"They would go on to fill their game world with the zone's rusting fences and collapsing grain silos, but that was not all that came with the material: the landscape and its decaying architecture was already charged with mythology—with narrative. "

Doug Engelbart giving the "mother of all Demos" 1968

"Since the catastrophe of Chernobyl in 1986, she has collected, studied and painted morphologically disturbed insects, which she finds in the fallout areas of Chernobyl as well as near nuclear installations"

"David Cope’s software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that?"

"Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine the possibilities of this free-form display: a swarm of pixels in a space."

"I wanted to imagine whether "CD culture" might also return in the future, and if so, what might drive it and what it might involve."

turns videos into Ascii Art or retroish pixels

You can listen to the underwater sound of the Antarctic Ocean with a delay of a few seconds here.

"3D scanning with a plain webcam"

"Why hasn't anyone harnessed the power of pretending to make work a bit more fun. For the same reason so many games are just a bit, you know, much. It's that inability to be subtle, that desire, shared by games companies and brand-marketing people alike to go too far, to do too much."

"“American History Reinvented” is primarily an arrangement, a reconstruction, of historical events, or, more accurately, a reconstruction of historical situations that we imagine as we do simply because they were handed down to us in a particular way in such testimonies as photographs, or through museum-like installations like the village reconstructions in which Neidich has photographed."

Spy game by a former developer of Spore - a bit inspired by the Turing test

"Well frankly in most rpgs (there are exceptions of course) quests exist in a vacuum. They will sit there forever, nothing can change them and they change nothing either. Your choices don't really matter. There are no consequences to your actions. You can't really fail."

"This is a character postmortem originally produced for internal use following the release of Frictional Games' Penumbra: Black Plague, and adapted here for anyone who cares to read it."

You have to register, though

The Path & Zeno Clash

"In today's world of huge, sharp LCD monitors, it's hard to remember what a videogame image looked like on an ordinary television of the late 1970s. Emulators like Stella make it possible to play Atari games on modern computers, serving the function of archival tool, development platform, and player for these original games. But unfortunately, they also give an inaccurate impression of what Atari games looked like on a television."

"Hiroshi Sugimoto thinks that a good photographer always has to be part scientist. He gives us an exclusive preview of his latest experimental work."

Interesting discussion on NPC's and voice acting

on horror in games (feat. spoilers)

"Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards."

field recordings on google map. It's a pity they don't mix all the sources when you're zooming out ;)

"I had played Stalker countless times since that initial run through, and now I put it on in quiet hours, just to soak up the atmosphere. There’s something evocative and slightly alarming about finding fictional worlds that you want to taste repeatedly"

gameplay videos of Tension/Turgor/The Void

by the devs of Pathologic... new game should be released by Atari in March 09 under the title "The Void"

"There’s now a configurable web app for the semi-transparent vectors evolution approach mentioned earlier. (...) you provide a JPEG URL and then hit the Start button to watch the image mutate and evolve."