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Austin artist Shawn Smith has been using pixels for lots of his work including Vicious Venue (above). His statement: My recent work explores my interest in birds of prey as a source of conceptual inspiration and analogy. I am fascinated by vultures and the visceral way most people react to them. Fo
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This is pretty rad. Ralph Baer, creator of the first commercial videogame system, is giving his stuff to the Strong Museum of Play: Ralph Baer donated his collection of original diagrams, schematics, engineering notes and patents that show the scope of his work during the formative years of the burg
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Attention NYC: We’re throwing a party for the BLIP festival on Thursday night.
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We all know Metacritic so we decided to aggregate them with the help of our friends at Nation. It’s a lovely visualization. Take a look.
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Last year, the blog A Dangerous Business published a series of photos and stories from an old Russian arcade with Soviet era games. The story popped back up this week via Kotaku and it’s still amazing. Take a look at the old photos on Flickr. The photo above: This was one of the first games we tri
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-Microsoft replaces old Xboxs that don’t work with their firmware update. -GagaVille arrives. -“Very small percentage” of PlayStation Network subscribers cancel. -“PlayStation Phone” lands next week. That’s all! Image via.
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Many of these games are obscure, but that does not hide their terribleness.
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An interesting new game model is launching in Japan via an Osaka-based company called Playism. Machinarium (above) is one of their titles already localized in Japanese. Going forward, this will work in reverse as well. While Playism’s launch titles consist primarily of indie games developed overseas
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Videogame name generator is predictably ridiculous Given the amount of garbage the industry generates, these aren’t sounding so bad. Some of our faves so far: Dracula’s Quantuum Havoc Looney Toon Florist Reloaded Transvestite Vocabulary – 3rd Strike M.C. Escher’s Ninja Offensive Red Hot Whale Fiasco
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Our art columnist Kyle Chayka laments the search for realism: There will come a point when photorealism in videogames reaches its zenith-when the grass your avatar treads on looks and bends like real grass, when polygon glitches no longer exist. See a trailer of Battlefield 3 gameplay or Crysis 2 fo