The first couple of episodes of Ben Hibon’s animations to accompany PS3 videogame, Heavenly Sword, are here and here. I had to meet this French director after I’d checked out his previous, award-winning, Codehunters, and we talked about this project he was working on. Nice to see it coming to fruition finally. One of his [...]
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Tetris, a documentary with a twist
Missed this when it was initially aired on BBC Four, Tetris, From Russia with Love is an inventive documentary on the machinations and intrigues surrounding one of the world’s most inventive and addictive videogames. [via kottke.org]
Most innovative video game winner 2005
With two young children I have little time to play video games anymore, and this has definitely heightened my demand for quality over quantity in terms of gameplaying. Therefore in my list for Most innovative in video gaming 2005, I was definitely fixating on more evocative, and aesthetically pleasurable experiences, than the flow games I [...]
Most innovative in video gaming 2005
The creators still pushing the videogame out of the comfort zone:
Lumines by Tetsuya Mizuguchi / Q Entertainment
Resident Evil 4 by Shinji Mikami / Capcom
The Movies by Peter Molyneux / Lionhead
Shadow of the Colossus by Fumito Ueda / SCEI
We Love Katamari by Keita Takahashi / Namco
My take on most original after all shortlists.
Hollywood opening eyes to gaming
Technology > Out of Hollywood, Rising Fascination With Video Games” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/10/technology/10GAME.html”>Out of Hollywood, Rising Fascination With Video Games is a New York Times article illustrating both mainstream media and mainstream directors are waking up to the possibilities of engaging with, and crossing between, film and game worlds.
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) [...]
BAFTA Computer Game Award results
The BAFTA interactive festival came to an end last night with their Computer Game awards. No surprises, the big winner of the night (and a victory for open-ended sandbox gaming) was Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, although it was pipped to Best Game of the Year by Call of Duty.
Read full entry for complete winners [...]
.HACK anime/computer game crossover
Atari and Bandai are bringing the cult .hack hybrid series of anime and video games to Western audiences: Global site | Japanese site
The computer game simulates the online gaming experience of a MMORPG, and comes with an exclusive 30m OVA (animation episode) containing clues to help players complete the game. Animation centres around [...]
Escape from Woomera docu-game
Woomera, the most publicised of the Australian detention camps, was closed down in April 2003. But many remain or are being replaced by ‘improved’ security camps. This Half-Life mod is near to public release, and highlights the horrendous conditions of illegal immigrants and camp detainers in the growing documentary game genre.
Escape from Woomera [...]
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