Starting in March the Louvre, one of the largest, most visited art museums in the world, plans to replace their audio guides with 5,000 Nintendo 3DS programmed by the game maker to give full tours in seven languages, the AFP reports. More »
I’m sure that if Indiana Jones were alive today, and not a fictional character portrayed by Harrison Ford, he would look at video games and say “they belong in a museum.”
We agree, and now they do belong in a museum. Well, some of them at least. More »
While the argument over video games as art rages on, there can be no denying that games have influenced art, as evidenced by the WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon at the Laguna Art Museum in California. More »
The Strong National Museum of Play has officially established The National Centre for the History of Electronic Games, celebrating video gaming’s role in American playtime.
Infamously infamous first-person shooter Postal 2 will be making an appearance at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, the game’s developer’s said today.
As the cultural impact of gaming becomes more apparent to societies where the hobby was once considered as something only children and ‘older children’ participate in, groups are understandably taking steps to help preserve the rich legacy of video game culture. To that end, academics at Nottingham Trent University have moved to form the United Kingdom’s First National Videogame Archive in order to preserve not only consoles, games, and code, but a wide range of items from across the industry that represent gaming’s impact on the UK.
Dr James Newman, from Nottingham Trent University’s Centre for Contemporary Play, said: “The National Videogame Archive is an important resource for preserving elements of our national cultural heritage. We don’t just want to create a virtual museum full of code or screenshots that you could see online. The archive will really get to grips with what is a very creative, social and productive culture.”
The National Videogame Archive will be housed at the National Media Museum in Bradford, and will be launched at this year’s GameCity 3 festival in Nottingham.
