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Category Archives: Videogames

Fantastic Indie Games to buy (DRM free + Charitable)

31-Jul-11

The third iteration of the Humble Indie Bundle is available for a limited time only (9 days left). You can find it HERE You know how some deals are typically known as ‘win-win’. Well the Humble Indie Bundle is a ‘win-win-win-win-win’. You can make it affordable by paying what you want for the bundle AND [...]

Why the makers of Mirrors Edge (DICE) should have a strong, strong word with Columbia Pictures

21-Jul-11

And speaking of all things mediated (or in this case re-mediated), heres the new trailer for the Amazing Spider-Man film released for 2012. Forget all the guff at the start (why reboot the franchise, 4 years after the last instalment?), fast forward to the 1st person ‘spidey’ bit at the 1.41 mark. Now watch the [...]

Produsage and Popaganda

13-Jul-11

The Plymouth Research group Transtechnology are delivering papers for this today. Looks like an interesting symposium. I’ve put the Transtech researchers in bold on the list of speakers. —————————————————— TEF Vienna Expert Seminar “Play and Prosume” Kunsthalle projectspace //13th July 2011, Wednesday 10 am – 7 pm Symposion/expert seminar Vienna: location: Kunsthalle project space karlsplatz Treitlstraße 2, [...]

The only decent thing about Wii U

10-Jun-11

I usually hate the announcement of new consoles. I hate everything about it, the smugness of the company, the juvenile approach that accompanies it (“I’m so excited”) and the wasted possibilities that accompany the reality after the saccharine tech demos. By wasted possibilities, I’m also alluding to new gaming forms and opportunities that could have [...]

Is this Real?

25-Apr-11

A Christian article on Portal 2 by “Ice Van Winkle”. I cannot figure out if this is hoax. The whole site has to be, but it is so cleverly done – there is no wink and a nod whatsoever and American Christian fundamentalism is bizarre anyway.

Portal Done Pro

11-Dec-10

For those who have played Valve’s Portal and know how devilishly difficult it is, here is someone who completes it IN 10 MINUTES. Examples such as this pose an ontological problem. The player has clearly spent an extraordinary amount of time with the Portal environment, so much so, that he/she knows every sincere detail of [...]

No 2: Counter Strike Freedom

28-Nov-10

Thought I should share this also; Its Eva and Franco Mattes again, with the performance piece, ‘Freedom’. Now the problem with this type of performance is, who actually benefits from this? There are many performance works that try to disrupt and expose the underlying conventions of violence inherent to games like Counter Strike. The two [...]

Forget Minority Report

13-Nov-10

As expected, the new peripheral add-on for Microsoft’s Xbox 360; ‘Kinect’ has been hacked into, the contents within used for someones bizarre ideas, like a technological pimp. Whats fascinating isn’t the somewhat expected connections to Minority Report or dozens of sci-fi desktop aesthetic interfaces; these types of connections were made when Kinect was previously announced as [...]

The Wrong Attitude

10-Sep-10

Bogost’s highlighted a couple of press articles in a recent post, one involving social games again. I don’t want to raise anymore debate on Bogost’s Critique of Social Games, but I thought I should forward an interesting statement (I don’t want to single it out) that one videogame blogger posted in direct response to Bogost’s [...]

A Eulogy for J. G. Ballard

06-Sep-10

Thats a description Sam Jacob had made of one of my undergraduate artworks: Absurd Car Chases. You can find the link here. Not having read any J.G. Ballard for years, I’ll quietly accept with a grateful smile. I had suddenly thought this today. Since I uploaded those works onto YouTube, I’ve had no idea if [...]