For those who feel that video games are, in fact, art, the last two months have been important ones. In February, no less an institution than the Smithsonian declared they’d be mounting a crowd-sourced curation experiment for their upcoming “The Art of Video Games.” A dedicated website let people from all over the world choose [...]
Ice Cube’s “Now I Gotta Wet’Cha,” the country song “Hony Tonk Badonkadonk” and the trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World don’t have a lot in common, but there’s one uniting thread among the trio: All three use the meaningless sing-song phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong.” Now, if Nintendo gets its way, this innocuous practice might [...]
Monday, August 9th, 2010
Hold. The. Phone.
