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

Cheat Sheet 5/3: Iwata talks the future of Nintendo, the Halo-Gears crossover that almost was, and James Frey rides again

We know mainstream videogame news can be a lot. We did the heavy lifting. Here’s the haps: –Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata orates on the emergence of tablets, social games, and the weaknesses of the Wii. –US Congress is questioning Sony about the PlayStation Network hack. Also, Sony Online Entertainment re

New videogame helps Cambodian kids avoid landmines

A team from Michigan State University has built a game to help kids in Cambodia avoid land mines. More than 4 million land mines still litter the SE Asian country. From the LA Times: “I think it’s fun, and it teaches me to be more careful,” said Chob Sopheak, 14, a tester in Phnom Penh whose neighbo

Can videogames play other videogames? (Apparently!)

Skynet was days ago, but that doesn’t mean the future of machines has halted. This is pretty cool — a “code-bending” instrument that allows for novel manipulation: Video games can play other video games. Music synthesizers can control word processors. Feedback loops turn everyday software tropes int

PAUSE: Joy Division x Game Boy

[via]

Flashback: Alan Alda on the Atari

Baseball as evolutionary sport

We forget sometimes that videogames are part of a larger rubric of play, but these observations on how baseball “evolved” from Tim Carmody over at Snarkmarket are dead-on. You could probably make a similar argument about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: And every difference between early baseball and t

May 2, 2011, 1:00 pm

PAUSE: Mario loses his head. [via]