to Australia (good), the death of Flash (bad), his games (purposefully Byzantine) and where he was giving the interview (a wait

September 30th, go for Baroque with KS and "Johann Sebastian Joust"

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