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So there’s the website called Metacritic. They aggregate reviews and rate things. Lots of things. Books. Movies. And most importantly, videogames. But unlike other industries, people who make games get their bonuses tied to the Metacritic scores. Understandably, game designers were none to pleased
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So despite the name, and we hate to be sticklers, this is more of a Streets of Rage thing, but, you know, no big deal. French electropop trio We Are Enfant Terrible generated this homage to the brawler genre, only with more Francophilia, keyboard solos, and style. Also, yeah yeah, this came out last
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So Color is an iOs app. According to its description: Color (Colour) is fun way to create a public photo album with your friends using multiple iPhones. Everything is instantly shared among everyone taking photos and videos using the Color app. Pretty straightforward, right? Social networking with
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Over at Instructables, they’ve put together a nice little primer for a 900 LED table you can build to play Pong on. Just in case you weren’t busy this week.
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Berlin-based photographer Stephen Tillmans is a man after our own heart. He recently created a series of photographs of that split second when a television is shut down and the image fades into the ether. The results are both precise and surreal, drawing attention to flicker of energy few of us have
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future
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“I want to turn every aspect of our lives into a game by marrying the digital and the physical.” — That’s Vivian Rosenthal who Fast Company recently profiled as she attempts to toe the line between high-tech marketing and conceptual art. More notes about one of her projects: After Rosenthal gradua
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In honor of LCD Soundsystem’s final show this weekend, a terse statement from the band’s frontman/mastermind James Murphy on the ease/utility/lucrativeness of DJing vs. videogame testing.
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“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” — Plato
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For the most of the history of games, they have been social experiences. Games like Solitaire were anomalous for their single-player game play. Writer Chuck Wendig was curious why so many videogame protagonists are afforded the luxury of solitude. Why don’t these digital wanderers have any friends?
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Videogame ratings are at the heart of the upcoming Supreme Court decision, but much like Kirby Dick’s 2006 documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated exposed some of the problems of the movie rating system, an MIT research is attempting to do the same. Konstantin Mitgutsch is actually a scientific board
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File under “Winning.” An opportunistic California company has decided that they have seen the future of games and it is called Sheen. Hyro-Gliff has decided to file a variety of trademarks based on all the crazy things that Sheen has said over the last few weeks. We hope it’s a cover-based shooter