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Miguel Concepcion recently posted a healthy reminder that gamers CAN be bibliophiles—especially where books about video games are concerned. Behold, the 25 Best Video Game Coffee Table Books. More »
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A Slow Year, the anthology of "video game poems" Dr. Ian Bogost wrote for the Atari 2600, has published a special edition befitting a work of art. The box is hand-crafted and bound in red leather, with foil-stamped gold lettering. The set sells for $500 and only 20 are available, but admiring it is free. More »
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Can it be that time of year again? So soon? Yes, it seems it is. Time for Japanese game store Meteor to hold their annual "Famicase" exhibition, featuring imaginary Nintendo game cartridges. More »
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Are game developers creating games, or are they creating art? In the case of the ten creators showcased in flavorwire's "10 Artists Who Use Video Games as Their Medium" I suspect it might be a little bit of both. More »
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Which video games deserve to be honored for their art? Heavy Rain or Final Fantasy? Grim Fandango or Fallout? In the Smithsonian's upcoming "The Art of Video Games" exhibition, gamers decide which titles make the cut. More »
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While the argument over video games as art rages on, there can be no denying that games have influenced art, as evidenced by the WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon at the Laguna Art Museum in California. More »
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The London Review of Books! John Lanchester questions whether the medium is "art" for the literary publication, now three decades old, and comes away conflicted, if positive about the present and future of games. More »
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Respected film critic Roger Ebert may still be on the wrong side of the games-as-art debate, but he's slowly coming around, conceding that games are getting better, though he'd rather be knitting. More »
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Compared to a lot of esoteric ruminations on game design, Ernest Adams' little essay on 'the dao of game design' is remarkably grounded and to the point. The question of how to make a game that players — not just the designer — would want to play is an obvious one; perhaps more obvious is the fact that a designer needs to know what they're trying to convey (though, considering the muddled end products we're sometimes presented with, perhaps some designers don't pay enough attention to the 'message'): More »
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There are really two faces to E3. One of them is that of a business summit, intended to connect the video game industry with the press as a way of showing their wares to the public. The other looks at game developers as artists, presenting the fruit of their ideas and labors often for the first time. More »
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I don't always agree with Ian Bogost, but I almost always enjoy reading what he has to say. Sexy Videogameland brought up Ian Bogost's address at the Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo earlier this month. He spends most of it talking about poetry - since people love to cry 'How is this relevant to my life?' - and ties it into the game industry. You're probably going 'What in the hell does Archilochus have to do with video games?'. I'd suggest you just read the address: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=313216&view=rss&microfeed=true Into the Pixel is an exhibit featuring 16 works of game-related art, and Gamasutra has a discussion with three of the sixteen up Ryan Stevenson (Rare Ltd.), Mike McCarthy (Lionhead Studios), and Cheol Joo Lee (Relic Entertainment) are all concept artists, and who each bring a unique take on their media to the table. The topic of the discussion is (of course) video game art, the process of creation, and video games-as-art. Unsurprisingly, there are several different takes on that currently popular question: More »
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Outspoken movie critic and author Roger Ebert came under fire from the gaming community a while back with his statement that he does not consider video games to be art. Since then the topic has been hotly debated and written about on just about any game related publication and website you can think of. More »
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The kids over at the Weekly Geek have put together an interesting little piece about games as art. We all know that games are art no matter what Roger Ebert has to say about. (What the hell does he know from art, anyway? He made Beyond the Valley of the Dolls for corn's sake.) More »
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Over at Game Set Watch, we see news that NPR has decided to officially sanctioned the random mumblings of three gaming mouthbreathers into a cheap microphone and released via RSS and MP3. A podcast, in other words. At least you won't have to listen to Xeni Jardin's shrill, nightmarish wail, though: More »
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Seattle-based movie critic and editor of RogerEbert.com Jim Emerson dropped me a line over the weekend in response to my rantish blurb about the video games as art "debate" he took part in with Roget Ebert last week in Boulder. More »
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GameDaily has a feature that points to High Voltage's Lead Designer David Rodriguez' column in Buzzscope where Rodriguez suggests that cinematics are ruining video games. Like a bunch of gamers, Rodriguez is tired of running from one well-orchestrated cut scene to another and misses actually "playing" video games. From the piece: "We're supposed to be making games, and instead we are making ridiculous, half-assed movies." First Kojima says games aren't art, now another dev says cinematics are ruining video games - is it opposite day here at Kotaku? More »
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Next Generation has some info from the Feb. 2006 issue of the Official U.S. PlayStation interview with Hideo Kojima. The innovative Kojima, whose Metal Gear games sometimes feel like playable movies, said he, too, doesn't feel like video games are art. His reasoning? Check the jump. More »
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