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The folks at UK Resistance are tired of everything being so serious all the time so they’ve started a campaign to bring back the blue sky in games, just like old times: – Change everything that’s grey into blue. – From now on, everyone wears red shoes. – Make everything happen at midday or sunset. –
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Clip from animator Gabe Swarr’s “Life in the Analog Age” series.
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Over at Geek Dad UK, a father mixes things up with his daughter and let’s her make up some of the rules. The results are exciting/inspiring: Although inspired by her introduction to chess the day before, her game was fresh and creative — it was different in ways that an adult steeped in chess would
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PAUSE: Jason Levesque’s Anatomical Nesting Dolls For those who love Stacking a little bit too much… [via]
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The first from our new ethics columnist Dustin Locke, an assistant professor of philosophy in at Claremont McKenna College, who looks at the different styles of ethical play in games: In addition to Restraints and Rules, however, there is a third R of gameplay control: Wrongs. These are the ethical
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Host Michele Norris speaks to Jamin Warren, co-founder of the video game magazine Kill Screen, about the cover of the wildly popular Madden Football game series. It’s a big honor for a football player to make the cover of the game. But if you believe fans – and even some players – once you’re on tha
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PAUSE: Susan Thai’s “Yves Klein” Based on the French artis Yves Klein’s Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void) More of Thai’s work here.
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First, the Great Gatsby. Now the pop artist. [via]
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Fast Company has an excellent piece today on how jihadist sites are using gamification techniques that have been all the rage these days. The interview stars security consultants Jarret Brachman and Alix Levine who also wrote a piece for Foreign Policy on the subject: Did any jihadist sites you enco
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It’s hard to keep up with mainstream gaming news, so we’ll do the heavy lifting for you. Here are ten things that happened yesterday in the world of games: 1. Deus Ex: Human Revolution composer says “transhumanist” themes inspired the score. 2. The Infamous 2 beta was extended due to ongoing PlaySta
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Forget Pokemon. The Times reports on an uptick of bridge among school kids. Their efforts to promote bridge among students have helped revive a game that peaked in popularity in the years after World War II, and have redefined it from a leisurely pastime for the elderly to a game fit for intersch
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Mitch Swenson spent some time reporting on the upheaval in Egypt, but found his most meaningful experience playing a videogame in the midst of “Tent City”: Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the revolution in Egypt, means “Freedom Square” in Arabic. And since my January deployment in Cairo, just before