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The mighty IndieGames blog has recently announced that the Game Developers Conference 2014 organizers have selected fourteen teams for the debut of ALT.CTRL.GDC, "an on-site exhibit of alternative control schemes and interactions, including the Oculus Rift and AKAI LPD8 paired Please Don't, Spacedog!, caterpillar sim
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Alex Myers, WINNING, digital game, 2008 Alex Myers' latest project, WINNING, visually examines the inner logic of the FPS by compressing both temporal and spatial coordinates. Originally developed in 2008, the project has been updated for its upcoming showing at Vector Game + Art Conference in Toronto, Canada. Located in
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Intriguing teaser of Mal's new project, SQUARED, which the artist describes as an integrated 2D and 3D game whose level and game design are explicitly based on Piet Mondrian's works. As Mal writes, "Squared is an invitation to get inside neo-plasticism and create a new
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One of the most interesting Game Art exhibitions of the year is entirely dedicated to football aka soccer. Titled Futbol: The Beautiful Game, the new show at the LACMA (February 2 - July 20, 2014) features a killer list of players, pardon, artists who have explored the aesthetics, politics, and
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By far, one of the most exciting events of early 2014. Taking place at the House of Electronic Arts Basel, Art & Arcade is a new show curated by Alain Bieber featuring "seven artistic arcade-machines from all over the world (Painstation, PentaPong, The Machine, Radical ATM, Tesla Arcade, Cage
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Patrick LeMieux, Art Games, in-game screenshots, 2008-2009 (Images courtesy of the artist). Between 2008 and 2009, artist and scholar Patrick LeMieux developed "[A] series of videogames based on the monochromatic paintings of Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Yves Klein, and Andy Warhol. The games are designed to be
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This is quite intriguing. Just don't call it Flower. This is a remarkably different experience, with a powerful, political subtext. Cuban artist Jairo Gutiérrez took part in the exhibition Cuban Virtualities (2013), curated by Rewell Altunaga and Liz Munsell at The Tufts University Art Gallery at the Shirley
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SPACERACER is a Super 8 game arcade by Florian Olloz, David Pfluger, Gilbert Engelhard aka Mobileskino, a "collaboration of [Swiss] artists, animation-filmmakers, film-technicians and sound designers. The group was formed in 2000, doing several screenings of 8mm-shorts at performance-happenings, media-festivals and in off-spaces". Media archeology, retro-aesthetics, lo-fi, arcade
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Insert Coin - Happiness is a Lightgun, December 2013Insert Coin - Happiness is a Lightgun, December 2013 - trailerInsert Coin - Alien Night, November 2013 Insert Coin - Ninja Edition, October 2013 Think Milan is only about fashion and design? Blast the stereotype away! The real appeal of Milano is
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The Arcade Review is a bi-monthly digital magazine that publishes criticism on experimental games. Made in Canada. Issue one is on sale now and includes juicy stuff, like an essay on Sluggish Morss and Futurism by Zolani Stewart. LINK : The Arcade Review Submitted by Matteo Bittanti via Cameron Kunzelman
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In Molina's new game, Painters Guild, gamers "can make paintings, sell them and develop a guild into the greatest of the Renaissance." The game features an impressive artists line up, featuring Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Caravaggio as well as female artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola and Artemisia
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In November of 2013, Belgian artist and designer Kris Temmerman installed an 8-bit arcade game titled Invasion on his house window, inviting pedestrians to play for free. Temmerman developed a game in which "the world gets invaded by aliens and you have to fight your way to the end