PaRappa the Rapper has always been a hard game, but now it may be harder than ever due to a common issue of display-latency in HDTVs. The HDTV’s fatal flaw lies in its many filters: deep-blacks, vivid colors and high-resolutions may look fantastic, but the amount of post-processing power required to
Eddo Stern is a multimedia artist working around the politics and philosophies of games, and the games of politics and philosophy. In a review of his recent exhibition at Young Projects in LA, Sharon Mizota makes note of two games displayed for public play, Darkgame and Goldstation, which touch on e
video At a recent press preview in NYC, I had a chance to demo parts of the upcoming Rayman Legends, a follow-up to 2011’s Rayman Origins. Legends‘ gameplay will be familiar to fans of Origins, only slicker: it carries on Origins’ distinct, painterly art style, now with even more refinement and the
This real-time simulation of a satellite revolving around a simple sphere may be the first computer-generated film. This film was a specific project to define how a particular type of satellite would move through space. Edward E. Zajac made, and narrated, the film, which is considered to be possibl
When the Brooklyn tech agency called Breakfast signed on to help TNT advertise another detective show, called Perception, they built the billboard of the interactive future. Made out 44,000 black and white electromagnetic discs, the billboard displays letters until someone or something walks into it
Alison Bechdel, author of the classic, queer comic Dykes to Watch Out For, is distinguished not only for her comic contributions, but for popularizing “The Bechdel Test,” a test for movies that has three requirements: One, it has to have at least two women in it, who Two, talk to each other about Th
No, this is not a video from Deus Ex—though it certainly looks and sounds like one to me. Scientists from the US, UK, and Israel have developed a minimally invasive procedure to implant a chip that restores vision to people suffering from macular degeneration. ‘Bio-Retina incorporates various nano-