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Link My Famicase Exhibition 2010
With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The…

May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments
Link Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds
When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this.…

May 12 2010, 3:28pm | Comments
Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is…

April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments
Link Video games can never be art
Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of…

April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments
Link Hands-on: Sleep Is Death
A lot of game critics you talk to will tell you that, after making a career of playing games, it takes a lot to impress them. But that's not exactly…

April 6 2010, 9:03am | Comments
Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be…

March 10 2010, 9:39am | Comments
Link First-Person Tetris
A head spinning new take on the classic videogame. Play it until your sense of direction explodes.

January 15 2010, 3:58am | Comments
Link Evidence of Everything Exploding
A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

January 5 2010, 8:54am | Comments
Link The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009
Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in…

January 5 2010, 8:50am | Comments
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December 8 2009, 1:12pm | Comments
Link French magazine reportedly confirms MJ's involvement with Sonic…
One of the longest running rumors of the video game community is the claim that Michael Jackson contributed to the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 to some degree --…

December 3 2009, 3:45pm | Comments
Link lose/lose
Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien,…

October 1 2009, 5:30am | Comments
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August 7 2009, 9:13am | Comments
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July 21 2009, 5:33pm | Comments
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July 21 2009, 5:21pm | Comments
Link What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have…
What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games.…

July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments
Link Take two video games and call me in…
Growing scientific evidence demonstrates that the human brain dynamically changes in response to experience and to changes in the environment, a phenomenon that is known as “plasticity.” It is also…

July 1 2009, 9:22am | Comments
Link Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island
About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to…

June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments
Link Closure
A surreal spectacle of a game, balanced half-way between the whole and the gap

May 24 2009, 3:04pm | Comments
Link Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy…
Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are…

May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments

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