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You did vote to get your favorite games into The Art of Video Games exhibit, didn't you? If not, don't crying that Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom didn't make it into the show. Anyway, we're only two short months away from the exhibit's opening of at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian's announced that they're holding a two-day celebration. More »
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Starting in March the Louvre, one of the largest, most visited art museums in the world, plans to replace their audio guides with 5,000 Nintendo 3DS programmed by the game maker to give full tours in seven languages, the AFP reports. More »
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When the Smithsonian American Art Museum opened voting for their upcoming Art of Video Games exhibit earlier this year, the resultant frenzy from gamers wanting to make sure their own personal Best Game EVAR was among the chosen crashed the institute's servers. The winning list of games got revealed back in April and now the Smithsonian's hoping to harness all of that fan-thusiasm to help insert some credit into the TAOVG exhibit. More »
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Some people love Mario. Others love Mickey. But I love Doraemon, that blue robotic cat from the future, with a pocket full of gizmos and a fear of mice. And now, the manga artist who created Doraemon, has his own museum. More »
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum revealed the winners of its public vote to decide what games will be featured in their exhibit, The Art of Video Games, today. The exhibit creates a visual history of the evolution of gaming from its humble beginnings through the present. The vote, which took place between February and April, helped to pick the majority of the exhibit, with only a few iconic selections guaranteed entry. 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 Strong National Museum of Play has officially established The National Center for the History of Electronic Games, celebrating video gaming's role in American playtime. More »
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Infamously infamous first-person shooter Postal 2 will be making an appearance at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, the game's developer's said today. More »
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As the cultural impact of gaming becomes more apparent to societies where the hobby was once considered as something only children and 'older children' participate in, groups are understandably taking steps to help preserve the rich legacy of video game culture. To that end, academics at Nottingham Trent University have moved to form the United Kingdom's First National Videogame Archive in order to preserve not only consoles, games, and code, but a wide range of items from across the industry that represent gaming's impact on the UK. More »
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One corner of the show floor was devoted to a Video Games Museum, made up of playable version of past "game of show" winners. Pretty much every version of the Final Fantasy series (FFVII on) was on display, and I have to say that the guy who was playing through parts of FFX deserves a few devotion points. What, did he really need to re-live one single moment of that 40-hour storyline — one that almost every Japanese gamer has experienced — that one extra time? More »
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In every Japanese museum, there are women who sit in chairs in the corner. Sit and just sit. What they are doing is beyond me. Keeping watch, I guess. On you. And me. Here's something a little easier to grapple with. The National Western Fine Arts Museum in Tokyo is providing visitors with a DS Lite to guide them around. There's a special cartridge that provide details on all the art. Each gallery is outfitted with a special access point that funnels the relevant info to your screen. Browse away via the touch screen. There's even a print function, enabling visitors to select art they like, print it out and collect it before they leave the museum. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Besides being dorky, the worst thing about the guided museum tour headset they pass out is that all you do is listen. Enter the DS Lite. From this November, the handheld will be distributed at a Tokyo art exhibition to help visitors understand art. Each work will be reproduced in the DS thanks to special software. By using the touch pen and listening to the audio track, visitors can gain a deeper appreciation of the piece of art. Carrying that DS around the museum, you'll still feel like a dork, but less of one. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Some people collect cats. Other people collect bottles of their own excretions. Others start hostels in Romania and collect disemboweled backpackers. All these people are crazy. More »
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