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Now that mobile games are here, where will consoles go? Back down to the basement, clearly.
Ever since consoles beat out the personal computer as the dominant gaming platform by dint of sheer numbers, people have wondered what the fate of the PC will be. Now with the revolution in casual gaming and mobile platforms, are home consoles in the same commercial and cultural quandary? Wired take
So long, game retailers. But what’s next?
Dismal news continues to pour in about the sad state of gaming retail stores across Europe and Australia. The Australian Financial Review reports today that many shops are now simply cleaning house: Game Group isn’t the only retailer to feel the slow death of brick and mortar video games in Austral
"Have you ever played a racing game and wanted to play as the road…?" Now you can.
As part of this past weekend’s Molyjam, a 48-hour game creation competition based on the absurd tweets of Peter Molyneux parody account @Molydeux, Ben Pitt created a hilarious answer to the titular question. YOU ARE THE ROAD. [via Waxy]
A 3D Kinect-enabled sound sculpture turns a dancer’s motion into sand.
Video Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer produced this amazing sound sculpture to visualize a dancer’s movements with the use of a Kinect: The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For our work we asked a d
Are games missing their "middle class"?
Is core gaming on the ropes? Jeff Grubb at VentureBeat thinks so in a long essay on the decline of traditional gaming categories. He points the ups and downs of THQ’s uDraw package, a Wacom-like drawing tablet for the Wii. After initial success, THQ doubled down to try and port the tablet to the Xbo
Do videogames even need stories? Do we need stories at all?
Spurred to action by The Corrections author Jonathan Franzen, Tim Clark takes a stab in the New York Review of Books at unravelling the idea that we need stories as Franzen maintains. Clark shoots for the self and argues that stories bring out a greater understanding of our own identities by locatin
CHEAT SHEET 4/2: BioWare loves the Kinect, Another installment of Worms, and Planetside 2 is MASSIVE.
April fool’s is over, this is news you can trust: – BioWare is really excited about using the Kinect in the future after their voice integration with Mass Effect 3. – Worms: Revolution has been announced for the third quarter of 2012. – Planetside 2, the upcoming MMO-FPS has released a video showing
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