Photos of Video Games needed for art project: Modern and retro #videogames
The Flaneur is looking for images of video games graphics from the oldest to the most up-to-date computers and consoles. If you play any game then we’d love to see a screen cap or photo of the graphics – please tweet them to @flaneurzine or send them to gallery@flaneur.me.uk with GRAPHICS in the title. Please include...
Moderate Your Games!
Back in the day, you needed some heavy duty software to play games online. And I don’t mean the sorts of flash games you find on your web browser- no, I am referring to the glorious Multi-User Dungeon, appropriately abbreviated MUD. For those of you unfamiliar with MUDs, they are a lot like old-school Dungeons & Dragons, in that...
Telling a Story with Cards
With my long holiday finally over, it’s time to get back to work in wonderful world of video games, and what better way to do so than completely side step the entire medium? This week, instead, I’ll be on about the popular card game Magic: The Gathering. One does not even need to play it...
Slender: 55 Megabites of Sheer Horror
Slender is just about one of the scariest experiences I’ve ever had. It manages to get close to the kind of horror I’ve only really encountered in Jerzey Kosinski’s harrowing Steps, or David Lynch’s Inland Empire. As with both of these, however, the experience of horror comes...
Games You Should Care About: Red Dead Redemption
Games You Should Care About is an ongoing feature where we pick out the best and highest artistically valued games and present them to you, an audience that might not have heard of them before, in a short essay. This edition, we take a look at Rockstar’s epic wild-west game, Red Dead Redemption. Rockstar Games created...
The Flaneur And Video Games
photo credit: brianbgv Hi, I’m Tom Bunting, The Flaneur’s new Video Game editor. Now, I know that some of you are rolling your eyes at the suggestion that The Flaneur needs a “video game” editor. Maybe you think video games are nothing more than children’s toys, maybe you think they turn young boys into sex-crazed...
