Join Michael Winslow — the noise-making star from Police Academy — on a cursory run through The History of video game SFX. Indeed the video is far from exhaustive, going from the blips of Pong (1972) to those of Portal (2007) without much in between: just a few other arcade legends and shooters. All sounds like a bunch of noise to me, but it’s still a lot of fun! More »
If you can steel yourself for a post-modern jumble of space exploration and robotic sing-song, Upside Down Cake’s “Star Strike” offers a neat walk through Atari antiquity. Some of these games certainly deserve the homage. More »
Maybe you don’t quite know what all the Occupy Wall Street fuss is about. May you don’t care. The MK12 creative collective does, though, and they’ve used the Atari classic Pong to illustrate the basic philosophy of the social protest movement. More »
Damn. Now I don’t know what to believe. Earlier today, on Twitter, I was subjected to a number of retweets of this statement, claiming that gamers are unattractive. Now I see this — an ad from Dior, trying to pimp their sexy wares using video games. So come on folks – which is it? Are games sexy or are they not? More »
It doesn’t take many Lego pieces to make these video game icons, as seen on Encaja en CAMON’s Flickr stream.
Flickr user Sirekat likes to take Lego mini-figures out on the town. To the Louvre. To the Centre Pompidou. To the artsy places in Paris, including a museum for video games, seen here. More »
