Art
The history of typography is long and rich, and now it's a video game. Type:Rider, created by Paris-based designer Théo Le Du Fuentes with Cosmografik, starts with cuneiform and proceeds through moveable type all the way to modern fonts like the loathed Comic Sans.
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While a recent report showed that almost half of those who play video games are women, the representation of women in game design is much lower. To increase female visibility, and in the hopes of encouraging would-be designers, the Museum of Design Atlanta is hosting the first exhibition on women as
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We are a long way from the panning 8-bit landscapes of early video games into fully immersive other worlds that can be explored as places in their own right. Some of these digital destinations are documented in a new online series called Other Places.
Interview
The addition of video games to MoMA's collection has not been a decision unaccompanied by controversy. Last November, when the acquisitions were first announced, the Guardian’s Jonathan Jones roundly critiqued the announcement in a short but scathing post titled “Sorry MoMA, video games are not art.
News
MoMA announced several video game acquisitions this afternoon, marking the ongoing completion of the video game collection launched in November 2012. The new additions are: the Magnavox Odyssey console (1972), Pong (1972), Space Invaders (1978), Asteroids (1979), Tempest (1981), Yar’s Revenge (1982)
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As an art game playing off our constant need for reward, Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise propels you into surreal scenarios of strutting through a landscape of explosions unharmed, collecting endless coins, and jumping inhumanly high into a digital infinity.
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BRIGHTON, UK — While laid up in Freud's final consulting room, artist David Blandy was moved to recall a childhood trauma: “I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side.” A hypnotherapist encouraged him to continue: “Yo, dwelling in the past, flashbacks when I was young. Who ever thought tha
Opinion
There's only so much the brain can absorb in a museum, and for the 2012 Brains: The Mind as Matter exhibition at Wellcome Collection in London, the museum created an online game to keep their visitors' brains thinking about the anatomy of their own skulls. Called AXON, it's a surprisingly fast-pace
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"We are not supposed to know what happens in the future," states the first character you encounter in Year Walk, an iOS game released last month that pushes the boundaries of what experiences can be created through mobile gaming. More than just a series of puzzles or point-and-click game, Year Walk
Art
"Art Game" is a relatively recent coinage that can refer to a very artistic video game — Flower, for example. But it's also the title of indie developer Pippin Barr's latest creation, which takes its name extremely literally. Barr has turned the art world into a video game.
Opinion
World of Warcraft (WoW) has a massive following: in 2011, some 10 million users participated in the online role-playing game. And according to a New York Times article from last year, women comprise an increasing numbers of those players and of online gamers in general: they are, apparently, one the
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Published on The Verge yesterday is a long feature article on the history of the American arcade, which kicks things off with this line: "The defining feature of a 'real' arcade, however, is that there aren’t really any left." Photographer K. Shamlian would beg to differ. His images of an aging Sovi