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“Button-mashing” used to be entirely a matter of player skill meeting the impossible difficulty of a game, ultimately ending with the controller being hurled at the screen in frustration. Engineers from the University of Utah are taking the concept to the next level with a new videogame controller.
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The Kinect’s technology is largely controlled by the physical borders around it—the finite space between the single-camera -holding-console and the user that can detect movements with an adequate level of precision. Chris Harrison, a researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie
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Michel McBride-Carpentier’s new title Bauhaus Break is a “casual drop & match game for iOS influenced by Set and Drop7, with a Constructivist art style.” It’s also a bit tough as you have to match similar object by similarity or difference. But the aesthetic sensibility is quite the highlight as Mc-
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A common theme in videogames and their corresponding criticism is the question of portrayal and intent. The medium tends to exchange in a hefty currency of violence, sex, and death (see Jamin’s introductory essay to Kill Screen in Issue 0) that bears a correspondingly heavy cultural baggage. Greg Pe
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Renaud Hallée wrote us about the protoype of his new game “Tambour.” The visuals are sparse, but the concept is fascinating. Two drummers, one battle. Each player sends armies of notes against the other to vie for rhythmic supremecy. Take a look. Video -Jamin Warren
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So this game Mass Effect 3 came out today, and if online videogame journals teach me anything, it’s a pretty big deal. Longtime fans of the series and newcomers alike wondered: what’s going to happen to Shepard and his multispecies team of intergalactic ass-kickers? Will the third act tie everything
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As part of an installation, Ana Soler‘s more than 2,000 tennis balls dot the Mustang Art Gallery. [Via Pulmonaire]
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We often throw around new genre terms in games and much like micro-genres in music, their definitiions aren’t always clear. So there’s the new thing called social games. You may have heard of it. It comprises at least 12% of Facebook’s revenues. But what are they? Raul Aliaga Diaz gives a brief prim
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Hey everyone, here’s today’s news: – Adidas has sued THQ for 10 million dollars because they didn’t finish the fitness game based on miCoach. Talk about kicking them when they’re down. – Firaxis games, makers of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, have released a video discussing the game. – Fable devs Lionhead ha
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We want this. Performance artist Chris Burden has an installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that’s right out of FAO Schwartz. This is the same guy who had his assistant shoot himself in the arm during a performance piece, so you know he’s serious. It looks amazing. Via Hyperallergic: M
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We had our own sports week last month, because we think they often get the shaft in the realm of thinking about games. Now, a curator named David Little at the Minneapolis Institute of Art is taking the same tack for the art world. Titled “the Sports Show,” it will feature work such as Richard Avedo
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An item from last month’s NYT outlines the challenges of winning consumers over with “smart” technology. The big idea is that devices in your home should communicate with one another and with the Internet, but the challenge is that while tech-forward, many of the devices aren’t smart enough. “Smart”