How The Smithsonian Screwed Up Its Video Game Exhibition

How The Smithsonian Screwed Up Its Video Game Exhibition
NPR (blog)
by Harold Goldberg A large video screen shows a scene from Super Mario Bros. at the exhibition "The Art of Video Games." In 2009, when the Smithsonian began planning an exhibition devoted to video game art, I became kind of ecstatic.

Video games retailer GAME in administration
AFP
LONDON — British video games retailer GAME has collapsed into administration, placing more than 5500 jobs at risk, the group said on Monday, becoming the latest victim of tough economic conditions. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been appointed as ...

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After Troubled Period, Video Games Retailer Game Group Goes Bankrupt In The UK
TechCrunch
It's been on the rocks for months now, but now international video game retailer Game Group looks like it is finally sinking: today the company announced that it is formally entering administration — another sign of the woes hitting more traditional ...

Video game tech adapted for real world driving
TG Daily
Now AT&T Labs and Carnegie Mellon are eyeing advanced video game tech in an effort to improve real world driving experiences. attempting to adapt a haptic feedback steering wheel to deliver turn-by-turn driving directions. The steering wheel would be ...

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The Top Five Worst Sports Video Games of All Time
Yahoo! Sports
Contributor Network 52 minutes ago Sports video games have been a part of my gaming repertoire since time immemorial. During this time I've run across some real epic failures in the sports video game world. Such as PlayStation 2's Arena Football.

Art of Video Games On Display
Discovery News
It's not hard to find "The Art of Video Games" at the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum in downtown Washington, DC For one thing, this exhibit tends to draw a crowd. For another, nowhere else in this museum will you hear the familiar tones ...

Video game review: 'Kid Icarus: Uprising'
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BY DERRIK J. LANG AP After years of heaping attention on Mario, Link, Donkey Kong, Samus Aran and even that fat blob Kirby, Nintendo is finally turning the spotlight back on Pit, the spunky, angelic protagonist who wowed players of the original ...

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UK's main video game shop goes into administration
DigitalJournal.com
Game, once the UK's leading supplier of video games and computer games consuls, has been placed into administration. This will result in many stores closing and a series of job losses. The Daily Telegraph has reported that mainvideo game retailer on ...

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What If The Next Generation Thinks Video Games are Stupid?
Kotaku
Surely an artistic form that has as much weight in popular culture as the video game does now has more to offer than such a narrow view of what it is to be human." No one needs to tell Raymond or Anthropy that all video games aren't war games (or Diner ...

Video games firm in administration
ITV News
Around 5500 employees across the UK who work for the video games retailer 'GAME' face losing their jobs after the Hampshire-based firm went into administration on Monday. The GAME Group employs 385 people at its headquarters in Basingstoke, ...

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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to Manage Codemasters' Video Game ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Interactive Entertainment has entered into an agreement with Codemasters, Ltd. for the distribution, sales and trade marketing of its video game product slate this year in North America and South America. The partnership encompasses Codemasters' 2012 ...

'Assassin's Creed 3': Performance capture "a first in video games"
Digital Spy
Development director Tommy Francois revealed that its method of performance capture, which tracks actors' motion, facial movements and voice over all at once, is a "first in video games". "What we're hoping to get from that is to deliver cutscenes ...

Mistborn Fantasy Series Is Getting A Video Game Prequel
Kotaku
The Mistborn fantasy novel series will hightail its way to the video game realm next fall, helmed by the developer Little Orbit. This will be a prequel to Brandon Sanderson's book series and hit the PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in fall 2013.

Video Games May Always Be A Male-Centric Hobby
PSX Extreme
Those stats typically include anything that can be called a "video game," including apps, Solitaire on the computer, etc. If you hang around your local GameStop for an hour and count up the customers, you'll find that the ratio of men to women is still ...

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New Video Game Release List for the Week of March 26th!
HawtWired (blog)
The video game release highlights for the week of March 26, 2012 on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Playstation Vita, Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, 3DS, and PC/Mac include Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, Ridge Racer Unbounded, Capcom Digital Collection, ...

Opinion: Changing the Video Game Business
Patch.com
By Adam Alexander This week I'm not going to talk about a particular game. I'd like to venture into something a bit more broad and important. I'd like to talk about games which made me marvel at the direction the industry is headed.

Administrators at troubled British video games retailer Game have decided to ...
Irish Times
Administrators announced the closure of 277 stores across Britain and Ireland triggering 2104 job losses. The group employs some 145 people in Northern Ireland and almost 130 in the Republic. PwC said 277 stores in the UK and Ireland are to shut but ...

Irish Times

Game over? 6000 jobs at risk as video game retailer goes into administration
Mirror.co.uk
Almost half the stores run by collapsed retailer Game are to be closed this week, administrators said today. The closures will trigger 2104 job losses at the Game Group, which has 609 stores under the names Game and Gamestation.

Great Moments in Video Game Humor: Fallout Talks to You Like You're Stupid
Kotaku
Since the early days of the RPG, role-playing video games have allowed players to sacrifice intelligence points to further some more important statistic. Fallout is one of the only ones that treats you like the moron you've made.

