Tag: VIDEO GAMES
“Ken” is on “a quest to transform the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn into a Super Mario World map.” He’s been mapping the L and M trains. He planted a pizza for our beloved Roberta’s. He pixelled in Maria Hernandez Park and The Loom. And now littering the streets with cans of PBR for some reason (Why?) […]
ANIMAL has been hot for Lepos: The Primary Invasion clips since the start, so we talked to the man behind these vintage video game x graffiti mash-ups after he dropped this 6th reel featuring CES and REVOK in the LES. Lepos‘ ten-year writing run ended in 2003, but he still has love for graffiti. So, what does CES think […]
Remember Game Genie? What if, instead of cracking into video games to help you cheat, it turned them into glitched-out pieces of interactive art? That begins to get at the premise behind illucia, a hardware hack from Chris Novello that allows you to get at a game’s guts and screw them around a bit as […]
If you know anything about Minecraft, this stuff takes a long time. This is very impressive. This took two months and makes that KATSU Minecraft stunt even more embarrassing, like whoop-de-whoop man, look at all these undulating black-and-white striped landscapes and shit, and the bit-arty Beetlejuice characters moving around like animatrons. No cut scenes in this capture. Just one meticulous Tim Burton tribute, […]
First things first: Google’s new Chrome World Wide Maze is very buggy, crashes often, and will probably frustrate you a lot. Now that that’s out of the way: Google’s new Chrome World Wide Maze is an incredible, engaging game that makes the internet feel like magic. Head here, follow the instructions for linking your phone […]
And now, please enjoy this new music video for “Bad Motherfuckers” by Biting Elbows, directed by Russian filmmakers Ilya Naishuller and Sergey Valyaev. It’s POV. It’s crazy. Or, you are opposed to super crazy video-game style but IRL-looking violence, throat gutting and various other bang-bang-bang related injuries because you’re not desensitized by video games/your time in the […]
ANIMAL loves F.A.T. artists so much, you know? But here’s F.A.T.’s street artist Katsu braggingabout tagging in Minecraft, all like “The future of graffiti for me will be in the form of black hat tactics” and “MINECRAFT offers me a way to connect with my untainted inner youth and create expressions of criminal activity without the police […]
I’m not much of a games guy, but I would play the absolute shit out of Riot, a forthcoming title that allows you to play as either protesters or police in a global clash of forces. Of course, whenever real-life conflicts with direct impact on many, many human lives are “ripped from the headlines” for our entertainment, there’s […]
An Italian eBay user going by *videogames.museum* has placed his collection of 6,850 video games, 330 consoles, 220 controllers and 185 accessories up for auction. The price? A cool $550,000. While it may not surprise you to learn that Mr. *museum* has accrued exactly zero bids on the lot thus far, let’s see what he’s packing […]
Indie developer Pippin Barr, known for his 8-bit simulation of Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present, has expanded his scope in an ambitious attempt to render the entirety of the New York City visual art world as video game. The biting microcosm Art Game offers you the experience of battling the impenetrable vision of one curator in […]
