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Bookmark How Video Games Are Infiltrating—and Improving—Every Part of Our Lives
Games are sneaking into every part of our lives -- at home, school, and work. Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and even the Army depend on games. and Pretty soon, you'll be a…

December 8 2010, 7:46am | Comments
Bookmark Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior
Pac-Man is one of the most iconic video games of all time, and most people (even non-gamers) have at least a passing familiarity with it. The purpose of the game is…

December 5 2010, 4:10am | Comments
Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments
Bookmark Is There Too Much Exposition in Games?
"Exposition is a dirty word," was one of Kasavin's top points. Too many developers front- or back-load games with heavy exposition to create the game world instead of smartly weaving it…

October 7 2010, 2:31am | Comments
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October 6 2010, 11:45am | Comments
Bookmark Purpose-Driven Life
Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at the…

October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments
Bookmark Analysis: Portal and the Deconstruction of the Institution
In this in-depth analysis, Daniel Johnson discusses games, language and sociology with regard to Valve's Portal - please note that the article contains story spoilers for the game. In 1959 Erving…

September 10 2010, 7:33am | Comments
Bookmark Cave Painting: Videogames as Art
Lanchester allowed that computer games would never tell us as much about character as other forms of narrative, but pointed out two great virtues of the form: “The first is visual:…

September 3 2010, 6:29am | Comments
Bookmark The Dudleys
THE DUDLEYS! takes the adolescent memories of a man and translates them into a malfunctioning 8-bit video game, the kind he used to play as a young adult. But instead of…

July 28 2010, 3:09am | Comments
Bookmark Video Games And The Philosophy Of Art
The film critic Roger Ebert’s recent comments about video games and their potential as art, and especially the immense stir the comments caused on discussion forums all over the internet, shows…

July 11 2010, 4:32pm | Comments
Bookmark Are video games the next great art form?
Video games have come a very long way since the 1980s... As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, "Extra Lives: Why Video…

June 21 2010, 7:02am | Comments
Bookmark The Chess Master and the Computer
In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next,…

June 20 2010, 3:11pm | Comments
Bookmark The new wave of retro gaming
Sometimes it's really hard to let go. Like that vinyl collection you've got stashed away in the attic or those VHS cassettes of movies that you've already replaced on DVD that…

June 18 2010, 9:37am | Comments
Bookmark The Pleasures of Imagination
How do Americans spend their leisure time? The answer might surprise you. The most common voluntary activity is not eating, drinking alcohol, or taking drugs. It is not socializing with friends,…

June 1 2010, 3:54am | Comments
Bookmark 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 premise?…

May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments
Bookmark 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. It…

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 playing The Game",[4] or alternatively, "You are always playing The Game.") Whenever one thinks about…

April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments
Bookmark 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 messages…

April 18 2010, 3:47pm | Comments
Bookmark 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 the…

April 6 2010, 9:03am | Comments
Ask 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 be boiled down to one among only a few types e.g. Hero leaves the kingdom;…

March 10 2010, 8:39am | Comments
Bookmark First-Person Tetris
A head spinning new take on the classic videogame. Play it until your sense of direction explodes.

January 15 2010, 2:58am | Comments
Bookmark Evidence of Everything Exploding
A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

January 5 2010, 7:54am | Comments
Bookmark 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 2009,…

January 5 2010, 7:50am | Comments
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December 8 2009, 12:12pm | Comments
Bookmark French magazine reportedly confirms MJ's involvement with Sonic 3 soundtrack
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 -- a…

December 3 2009, 2:45pm | Comments
Bookmark 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, the…

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
Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…
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. We’ve…

July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark Take two video games and call me in the morning
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 believed…

July 1 2009, 9:22am | Comments
Bookmark 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 refresh…

June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments

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