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Stop-motion surf vid features Playmobil dudes, sheet waves, summer fun.
VIdeo French animator and artist Karim Rejeb is all about going to the beach and surfing. The short is a follow-up to Rejeb’s first film LINO and is all set to music by SMILE. [via Laughing Squid]
Can avatars help socially-awkward students adjust?
Too much Freaks and Geeks on the mind this AM. A new program helps kids interact via avatars: The simulation, designed for children ages 8 to 12, allows clinicians to play the roles of the avatars while the children sit at a computer in a different room and respond to situations they encounter routi
The plight of Metal Gear Online and the limits of videogame preservation.
Video Metal Gear Online – which sought to bring stealth action into the HD online arena – has officially gone offline. Konami shut down the servers for the game June 12th. The game stood in staunch comparison to the majority of twitchy, fast-paced online shooters that were its contemporaries. Rather
A pixelated Alfred Hitchcock, among others, now comes in box.
The Puxxle is the vinyl sticker solution to all your analog, 8-bit idolatry needs–a puzzle made from pixels. Whether its Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Frida Kahlo, Salvado Dali, or a chipmunk, these Spanish designers will box it up and send it directly to your door. Order them al
KS contributor and flash game fave Pippin Barr’s new game is Full Metal Jacket via a Tiger handheld.
Pippin Barr’s flash games have dark punchlines. The writer, scholar, and maker designs games like a Steven Wright or Mitch Hedberg writes a joke, sardonically exposing the terror of the banal (waiting in line for The Artist is Present) or the banality of the terrible (Let’s Play: Greek Punishment, S
Now PBS takes 8-bit seriously–in the form of a 7-minute web documentary.
video In a classic case of medium-is-the-message, a commercial-like manifesto or manifesto-like commercial called “The Evolution of 8-bit” appeared last week on Off Book, which is PBS’s alt-culture Tumblr. It’s a fun-sized, snacktime documentary of 8-bit history and ideology sans specific agenda. Pr
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