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Tom Sachs’ new exhibition is Synecdoche, New York meets Apollo 13.
video Contemporary artist Tom Sachs’ SPACE PROGRAM: MARS takes us as close to Mars as many of us will ever get. With the help of public art organization Creative Time, Sachs recreates the Martian landscape in the 55,000 square foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall of the Park Ave. Armory. The immersive inst
Shadow of the Colossus movie gets a director, a little hope, and whiff of failure.
Josh Trank has just been hired to direct the upcoming film adaptation of Fumito Ueda’s Shadow of the Colossus. Trank’s made his directorial debut earlier this year with Chronicle, a brooding look at what would happen if a group of alienated teenagers actually got super powers. Hint: they didn’t try
What does StarCraft II have in common with weather forecasting and blackjack? Risk.
The idea of measurable IQs is taken-for-granted these days, but an emerging body of research is shedding new light on different kinds of intelligence a person can have. Dylan Evans studies “risk quotient” intelligence, a way of thinking about probabilities that, it turns out, most people are exceedi
XCOM gets delayed until after Mayan Apocalypse. Does nostalgia make it impossible to break new ground in games?
Nobody loves XCOM anymore. The game was once talked about with reverent nostalgia, either one of the best games ever made, or literally, the best. As is often the case with videogame claim-making, the impassioned words meant very little. The conclusion is clear enough but the logic behind it seems a
Cheat Sheet 5/23: Judge recommends 360 ban, final Wii U kits in the wild, and musical kung fu comes to Vita.
Today, Egyptians voted in their first presidential election since the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. The videogame world celebrated with these breaking stories: -U.S. judge recommends ban on Xbox 360 sales in North America. -Final Wii U development kits out in the world, “at least as good” as the PS3
Is the new Great Gatsby movie stupider than the 8-bit game adaptation?
video It shouldn’t be an insult to call something stupid. We’re all stupid when put in contexts we don’t connect with. What gives away a person’s true character is not their relative intelligence but the manner in which they deal with their implicit stupidity. To wit, the recently released trailer
Diablo 3 will prepare you for the misery of Major League Baseball.
Baseball is about suffering. For every proud Yankee fan there is a legion of defeated Brewers loyalists waiting in the dimly-lit sports bars masochistically hoping the next pitch won’t lead to failure. When it does, the heartbroken fan generates an instant nostalgia for those hopeful few seconds bef
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