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FreePixel looks at video games as part of the moving image culture. Games are not movies. But games use moving image tradition in their presentation. That is why FreePixel offers a critical look at games and their expressive qualities that grow from the use of the moving image.

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[Archive for February, 2009]

Trendy dollars

Posted by Michael

It is not a completely new phenomenon: the way that TV commercials pick up game “looks” to sell stuff. Whether it is Coca Cola or the pre-Superbowl ad for Two and a Half Men done in Second Life or the original Game On that won even a Mackie award.
However, it is intriguing to see how [...]

Michael is too modest but..

Posted by Erik

..here is an interview with Henry Jenkins of MIT discussing Michael Nitsche’s research and recent book, Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds (MIT Press, 2008), “which sums up what we can learn about games by examining them as spatial systems”.
The “part 1″ label for the interview (and the interview itself is [...]