3D ANIMATION
Here's the ultimate total conversion. Graphic designer David Ledgerwood took Counter Strike: Global Offensive and turned it into a digital pinball game by using (virtual) water melons. How? I have turned [Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Ed.] into a physics based pinball arcade mini-game using melons as the ball. "
GAME
The upcoming racing game GT Sport for the Playstation 4 includes a powerful in-game photography tool, Scapes. As I wrote elsewhere, gamers don't play this kind of games to sublimate their death drive, but rather too take pictures. The good news is that Scapes looks like the Canon
ART GAME
Games about painting are becoming the trend du jour. Consider, for example Palette Parade, where you get to meet Gustave Courbet, Vincent van Gogh, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, among others or the indie game Passepartout: The Starving Artist. Brian Cullen's "You Are Not A Banana: A walkthrough of
EVENT
Press release:"6 th July. Nottingham, UK . The National Videogame Foundation is proud to announce a unique original exhibition, opening this September at the National Videogame Arcade in Nottingham.Football Manager: The Beautiful Exhibition is a new, dedicated room which will celebrate and explore the history and future of
ART GAME
Curated by skot deeming and Martin Zeilinger Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing digital games and creative media practices. Presenting works across a dynamic range of exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, and workshops, Vector acts as a critical bridge between emergent digital platforms and new media
ARCADE
Oliver Payne, 2017. Photo: Curtis BuchananCONTINUE? The Philosophy of Japanese Arcade Culture Wednesday May 31, 2017 7:30PM Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Free entry and open to the public Parking: Under the museum, $6 flat rate after 6 p.m. Cash only. "Having recently collaborated with Japanese Pop art
ART GAME
From Benjamin Poynter comes a video game inspired by the theories of Canadian media guru Marshall McLuhan . As Poynter writes: Fusing the serious genre, hi-tech surrealism, and fundamental game design, this new game title tells a story of paranoia. The player will come to feel what it means to be
DOCUMENTARY
"Professional gamers Melek Balgün and Trinity invite artists, scientists and enthusiastic gamers in each episode of ART OF GAMING to play and discuss computer games. Which emotions do computer games provoke? What is special about games compared to other art forms? What do we feel when we play?
GAME
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 artworld. Our goal is to document and discuss both the origins and evolution of a phenomenon that
ARCADE
In 1978, experimental director Craig Baldwin (b. 1952 in Oakland, California) made a 16mm film deconstructing the ideology of cowboy masculinity, cultural imperialism, and capitalism. Finally available on YouTube, his 20-minute video collage includes images and sounds culled from various sources, including commercial, TV series and news, films, cartoons, and