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"Beginning with Space Invaders in 1978, arcade games began to appear everywhere.In 1982, 13,000 dedicated arcade locations existed across North America, generating $3.2 billion dollars in 1983 alone, the hard way: one quarter at a time. By 1985, revenue had fallen 97%. Atari declared bankruptcy. Arcades
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PLAYERS is one of the best Italian game magazines available period. It is my personal favorite because it's 100% independent, it is written by people who truly love visual culture in general and video games in particular. To celebrate its second anniversary, PLAYERS has just released a special
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Another brilliant game installation from Parisian artists Dekalko & DJEFF's, Mine Vectrex Storm. This detournement of the Vectrex by MB is "an enhanced version of the game" that shipped with the console. LINK: DJEFF & DeKalko Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Images from Dekalko & DJEFF "Video pong" is an enhanced version of the famous arcade game PONG. This facility allows a comparison between video and video games. This is to test the playability of a game engine as narration. In the context of interactivity associated with the emergence
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Pentapong at Studio 13/16 - Pompidou Center ↑ Pentapong at Museum für Kommunikation "Pentapong" is a reinterpretation of the famous game PONG. This new version has been developed with Michael Davidov (Research Workshop Interactive Ensad). This project explores the concept of multi-player based on the architecture of the
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"What is games research? Can video games change the world we live in? The MIT Game Lab brings together scholars, creators, and technologists to teach, conduct research, and develop new approaches for applied game design and development. Games are a thriving field, communication medium, and industry. To explore the
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GameScenes is conducting a series of interviews with artists, critics, curators, and gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art, as part of an ongoing investigation of the social history of this fascinating artworld. Our goal is to illustrate the genesis and evolution of a phenomenon that changed the
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Games by the Book: An ExhibitCurated by Clara Fernández-Vara & Nick Montfort MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Ave. Building N51 Cambridge, MA 02139 "People can't get enough of stories--we're always seeking to re-experience them, in different forms and versions. Myths have been transformed and rehashed between
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Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy, has produced a 3D room installation featured Pac-Man for the recent Babycastles Summit at the Museum of Art and Design. As Kotaku explains, "3D Pacman was created by Dr. Clement Shimizu for Keita Takahashi's Babycastles Summit. Immersive 3D projection system created
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VIGAMUS, the Video Game Museum of Rome, is set to make its official debut on October 20th, 2012. Supported by the civic authority of Roma Capitale and located downtown Rome, VIGAMUS is Italy’s first museum entirely dedicated to video games. With an emphasis on videogame history and culture, VIGAMUS
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"Lisa Ma is interested in the fringes of society. From the ladies who are mad about cats to the communities campaigning to stop the extension of Heathrow Airport. Lisa is a designer and her role is to create platforms of engagement with these groups which are otherwise ignored by
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Julian Opie, Imagine you are walking, 1998, silkscreen print on paper As John Carmack dreams of virtual reality in 2012, it is clear that we are perpetually stuck in the 1990s. Aesthetically, ludically, ideologically. Like or not, DOOM and Julian Opie are the "New Aesthetic". "In summary: