July 11, 2011
Sleep No More is an “immersion theatre” event in which audiences are free to roam, explore, and investigate -- almost nothing is off-limits -- a vast space that includes 100 rooms spread over 6 floors of a transformed abandoned warehouse in Chelsea, NYC. It's a 'live theater and real-time non-linear multiplayer horror-adventure game.'
July 7, 2011
IT8BIT is retro game art and stuff.
June 27, 2011
The act forbidding sale or rental of violent games to minors does not comport with the 1st Amendment.
The Supreme Court has ruled (pdf) that video games are protected under the First Amendment in the same way as art or literature. [more inside]
June 24, 2011
Proun is a thing of beauty. Six years in the making, it's just been released for PC, on a pay-what-you want model (including free), and includes online leaderboards and all sorts of good stuff, regardless of whether you pay for it or not. But you should pay for it: it's pretty great.
June 20, 2011
Grounded in the conventions of early 20th century commercial illustration, the look of Team Fortress 2 is the result of tight collaboration between artists and engineers. Illustrative Rendering in Team Fortress 2: the paper (pdf), the slides (pdf), the video.
May 10, 2011
New US National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) rules put out this week allow US government funding of video games for the first time. It's now official. Video games can be art.
April 23, 2011
April 9, 2011
Valve's Portal tie-in comic debuts at IGN. See also: interview with Mike Oeming, one of the creators.
March 29, 2011
JEFF KOONS MUST DIE!!! Those are some mickeymouse rocket launchers, though. [via]
March 25, 2011
Curating the Smithsonian's Art of Video Games exhibit, which gathered votes from Real Actual Gamers to decide which games to include.
February 22, 2011
PC Gamer commissioned artist Drew Northcott to do mashups of video games and the works of artists like Van Gogh and Dali for use on their back page starting in 2007. They have been posted online for your enjoyment.
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