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We threw a party at MoMA!
We threw a party at New York’s Museum of Modern Art last night! It was called Arcade and it was a celebration of games, culture, and fun. These games were shown: Bit.Trip.Beat Echochrome B.U.T.T.O.N. (with extra-large buttons!) Starry Heavens (a life-sized boardgame by Eric Zimmerman and Nathalie
Turn your jpegs into Q*bert maps using awesome vector graphics
The image seen above isn’t your everyday pixel art. In fact, it’s part of a game—err, more appropriately, a “vector graphics scripting framework”. The good people at Paper.js have created Q*bertify, an endlessly amusing vector graphics scripting toy which transforms any old image on your desktop int
PAUSE: 8-bit honey-loving badger has a gamer’s appetite, channels Winnie the Pooh
–Lana Polansky Image by Laura Bifano
Watch this drug-addled attempt to recreate baseball history
The question arises frequently: What did Dock Ellis feel that one day on June 12, 1970, when he threw a no-hitter under the influence of LSD? Editor-in-chief A. J. Daulerio of Deadspin.com, a sports and culture website, aimed to find out, using his Xbox 360 and a copy of MLB 2K11 in the pursuit of j
Chillwave impresario Washed Out loves Angry Birds
In a recent interview with Pitchfork, Ernest Greene, who releases music under the name Washed Out and came to prominence after releasing homemade tracks on Myspace from his bedroom in rural Georgia, confessed to crushing a pig or two while on tour. I have an iPhone so I’ll play games quite a bit on
Making videogame choices matter, minus actual consequences
Game Set Watch’s Eric Caolli has written a very insightful piece on morality in games—or, rather, the lack thereof. How does a game designer make moral decisions meaningful when restarting or reloading take only the push of a button? Through Christine Love’s Don’t Take It Personally Babe, It Just Ai
Cheat Sheet 7/28: Activision awards indies, PSP (and PS2) surpass expectations, FemShep actress speaks
Like so many of life’s pleasures, we believe catching up on mainstream videogame news should be simple. -Activision awards two indie game developers. -Meanwhile, EA Sports is considering publishing indie games. –Get a look at some actual gameplay footage for Batman: Arkham City. -Zynga wants YOUR o
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