That, my friends, is a play-doh controller. If you don’t believe me that it works, you can (and should) watch the video here. That was MaKey MaKey. It’s a Kickstarter by two graduate MIT students who look set to blow out our perceptions of what is and isn’t–or can be–a controller. Through an extreme
Though the trial between Activision and Call of Duty co-creators Jason West and Vince Zampella has yet to begin, pre-trial documents released last week claimed that the publisher tried to hack into the duo’s work computers. Thomas Fenady was Director of IT at Activision in 2009 and in a pre-trial de
How much would you spend to save the thing you love? For one SNES fan, that would be almost a decade and more than $10,000. A programmer by the name of byuu has dedicated his/her life to recreating the Super Nintendo, but unlike other emulation projects that allow you to play games of old, Byuu a te
Video Last week, I attended a early screening of Indie Game: The Movie (which I have the privilege to be in!). The film is playing all week at the IFC Center and around the country and is a testament to the awakening of independent game development. HBO picked up the film to convert into a dramatic
MoMA kicked off Contemporary Art Forum: Critical Play—The Game as an Art Form last night with an overview of critical and artist led play. Here are some quotes from the first session: Mary Flanagan: “Is thinking about games as an art form tied to the historic exchanges specific to art history, or is
Video Did you ever use a fingerboard as a teen? I did and I’m glad Australian company Penny Skateboards has captured that in a flick-flipping side-scroller called Penny Time, made by IV Motion with a thumping soundtrack from Brisbanite Hunz. It’s somewhere between Bit.Trip Runner and Canabalt, a run
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Community‘s latest season has been (I would argue) its best. As the show has been given more time to develop and spread out, it’s been able to really dissect television and what we love about it. Each episode has used and subverted television tropes to fantastic effect, commenting on genres and medi