Larry Achiampong
Four decades of consoles move into the museum
Larry Achiampong's The Gaming Room furnishes Pixel Pioneers at the Boijmans with a playable living room—games as memory, kinship and diaspora.
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Review
Pokkén Tournament is killing my Pokémon vibe
“Kids play inside their homes now, and a lot had forgotten about catching insects. So had I. When I was making games, something clicked and I decided to make a game with that concept. Everything I did as a kid is kind of rolled into one—that’s what Pokémon is. Playing video games, watching TV, Ultra
News
Fighting game will pit Darwin against Tesla in brutal fisticuffs
Science Kombat, an upcoming newsgame created by Fred Di Giacomo Rocha and Otavio Cohen from Brazil’s Superinteressante science and culture magazine, aims to teach players about some of history’s greatest minds not by handing them a dry quiz, but by having a select group of notable scientists beat th
Review
Street Fighter V is for lovers
“ANOTHER FIGHT IS COMING YOUR WAY!” This is the siren sound of a Street Fighter match: two people getting ready to know each other without ever meeting. No matter how you dress it, Street Fighter V is an intimate experience dispersed globally. This Street Fighter has the distinction of a purely at-h
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Cheongsam to merge “virtual theatre” and videogames
Dubbed “virtual theatre” by its creators, Cheongsam is a game about chance encounters and the types of conversations that stretch until 3AM. It’s also about the role players have in creating a game’s story. Cast as a young man named Michael, you spend an evening getting to know an AI-controlled acqu
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Sir Michael Rocks’ new video is an anime come to life
Japanese culture and hip-hop have a long relationship, from the genre’s mid-90s kung-fu obsession to Kanye’s mid-oughts evocation of Japanese pop art up through its current commingling in the very production of Drake’s ubiquitous “Hotline Bling.” The Chicago emcee Sir Michael Rocks has always been a
Article
The Identity of a Fighter
What do fighting games teach us about identity?
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Don’t get fighting games? Rising Thunder may be for you
Now a Shoryuken is just a button press away
Article
Getting mad at videogames
When the competition gets way too salty.
Essay
A pixel artist renounces pixel art
The “pixel tax” comes to collect.
Article
The Golden Age of Shitty Videogame Adaptations
1994 doomed videogame movies.
News
Interactive exhibit features two decades of female game developers
From King’s Quest 1 to Portal.