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OPERAcraft is a brilliant project, developed by Ariana Wyatt; Tracy Cowden; Kelly Parkes; Katie Dredger; Ivica Ico Bukvic, Assistant Professor of Music in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, IMPACT Studio Head: "In December 2013, a group of Virginia Tech students along with local K-12
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"Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents. Fearing
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The second release from British publisher Read-Only Memory is a 300 page documentary art retrospective on the Mega Drive console edited by Keith Stuart. The book was developed in collaboration with SEGA and features previously unseen archive material, development artwork, concept sketches as well as original hardware diagrams. The book
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GAME SALON 2 Festival of Author Games November 27 - December 01, Kassel, Hermany Kassel Art Academy Dept. Cartoon Team GAME SALON Menzel 13-15 34121 Kassel LINK : GAME SALON (in German) - documentation (PDF, also in German) Submitted by Matteo Bittanti (Danke, Stephen)
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LINK: Bernard DeKoven Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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Sensible Software 1986–1999 (2013) The wait is over! My most eagerly awaited book of the year, Sensible Software 1986–1999, goes to print today. Created by graphic designer, sculptor, music lover, and art director Darren Wall, the book is part of a new publishing project called Read-Only Memory, a
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Coll.eo, Racing After Richter, 2012 (from The Art of Racing series) Curated by Isabelle Arvers with the assistance of Pierre Corbinais (indie gaming) and Benjamin Fouquoire (retrogaming), GAMES REFLEXIONS is an upcoming exhibition focusing on the interplay between reality and simulation. The main theme is the self-referentiality of ludic
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This looks like a fantastic event: Lee Tusman is curating the exhibition "Limits and Demonstrations: A Lula Chamberlain Retrospective" at Little Berlin Gallery in Philadelphia. It displays the artwork of Lula Chamberlain, a respected and well-known pioneer of new media arts, previously featured in Kentucky Route Zero and
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Jed Henry and Dave Bull re-imagine The Legend of Zelda and Donkey Kong in ukiyo-e style (source, via Hyperallergic) Andrew Webster (The Verge) on Atari 2600 games cover art. Rainer Sigl (Videogame Tourism) talks to Dan Pinchbeck (Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone To The Rapture). Jed Henry and Dave
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A preview of Paul Steen's new project. LOST is a "procedurally generated city made up of buildings abandoned due to different economic shifts. The result of 5 years of photographing abandoned places all over Europe, and learning to use 3d tools." (Steen). Digital ruin porn. This
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A video re-cap of one of the most exciting Game Art festivals in the US. More highlights below: LINK: UCLA Gamelab Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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PLATINE is an annual festival in Cologne focusing on the intersection of digital art and video games, which has its roots in the demoscene. Among the highlights of the 2013 edition are cage was a n00b 3.0 (Tobias Hartmann , Remmy Canedo, Sergei Maingardt) and Signal Loss (Philip Carbotta, Hannes