Chilean Miner Rescue Game: Too soon?
Posted by Anupa in Internet, video games on 14. Oct, 2010 | 0 Comments
While you’re sitting there, suppressing jokes after some traumatic news event, being all sensitive and shit thinking “too soon?”, someone out there on the global interweb is being all “bunk that” and coming up with hilarious memes to pick up your slack and entertain us all. Yesterday, we had hipster cat’s commentary on the miners. [...]
Music videos in 2010: a small case study
Posted by Anupa in Internet, Music, video games on 02. Sep, 2010 | 2 Comments
Screencap from Das Racist’s Who’s That Brown? via Village Voice Back in the day, music video debuts on channels like Much Music or MTV were a big fucking deal. But then Youtube (and OnSmash) came along and that changed everything—but still, the music video didn’t die. In the past couple of years we’ve been exposed [...]
When movies and television learn to level-up
Posted by Jef in Film, video games on 13. Aug, 2010 | 2 Comments
One of the things that interests me about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (which goes into wide release today) is the film’s heavy video game influence. There are the obvious visual cues — bad guys discorporating into coins, characters snatching 1UP power icons — but also the subtler, more meaningful ones, like how Scott’s video [...]
Video Games > School
Posted by Simon in video games on 16. Jun, 2010 | 5 Comments
IN THE YEAR TWO THOUUUUUSAAAAANNNNDDDD….. IN THE YEAR TWO THOOUUUUSSAAAAAANNNNDDDDDDDD!!!! You will no longer drop your children off at piano lessons or swimming class. Instead, you will sit them down in front of the piano, or throw them into a simulated swimming game, and it will teach them all they need to learn using a [...]
Mortal Kombat Rebirth
Posted by Simon in Film, Internet, video games on 08. Jun, 2010 | 3 Comments
I’ve watched this video four times already and I’m still not quite sure what to make of it. The seven minute live-action short materialized on YouTube today, posted by the account MortalKombatRebirth. Kotaku picked up on it and nobody is sure if it’s a game or a movie or what is going on. For starters, [...]
