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On one level, the video below shows a bug in the latest version of SimCity, released last March among much controversy. At the same time, this glitch is instant art. This creepy multiplications of garbage trucks reminds me of the horrors of Kaufman's Invasions of the Body Snatchers
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Full program now available. Expect a "cacophonous, carnivallike atmosphere"! "The UCLA Game Lab in collaboration with the Hammer Student Association (HSA) presents an evening of innovative gaming curated by Game Lab director and associate professor of Design Media Arts Eddo Stern. With games ranging from the
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The event is free and open to the public and you can RSVP here. Killer line-up, as always. "The NYU Game Center is happy to announce the premiere of four new games from Bennett Foddy, Sophie Houlden, Matthew LoPresti, Nik Mikros, and Josh DeBonis at the fourth annual No
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Skins is an ambitious game project developed by Jason Lewis' obx Studios, which has been documented through a series of articles and essays. The computer game can be downloaded from this URL but the project has transmedia ambitions as it includes, among other things, a series of machinima. As
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Bonus Life: Extended Play is an upcoming documentary on game culture by Michael Sroka. "Filming in Wales, England, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, the US, and Cuba interviewing video game competitors, both professionals, and casual players; video game developers of both hardware and software; and video game journalists and critics,
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Can somebody please fully develop this game, Yuppie Paradise? Till Nagel's students Florian Kohne, Hans-Peter Kadel, Hannes Hoepfner, and Ferdi Hansen began working on the project in 2009 while completing their degree at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany. The goal? "Players take on the role
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Banopticon (or Banoptikon) is an online single-player 3D computer game developed by the media arts collective Personal Cinema addressing the issue of immigration to and within the European Union. Under development since January of 2010, the game will be released at the end of April 2013. Personal Cinema collective includes
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Brighton-based Ithaca Audio took a " look back at 35 years of video game music (Space Invaders, released in 1978 was the first game to have a continuous soundtrack), picked some of our favourites and mashed them with other tracks we love." (Ithaca) Check out also the previous mash
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In 2010, Turbulence.org commissioned Scott Kildall a project entitled Playing Duchamp, "A computer program to play chess as if it were Marcel Duchamp". Kildall has now shared a video the project, which was originally distribuited online. As he writes, " There is no physical component, though I
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"As the economical crisis advances, the discontent of an entire population cannot help but outburst in Riots, where the sounds of many voices get heard at once. The Director Leonard Menchiari has been experiencing this form of protest in person, and the game "Riot" was born as
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"Twofivesix. A Videogame Arts and Culture Festival is a one-day celebration of play as culture, placing game designers into conversation with other digital creatives." (KillScreen) Full details here. This one day conference in Brooklyin, New York is definitely more corporate (Facebook... ouch, Foursquare... double ouch), industry-driven, and institutionally
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Arcades are dead therefore they are cool again. In fact, all dead media are alive and kicking, in a zombie-like state. As Mashall McLuhan suggests, we live in the age of perpetual/pervasive revivals. Take the First Friday's Artcade initiative which resuscitated 30 arcade cabinets for a massive