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Today on Kill Screen: Games as design objects, Jeff Koons gets a first-person treatment
Do videogames count as design objects? NYU sociologist Harvey Molotch certainly thinks so as we are prone to think of videogames as another form of entertainment. But much like videogames, design faces the same problems of anonymity, disrespect, and cultural bias. However, design is now ascendant a
Videogames on the cover of ARTnews. This debate is finally over.
Videogames graced the cover of ARTnews this month with a lovely roundup of all the games-related projects that have been appearing over the last few years. Carolina A. Miranda gave this succinct description of Feng Mengbo’s Long March: Restart (pictured) which closes at PS1 this week. Clever culture
March 31, 2011, 10:52 am
From Esquire UK for their 20th Anniversary Take Cover project: When you look at their impressive body of work, Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne and LA Noire (coming in May), we suspected the results weren’t going to be straightforward. This, however, was beyond what we hoped for. As
Our Ratings, Our Selves
So there’s the website called Metacritic. They aggregate reviews and rate things. Lots of things. Books. Movies. And most importantly, videogames. But unlike other industries, people who make games get their bonuses tied to the Metacritic scores. Understandably, game designers were none to pleased
Snap Dragon – We Are Enfant Terrible (Double Dragon Remix)
So despite the name, and we hate to be sticklers, this is more of a Streets of Rage thing, but, you know, no big deal. French electropop trio We Are Enfant Terrible generated this homage to the brawler genre, only with more Francophilia, keyboard solos, and style. Also, yeah yeah, this came out last
Follow Adventure With Color?
So Color is an iOs app. According to its description: Color (Colour) is fun way to create a public photo album with your friends using multiple iPhones. Everything is instantly shared among everyone taking photos and videos using the Color app. Pretty straightforward, right? Social networking with
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