Video Games as the Patchwork Art
Share Art, to me, is wonderful because it has no rules; when you start to add rules to art, I feel it cripples what you can do. -Jim Sterling I have spoken before of Bioware’s Mass Effect 1 & 2 in generally high esteem. In addition to having well balanced, evolving gameplay, it featured Bioware’s...
An Art Form In Limbo: Updating The Great Games Debate
Share (Screen Shot From Limbo) Video gaming as an art form? The long-running debate has been rekindled. The artistic credentials of video gaming are being defended by curators at The Smithsonian Museum of American Art who are hosting the first major exhibition dedicated exclusively to gaming. Gamers like Enron (playwright Lucy Prebble) have also...
Sign up today! The Campaign for Test Matches to last Ten days (TCTMTLTD)
Share Welcome to The Campaign for Test Matches to last Ten days. Please sign up to show your support for this vital new campaign. Join the facebook group! Who are we? The Campaign for Test Matches to last Ten Days (from here on referred to with the easy-to-remember nickname “TCTMTLTD”) is a group of worried...
Dawn of the Digital Dinosaurs
Share The release of Bioware’s Sci-Fi RPG, Mass Effect Three, was met by the mainstream media with generally positive feedback. However, in addition to marking a milestone in Bioware’s history, it has become a popular icon of the dawning age of Computer-Centric Games. As anniversary upon anniversary rolls past the ever-popular PlayStation Three and X-Box...
Sprout’s Arty Facts Quiz
Share Sprout is an art group formed by a group of young artists living and working in London. The group is devoted to putting on art events in pop-up spaces. Utilizing venues from empty shops and offices to function rooms and bars, the project will bring art to different areas and communities around London in...
The Universal Status of Online Games
Share I bought Blizzard Studio’s seemingly ancient title Starcraft about two years ago. The game itself was a major hit at the time and reshaped much of the way Real Time Strategy games are made even today. A multitude of professional tournaments have been held in East Asia and a three-part sequel began episodic release nearly...
United, We Type
Share “You bust throught the door and create a diversion. They all turn and aim at you. You try to sweet talk them out of blowing your brains out, while I sneak around back, bust in, and *really* surprise ‘em.” A while ago I wrote an article about Interactive Literature that concerned namely the popular...
On Skateboarding in Video Games
Share Nintendo Entertainment has been the hub of casual video game entertainment since the point in time at which video games began to emerge as being a casual thing at all. However it is not my intent to make an address to casual games as a whole or even Nintendo’s in specific, but rather a facet that...
Old School Game Reviews: Pac-Man
Share “WACKA-WACKA-WACKA-WACKA-WACKA-WACKA!” Recognize that sound? That sound has been in the hearts of many for the last 31 years. The sound of the little yellow ¾ pizza we know as Pac-Man. If they had a Game of The Year back in the 80s, then Pac-Man would receive it hands down. Who wouldn’t want to play...
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Share On this previous Friday (the 11th) Bethesda Studios released their fifth installment of the Elder Scrolls video game series: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. And as is the case usually with games as physically large as this: one either loves it or hates it, and as for why – that is often a matter of personal...
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Wii Review
Share photo credit: Chris Makarsky Overall for me, Super Smash Bros Brawl is by far, and always will be, the best Wii game I have ever played. It was the only game that sold me for buying a Wii in the first place. It’s a game that will last you HOURS, has so much...
On Interactive Literature
Share I was an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons kid, you know, all the fantasy stuff that stimulated the creative mind that was actually about telling interesting stories with positive outcomes. Ben Croshaw of The Escapist Magazine Years ago, on one of my many ventures into the High Museum of Art, I saw a sculpture in a room of...
On the Thematics of Infamous
Share “Government unorthodoxy, judgment of morality, and origins of evil.” These are the great thematic discussions Sucker Punch Production’s Infamous subtly has with those who play the 2009 PlayStation 3 exclusive title. While these are things we all know much about, it bares mentioning here due to the fact that rarely do you play video...
Linger in Shadows : Computer game as art
Share Game: Linger in Shadows Developer: Plastic Platform: PC/Mac Review Drifting through an oil painting of clouds and cream colored skies; a beautiful symphony of harps and violins falls into our ears. We see portraits of members on the developing team: Plastic. Our floating camera lingers at one portrait longer than the others, and a...
On Google ShootView
Share Though it had been, for the longest of time, a powerful search engine by which much information has been passed to the individual, in recent years Google has emerged as a multitude of tools for internet users by providing navigation, email, a word processor, web browser, developer tool kits, and even an operating system...
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