smithsonian
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Spacewar! Creators Didn’t Know They Were Making History
1Long after I’m dead, if the country remains unscathed, there will be a recording with me on it in the Smithsonian. On it, I will be heard asking the developers of Spacewar! if they had any idea what the video game industry was going to become when they made their game in 1962.
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Video Games Are Now Art… Finally!
As far as I’m concerned the ‘are video games art’ conversation is about flaccid as it gets, and I have no intention of engaging with it, but the Smithsonian American Art Museum is currently running an exhibition titled ‘The Art of Video Games‘. Just sayin’.
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The Smithsonian’s Going To Throw A GameFest
You did vote to get your favourite games into The Art of Video Games exhibit, didn’t you? If not, don’t crying that Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom didn’t make it into the show. Anyway, we’re only two short months away from the exhibit’s opening of at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian’s announced…
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Smithsonian Extends Voting For ‘Art Of Video Games’ Nominees
The fed’rul gummint may shut down in the next two days, but voting on which games will be featured in 2012’s “The Art of Video Games” won’t. It’s been extended another 10 days to April 17. Winners still will be announced May 7. The show will open March 16, 2012 at the Smithsonian American Art…