15 years of the best of game-based arts and culture

Pause: You see sculptor Anish Kapoor, we see HAL 9000

Anish Kapoor. Untitled, 2008. Fibreglass and paint, 301×302×150 cm [via]

Portal 2 writer goes long on his art and craft

Game Center Lecture Series- Erik Wolpaw from NYU Game Center on Vimeo. Writer Erik Wolpaw gave a talk at NYU’s Game Center the other week. It’s a bit long — but if you love Portal 2, this is an exhaustive look at the humor of the game.

Cheat Sheet 5/12: Facebook game crash?, Portal 2 user levels, Minecraft conference

Mainstream videogame news can be a chore to wade through, so we’re here to help: –Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson mulls a real world conference. –Downloadable games for the 3DS are delayed. -Is Facebook gaming on the brink of a crash? -Entertainment Software Ratings Board quietly begins new

Rollercoaster Tycoon creator takes a stab at a $25 computer for developing world

David Braben, best known for the Rollercoaster Tycoon, has created a pint-sized wrist computer for the developing world.  To work the system, all one needs to do it plug a USB-based keyboard and mouse setup into the USB 2.0 port on the opposite end of the Pocket PC’s HDMI port. Additional storage co

Flashback: 1969 clip of Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison with a ping-pong videogame

Chimps can play videogames, demonstrate self-awareness

Researchers at the Primate Research Institute in Kyoto have been testing the limits of chimp’s self-awareness by seeing if they can play games.  One aspect of the self is known as self-agency – the feeling that we each control our own actions. To see if the ability existed in chimpanzees, humanity’s

Today on KS: We take iOS game One Single Life at face value

The title is emblematic of the lack of thought put into One Single Life. It’s redundant, for one. Was “Last Final Life” taken? Its two central ideas are borrowed from better sources. One Single Life is about jumping from one roof to another. While it emphasizes singular bounds over fast-paced parkou