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Twitter Links "How to Do Things with Videogames" by Ian Bogost
From Roger Ebert’s pedantic proclamation that “video games can never be art” to the clichéd fawning over the truckloads of revenue generated by each…

January 13 2012, 3:50am | Comments
Twitter Links The 20 Best Videogames of 2011
2011 was a tremendous year for the videogame. A pile of big-budget, years-in-the-making blockbusters delivered on all of their promises and then some. Clever…

December 20 2011, 3:35pm | Comments
Link VideoGames can't tell stories
Games don’t do storytelling well because they can’t deliver the four key components of story. There is no hero. Time is in the control of the player, not the creator.…

November 24 2011, 3:53am | Comments
Link The Artist is Present (a video game about…
Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes…

September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments
Twitter Links Spy Party ( #videogame preview) : Turing, eat your heart out http://t.co/rEL3V1Z via @joystiq #ai #play…
Spy Party ( #videogame preview) : Turing, eat your heart out http://t.co/rEL3V1Z via @joystiq #ai #play #innovation #interactivity #x

September 12 2011, 3:23am | Comments
Twitter Links Spy Party : Turing, eat your heart out
These days, multiplayer games are all about letting the player play the way that they want to. Shooters let you customize your loadouts, racers…

September 3 2011, 4:30am | Comments
Link Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a…
How do you make a videogame that, in some sense, is a religion, especially if you’re an atheist? Rohrer began by defining the sort of spiritual practice that interested him,…

July 24 2011, 4:03am | Comments
Link Pitchfork Interviews: Björk
Björk's forthcoming Biophilia is an album. It's also an iPad app suite featuring interactive programs for each of its 10 songs... and a treatise on the natural world that involves…

July 4 2011, 12:02pm | Comments
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May 6 2011, 3:14am | Comments
Link Paramecium video games
In a clever juxtaposition of biology and technology, Stanford physicist, Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his team are creating paramecia-based versions of classic video games that you can play by controlling the…

January 20 2011, 5:16pm | Comments
Link Purpose-Driven Life
Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at…

October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments
Link 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive
This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "12 Events That Will Change Everything," which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was…

July 14 2010, 9:05am | Comments

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