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Christian Marclay's The Clock is a game of looking
Twenty-four hours of film assembled entirely from clocks, and the behavior it produces is not watching at all but sightseeing, closer to a game than cinema.
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Rui Hu: The infinite futures of games
Artist Rui Hu blends game engines, installation art, and memory to examine how virtual spaces infiltrate our physical world.
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Inside the Kubrickian spaces of Twelve Minutes
Visual artist Luis Antonio’s been around. He used to work at a couple big name game companies (Rockstar and Ubisoft). But, feeling unfulfilled, he jumped ship to work on Jonathan Blow’s The Witness, a game that incidentally inspired him to learn programming and pursue his own personal project, Twelv
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SUPERHOT is so close it’s burning our skin
The wait for SUPERHOT is over. Almost. With a newly announced release date of February 25th, the high-contrast, low-poly fever dreams of the Poland-based Superhot Team are only a few weeks away. A teaser trailer that accompanied the announcement shows these highly-stylized bullet hallucinations in a
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SUPERHOT and the unique temporality of videogames
When the Wachowskis transported bullet-time over from Hong Kong cinema to The Matrix (1999), mainstream western audiences were wowed. This was the beginning of something new for action cinema, the ability for the camera to pivot around action, playing a moment from a multiplicity of angles that stun
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Time Magazine might not get virtual reality, but The New Yorker does
Watching traditional media outlets like Time scramble to try and wrap their minds around something like virtual reality is, well, kinda adorable. Don’t get me wrong: for all the patronizing smugness we feel about knowing a bit more about emerging technologies (since we’re, you know, a videogame arts
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Merrily Perily is a comedy of errors about poison and pooping yourself
There’s a certain type of prank prevalent on YouTube where the prankster dribbles hot sauce onto a friend’s food and also into their drink, so that once they eat the food and realize the predicament they’re now in, reaching for their drink will only make things worse.Merrily Perily takes that prank
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The weird moral time travel in GTA V
GTA V is a really bloody Groundhog Day remake
Review
Life is Strange Episode Four: It’s Almost Over, Baby Blue
A videogame series blooming into early adulthood.
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When a ten-second journey through the apocalypse feels like a lifetime
If you’ve ever fallen before, you know firsthand that time is relative. You could be looking at your watch one minute—the second hand ticking onward in steady calculation—and then, in the next, you could be bending time and space as your limbs fly through the air. When you lose control of your body,
Review
Everything changes in Life Is Strange’s third episode
A tale of two butterflies.
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The 180Watch lets you game the LSAT, and may help with anxiety
Do you really need this?