TAG: videogames
The Ten Video Games That Should Be Movies (and the Directors Who Should Make Them)
Duck Hunt by Wes Anderson and Second Life by David Lynch may be my two favorites.
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Twin Musical Tesla Coils playing Mario Bros
"Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI."
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When Reality Feels Like Playing a Game, a New Era Has Begun
"We use game models to motivate ourselves, to answer questions, to find creative solutions. For many, life itself has turned into a game."
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My friends Kim and Adam are getting married, and in perfect geek fashion their wedding toppers are their Miis.
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Nintendo's Wii, Radiating Fun, Is Eclipsing Sony Machine
"There are growing signs that Nintendo’s Wii, which gets couch potatoes off the couch, has taken the lead over Sony’s PlayStation 3."
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Burger King Sells 2 Million Game Copies in 4 Weeks
"Burger King 'announced that its trio of games for the Xbox and Xbox 360 had broken the 2 million mark in just four weeks'"
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"In an age of microscopic technologies and sweeping Google-earth panoramas, Will Wright, the world's most successful video-game inventor, has set out to create game (or is it the art form?) that will teach us how to really see."
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"Markets today are so bigâ€â€the global video-game market is now close to thirty billion dollarsâ€â€that companies can profit even when they’re not on top, as long as they aren’t desperately trying to get there."
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"If a critic can get people to realize that the everyday architectural world of garages and malls and bad haunted house novels is worthy of architectural analysis . . . then maybe the trade journals can get some of their subscribers back."
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Reactionary Second Lifers block technological progress
"Congrats, residents of Second Life, in your own high-tech bleeding-edge way you’ve just proven yourself as reactionary as the RIAA or MPAA."
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Videogames as the Future of Everything: Spare Me
"Studying videogames in a larger context is useful for UI/man-machine interaction, for immersive entertainment, and for non-linear storytelling. Not much else."
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"Are industries based upon rapid fire information inherantly less stable than ones based on selling material goods?"
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"Playing a game with frequent save points is kind of like being the child of a billionaire: You can soar through life without worrying about financial problems because if you fail, there's a "restore" point waiting for you."
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Up next: 'YouTube' of video games?
Microsoft releases tools to encourage home creators of games for Xbox 360 console.
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Saving the World, One Video Game at a Time
Using video games to help people udnerstand complex topics.
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Making Virtual Football More Like the Real Thing
"Multiplayer gaming once meant a bunch of lone-wolf players each trying to do in the others. These days . . . gamers are discovering the camaraderie and esprit de corps that have long been the province of soldiers and athletes."
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Barbie? Who's Barbie? Young girls are playing electronic house with The Sims, and the game lets them tell their own stories.
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Nintendo's answer to the console wars: Be unique.
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"A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice."
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Ill-structured process, clear outcome
"I wonder if we couldn't extend that value of learning slightly if we didn't equate it so strongly with structure. I think we can achieve intended outcomes, even if the learning isn't structured or sequenced in a particular manner."
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Tiny Ohio town freaked out by Mario prank
Some teenagers made giant power-up icons out of boxes and the town thought they had been attacked by terroritsts . . .
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Will Wright: "In an era of structured education and standardized testing, this generational difference might not yet be evident. But the gamers' mindset - the fact that they are learning in a totally new way - means they'll treat the world as a place for creation . ."
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Mike Tyson's Punchout Live [Video]
An orchestra and actors perform Mike Tyson's Punchout live in front of your eyes.
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Steven Johnson explains why too many books -- and not enough gaming -- rots your brain.
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"Download Gametap and play hundreds of the greatest arcade, console and PC games of all time."
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Revolution Controller, Revolutionary
"Imagine it as a virtual light saber that you wiggle, turn, jab, etc... And you can pick two up in akimbo for some two-handed action."
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"We voted, we sorted, we yelled, we cried, we took a little nap and eventually this is the list we came up with -- our Top 100 Games of All-Time, at least for this year."
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Hillary vs. the Xbox: Game over
Senator, would your probe of video games also take a look at the substantial benefits they can provide?
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"How do you turn a middle-aged, bookish writer who loathes computer games and violence into a gun-toting, head-stamping street punk? Simple - deliver a stack of the latest consoles to his front door."
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"These are online games that, in my opinion, offer a "good experience" - good game design with an overall attention to quality. Unless otherwise noted, they're all free, online, and available right now."
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A backup of the Pacman widget on MacUpdate
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The Man Who Keeps Nintendo Cool
Wired interview with Shigeru Miyamoto the man behind Mario and pretty much every other important Nintendo game.
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Playing Dumb with Videogame Clerks
"We sent our spy, posing as a clueless girlfriend shopping for her gamer beau, on a quest for flimflam advice at four major game retailers."
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WOCKA WOCKA WOCKA: Pac-Man turns 25
Technology Review: "From the early 1980s "Pac-Mania" to today's endless sequels and rip-offs, the original master of maze management remains a bright yellow circle on the cultural radar."
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Ten interesting ideas in videogame design
Gamesblog: "So here’s the entire article, which looks into a few interesting ideas buzzing around the industry at the moment – ideas that promise to take gaming in intriguing new directions."
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Wired: "By focusing the book on setting up that straw man and knocking it down, Johnson largely misses the point of the more valid critique of today's pop culture."
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "If you were a warp tube, I'd be in you all day."
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There's real money to be made selling unreal stuff, such as digital weapons and land, to online gamers. It's a controversial market.
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Is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up?
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"Enjoy a classic game of Minesweeper instantly available in your Dashboard. The interface emulates the timeless Windows minesweeper game."
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Sony opens game goods marketplace
Game giant Sony is opening its own market where players will be able to buy and sell virtual goods.
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Over 400 playable flash Nintendo games . . . also a flash version of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Army Sets Up Video-Game Studio
The U.S. Army, riding the success of its action video game America's Army, has set up a video-game studio with industry veterans to write other kinds of software to simulate training for a variety of armed forces and government projects.
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PSP, I Love You: For Gamers, The Date Has Finally Arrived
Washington Post: ""What portable gaming does is take video games to the public in the same way that the cell phone took communication out of the homes and into the street . . ."
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A pretty cool viral site for the new EA sports Fifa Street game
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Essential Facts about the Computer and Video Game Industry (PDF)
From the Electronic Software Association
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What Are Video Games Turning Us Into?
What are the long terms effects of videogame usage? Will it create a future workforce happy to sit in front of their computers?
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EA in exclusive NFL games deal
Electronic Arts, the world's biggest video games firm, has signed exclusive agreements with the National Football League and the NFL players' union.
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'Halo 2' clears record $125 million in first day
Microsoft beat even its own heady expectations for the hotly anticipated Xbox game "Halo 2," selling more than $125 million of the product its first day in stores.
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