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The photos above belong to a whimsical, oddly humbling series called Relics, created by photographer Cody Williams. Williams took the idea of bringing an era alive—the 1980s, no less—and bleached it: Relics is a project playing off the idea that the white Greek statues that we see now were once bri
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry has once again teamed up with Icelandic avant-gardiste pop singer Björk to create a music video for her new track, Crystalline. The result? A weird, retro, lo-fi collision of bad 1980s special effects and Missile Command. As it should be.
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As part of it’s Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects exhibition, MoMA recently put M.I.T.’s Senseable City Lab project, BackTalk, on display. To raise awareness about what happens with our discarded cellphones, printers and computers when we upgrade, BackTalk follows o
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Let’s contemplate some more mainstream videogame news! –Introducing the Just Dance 3 Kinect trailer. -Get the latest on Tekken X Street Fighter straight from the director. -Blizzard’s next WoW expansion may be called Mists of Pandaria. -Ellen McLain, voice of GLaDOS, will be lending her talents f
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-Capcom is promising its “final” version of Street Fighter IV is in the works. –Diablo III will require an internet connection in order to play at all. –Gears of War 3 will feature rapper Ice T, thrash metal band Body Count musically and otherwise. -What’s new in videogame litigation: Zynga is be
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Brick Lane Remix I by David Batchelor, picked out of the London streets. For more click here.
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Happy August! Let’s welcome the new month with a fresh serving of mainstream videogame news. –A Song of Fire and Ice author George R.R. Martin pays Bungie Studios a visit. -Capcom wants you to decide Poison’s gender for the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken. -Creative director Trey Smith sings the
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Scott Laidlaw taught middle school for years, always incorporating games into his classroom. Now, as CEO and co-owner of Imagine Education, he’s bringing that expertise to classrooms across the country. His new game, Ko’s Journey, is based on a story Laidlaw heard while traveling in Peru. After rece
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Get ready for another eruption of mainstream videogame news! -Microsoft partners with IGN for Halo Fest. -Nintendo forecast is looking a little downcast these days. -Double Fine may be considering DLC for tower defense Trenched. -Ubisoft is impressed enough with its DRM for the rest of us. -NCSo
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We threw a party at New York’s Museum of Modern Art last night! It was called Arcade and it was a celebration of games, culture, and fun. These games were shown: Bit.Trip.Beat Echochrome B.U.T.T.O.N. (with extra-large buttons!) Starry Heavens (a life-sized boardgame by Eric Zimmerman and Nathalie
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The image seen above isn’t your everyday pixel art. In fact, it’s part of a game—err, more appropriately, a “vector graphics scripting framework”. The good people at Paper.js have created Q*bertify, an endlessly amusing vector graphics scripting toy which transforms any old image on your desktop int
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