glitch art
Glitch art and arcade games shared a weekend in Chicago
Bee Nix's Glitch'N'Games ran Oct. 2 and 3 across three venues, then streamed its talks to the Fubar biennale in Zagreb.
hardware
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Abandoned Miis come back in a homebrew Wii game
Janne Schimmel and Rein van der Woerd pulled forgotten avatars off secondhand Nintendo consoles
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The LAN party revival makes public radio
KCRW sent Jennifer Swann to Paizley Lee’s roving Dead Internet Theory, where Angelenos haul towers and CRTs for the pleasure of one cable.
freeculture.api
The mouse in this AI war game is a demonic latex hand
freeculture.api built an idle game about autonomous weapons into a field-deployable hardshell case—and the critique is in the hardware.
CRT
Cathode Ray Missionaries
The strange appeal of scanlines on old TVs.
News
NES hack brings your old Nintendo online, complete with Twitter
Despite being over 30-years-old, and therefore predating public internet access, it turns out that the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) has actually been capable of connecting to the internet the whole time. All it takes is a “modem” and a little bit of hacking, courtesy of Femicom Museu
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The evolution of the LAN party
Where PCs and players are put to the test
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PC modder culture reaches new heights
Gone are the dull gray boxes of old. Today, players mod their PCs with all sorts of forms, themes, and tech.
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The Technical Challenges of Virtual Reality
Why a basic computer won’t let you step into virtual worlds.
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Behind the scenes at a major esports event
What does it take to make the world’s biggest gaming tournaments run?
Alan Weisman
The Play After Tomorrow
What will our consoles do without us?
Virtual Boy
Seeing Red
The tragic prescience of Nintendo’s Virtual Boy