I loved The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao from Pulitzer-winning novelist Junot Díaz and his review of Grand Theft Auto IV a couple years back is equally magical. Good to know his new short story collection (below) wears its loyalties on the cover.
Looks like biology is still our ideal model for technology, as these builders take a step back to try and replicate the complexity of the world instead of simplify it. From Wired: The research, published today in the Journal of Neuroengineering by researchers from the University of Arizona, could he
Rob Fahey has just posted a sobering piece about maturity in videogames that’s as critical as it is optimistic. Video games are a creative medium, and as such they intersect with many different fields of human experience – but they’re also still exploring the bounds and possibilities of technology
Franciose Gamma, Soul w/ Contour Barcelona-based Franciose Gamma’s synthetic treatment of human form is more like Rodin than what some call, vaguely, contemporary net-art. Subsumed by currents both transcendent and excrutiating, the figures combusted offscreen for the first time in his recent galler
For nearly twenty years, French cosmetics empire L’Oreal has apparently been using a game to recruit the employee who can shoot their brand into the next dimension. Perhaps to no one’s surprise, the game called Brandstorm (bold added for clarity, pizzazz) is great at naming winners, applicants who c
According to an article at the BBC, children may be teaching themselves to read in the near future with the help of technology. MagicTown is a “world that unites books and gameplay,” designed for children on the web and the iPad, that is trying to preserve the tradition of storytelling for a future
Close enough. “A” for unintentional effort. Spotted on Houston and Essex.
video Fez‘s 8-bit visual aesthetic may be inspired by videogame history, but its soundtrack draws from a differing long-gone era: the romantic era of classical music. Listen to the above track from Fez‘s soundtrack, composed by Disasterpeace, and note that it is actually a synthesized version of Pré