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What can toilet graffiti teach us about gendered speech?
Men are like / pantyhose / they either / run / cling / or don’t fit right / in the crotch -anonymous toilet graffiti Before the Internet, memes had to propagate through physical means like chain letters (laboriously hand copied), billboards, and graffiti. Bathroom graffiti in particular allows resea
PAUSE: Look at these wonderful copper-etchings of Pac-Man, Space Invaders.
Brighton-based artist Jim Harris has created a lovely new variation on sprite-art with a series of copper-plate etchings that recreate classic videogame sprites from Pac-Man and Space Invaders. The etchings are on display in The Brighton Five Pound Fringe show at The Rock Inn, Kemptown. Harris promi
Activision agrees to keep more dirty laundry unaired with settlement in Call of Duty lawsuit.
Yesterday Activision and Call of Duty co-creators Jason West and Vince Zampella reached legal settlement a day before their trial was set to begin. “All parties have reached a settlement in the dispute, the terms of which are strictly confidential,” Robert Schwartz, attorney for West and Zampella, s
Star Wars 1313 to test whether games can be fun without supernatural powers.
Star Wars 1313 is not a sequel to Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, the 2002 game that let players control Jango Fett as he tried to unravel a conspiracy. But it certainly feels like another pass on the same basic idea. Yesterday, LucasArts revealed Star Wars 1313 as the next major game in the franchise tha
Mario shills for the mayoral candidate in Acapulco election.
Politicians have long used videogames to help themselves look better. In 2005 Hilary Clinton introduced legislation to make the sale of violent videogames to minors a federal crime. Before her, Joseph Lieberman never seemed to tire of making hyperbolic claims about the morally degenerative effects o
Alone together: What the history of headphones has in common with handheld videogames.
If you think about it, it’s strange that we should individually own games. No one can own a game of tag or soccer. But a game of Mario or Pokémon can be yours through the generations. The strange sense of privately owning of a thing that was once shared as a function of community togetherness has be
Cheat Sheet 5/31: Nintendo gets a pirate arrested, vampires come to Skyrim, and Fez sales break 100,000.
Videogame news broke today. We fixed it: -Mortal Kombat team announces new fighter featuring Superman, Batman, and more. –New Indie Bundle includes Bastion, Amnesia, Limbo, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and others. -Nintendo patents vibrating stylus for the 3DS. –Fez sales pass 100,000 on Xbox
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