Video Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer produced this amazing sound sculpture to visualize a dancer’s movements with the use of a Kinect: The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For our work we asked a d
Is core gaming on the ropes? Jeff Grubb at VentureBeat thinks so in a long essay on the decline of traditional gaming categories. He points the ups and downs of THQ’s uDraw package, a Wacom-like drawing tablet for the Wii. After initial success, THQ doubled down to try and port the tablet to the Xbo
Spurred to action by The Corrections author Jonathan Franzen, Tim Clark takes a stab in the New York Review of Books at unravelling the idea that we need stories as Franzen maintains. Clark shoots for the self and argues that stories bring out a greater understanding of our own identities by locatin
April fool’s is over, this is news you can trust: – BioWare is really excited about using the Kinect in the future after their voice integration with Mass Effect 3. – Worms: Revolution has been announced for the third quarter of 2012. – Planetside 2, the upcoming MMO-FPS has released a video showing
Slashfilm‘s Germain Lussier recently wrote about Mondo, an art collective that sprouted from the Alamo Drafthouse, a small series of cinemas famous for their treatment of the filmgoing expeience. Mondo is a group that has designed some of the most gorgeous collectible film posters over the past few
One of the better ways I’ve seen to support your team. [Via Reddit]
Tristan Louis, of TNL.net, has written an article discussing the ways that hacking and gaming culture have been perceived over time. The two groups have tended to get along rather well over time but now more than ever, they are both becoming accepted by the greater culture at large as well. The reas
MIT’s GAMBIT Game Lab will be holding the first ever Hokra tournament this weekend. The game premiered last year at NYU’s No Quarter event and has since become known as a great e-sport to those with access to it. Inspired by the soccer videogame FIFA, two teams of two players dodge, kick and score i