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The Greatest Graffiti Game That Never Was
As I’ve lamented here previously, graffiti is an artform that’s been woefully under-represented in video games. Something Diego Bergia agrees with.
We’re Scared Right Now: What Today’s Video Games Say About The Moment We Live In
A society leaves behind a pretty decent map of its psychology in the culture it creates. For example, the 1950s brought us a number of science fiction films that remain cultural touchstones to this day. And as any undergraduate student taking a Film Studies 101 course can tell you, a huge number of those movies existed more as a manifestation of that decade’s cultural paranoia than as films unto themselves.
Not Getting Stabbed Is Harder In Real Life
You know in a video game or a movie, how the hero easily grabs a knife from an attacker and subdues that enemy? Well, that’s in video games or movies — fantasy! Real life is different.
Is ‘All This Violence’ Really What Video Games Are Made Of?
Last week, in the chaos around the total meltdown of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer 38 Studios, one line stood out.
Hey Capcom, This Five Year-Old Kid Has Some Ideas For New Mega Man Games
Capcom is out of ideas (or at least the willpower) for new Mega Man games. Little Mark here, though, Mark is a fountain of ideas. Not only does he know everything about the Blue Bomber and his games, he knows exactly what he wants from a new Mega Man game.
8-Bit George Washington And Adolf Hitler Fight With Cyborg Dinosaurs In This Time Travel Art Show
Sure, you could debate legislative achievements and spheres of influence to determine who history’s greatest leader was. But you could also imagine an old-school video game where Teddy Roosevelt and Josef Stalin — looking a lot like Nintendo’s Mario — face off riding weaponised extinct giant lizards. Artist Jude Buffum has done the latter and we are all richer for it.