Smithsonian's “Art of Video Games” Exhibit holds varied meaning for different ...
Video Game Writers
One of the major pieces to the exhibit is a display of 20 different video gameconsoles throughout the years. From the Atari 2600 to the PlayStation 3, each display featured four games that were voted on by fans around the world as the best ...

Video Game Writers

Gwent video game stores at risk as firm goes into administration
South Wales Argus
THE future of five video game stores in Gwent hangs in the balance after their parent company went into administration today. Game Group, which operates the Gamestation and Game chains of stores, operates 609 stores throughout Britain including two ...

Your New RPG Franchise: Brandon Sanderson's 'Mistborn' Novels Coming To ...
MTV.com (blog)
Little Orbit revealed today that they will be bringing bestselling author Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy series Mistborn to games late next year for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from ...

Video game store goes into administration
Dudley News
VIDEO game store, Game and Gamestation, have today gone into administration, with 277 stores closed down with immediate effect. Mike Jervis and Stuart Maddison of PwC have been appointed joint administrators and are currently liaising with a number of ...

Music from Zelda video game series becomes concert symphony
Examiner.com
A Video Game Symphony series, Symphony of the Goddesses took several pieces from the Zelda score and took their popularity to the next level. "I wanted to take the Zelda story and make it like a film score," said Symphony of the Goddessses arranger and ...

Brandon Sanderon's Mistborn series being adapted to video games
Examiner.com
Fans have often remarked that many of these magic systems were developed in a way that would make them easily adaptable to the video game format--and now this looks to be exactly what will happen for at least one of Sanderson's storylines.

The 5 Ballsiest Easter Eggs Hidden in Video Games | Cracked.com
Even if you don't give a shit about video games, you're probably aware that two of the most popular games of the past year were Skyrim and Minecraft, because anyone who plays either of them won't shut up about it. And while these two ...
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How The Smithsonian Screwed Up Its Video Game Exhibition ...
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In 2009, when the Smithsonian began planning an exhibition devoted to video game art, I became kind of ecstatic. I was in the midst of writing a book whose narrative thread included an arc that showed how video games could be artful.
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IndieCity Gamer Challenge: Play Indie Games, Win Prizes | The ...
By Chris Priestman
The Gamer Challenge utilizes those 100 submitted games to get you playing them and winning some prizes for your effort (not like it's much of an effort for a gamer to play a game). Being held over a 12 day stint, the Gamer Challenge opened ...
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Britain's Association of Teachers and Lecturers Attack Parents over ...
By james_fudge
The head of Britain's Association of Teachers and Lecturers thinks parents are doing a crappy job by ignoring game ratings and letting their children play violent video games. They are pulling the proverbial fire alarm, in this BBC report like a ...
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Britain's Association of Teachers rags on video games, gamers and ...
By RawmeatCowboy
I have to explain to adult relatives of mine all the time that "M" is the video game equivalent of an R rating, if you don't think your kid can handle an R rated movie, don't buy them an M rated game. I know it's not a perfect explanation, but adults seem to understand the movie rating system so a simple G=E, ... Bleh, you know Hugh Laurie is British of course, and is a HUGE gamer. Ya think such an association wouldn't say something that might offend a fellow Brit, but they did. =_=; ...
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New Exhibit Celebrates Video Games - PotomacLocal.com
By PotomacLocal.com
Exhibit goers can play games, learn about how and why they were created, and enter a room lined with video game consoles placed behind glass ranging from the first Atari to today's PlayStation III. And there's learning to he had, too. Did you ...
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Video Game Icons Made In Latte Foam - Art - News - GameTyrant
By Jesse Bartel
Yes, you read that title correctly. Someone has mastered the art of making pictures of video game icons on the foamy layer of a latte. I am pretty amazed at the talent of whoever did this, and I can only dream of this happening to me in a coffee ...
GameTyrant

Specially Designed Video Game May Help Young Cancer Patients ...
By Brittany Chan
A new study shows that a video game called Re-Mission may positively influence cancer patientsÕ motivation and ability to learn about their disease. ... Increasingly, we are seeing very useful applications of video games in healthcare. HopeLabs, a nonprofit organization, has developed a game called Re-Mission that seems to have an ... As an active gamer myself, I am excited to see the development of video games for health benefits. Treatment noncompliance and failure to ...
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Disney sketches sequel to 'Epic Mickey' video game - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Warren Spector realizes that he made a mistake with "Epic Mickey," his 2010 action-adventure game starring the world's most famous ...
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'The Art of Video Games' Exhibition Opens - Slashdot
bednarz writes "The Smithsonian's 'Art of Video Games' exhibition opens today. To kick it off, they're holding a three-day festival with panel discussions, live ...
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Gamer Limit Review: Ninja Gaiden 3 | Gamer Limit
Fans have been waiting four years for a true Ninja Gaiden game, but the lack of former Director Itagaki has some people worried. Team Ninja has been going in ...
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