David Wise on Making the Music for Nintendo´s Golden Age
“We were pioneers at the time,” says David Wise, casting his mind back to the exuberant Nintendo video game era of the late ’80s and early ’90s. — November 10, 2017 “We always tried to stretch the boundaries, whether it was graphics or gameplay. [Those games] made a lasting impression.” Over a career that has spanned four decades to date, Wise has established
Continue ReadingXbox’s Newest Hit, Sounds Like It Was Made in the 1930s
Video games didn’t exist in the 1930s, but the forthcoming game Cuphead asks the anachronistic question: What if they did? What would a video game from the 1930s sound like? — October 23, 2017 Cuphead is a side-scrolling shooter that looks like a Max Fleischer cartoon but plays like Super Nintendo. A game this crazy deserves a soundtrack that’s equally
Continue ReadingAstronauts Could Use Video Games to Combat Isolation in Space
No one knows for sure what a long-range space journey will be like for the people on board. However, some researchers have casually suggested, because astronauts would have a lot of free time to fill, sending along a selection of books and films or even bespoke video games. — October 19, 2017 The social scientists who study media use and its effects on
Continue Reading‘Blood, Sweat, And Pixels’
Read the fascinating review of ‘Blood, Sweat, and Pixels’ a book about the triumphant, turbulent stories behind how Video Games are made as told by Jason Schreier (editor at Kotaku). — October 17, 2017 Success is dull; failure is fascinating. Stories of marvelous achievement may earn our admiration, but they tend to follow the same trajectory, hitting all the same pious
Continue ReadingReimagining Realism in Video Games & Movies
Hideo Kojima, the Japanese video game designer, screenwriter, director, and producer talks about realism in the Video Game and Movie industry. — October 15, 2017 Apes learn to speak, gain human intelligence and rise in arms against humanity. It’s an absurd premise made even more ridiculous by the fact that the militant apes in War of the Planet of the
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