Call us huge video game snobs/product design nerds, but every time a new gaming system came out one of the things we were always most excited about was the controller design. After all, it tends to be the most iconic and creative-looking part of the system, and there’s something so seductive in the tactile object, [...]

Today is Video Games Day (not to be confused with National Video Games Day, which is in September), and though we were tempted to take this opportunity to find more disastrous video game-inspired costumes and videos, we opted for a more artful approach. In contemporary art’s never-ending expansionist push to turn every facet and feature [...]

Tetris, the game that gave us bloody blisters and we kept playing, was first released 25 years ago today, and the world’s gamers have been hopelessly addicted ever since. To celebrate, mental_floss looks at some wannabes and homages in their listicle of 10 Variations on Tetris, although we’re a little surprised by the absence of [...]

We never really understood the Pokemon thing, nor did we feel particularly moved to try to wrap our heads around it (although one of our cousins once bought us a Pokemon Game Boy game that was totally awesome, thanks cuz). At any rate, now that that fad is over – or rather, has mutated into [...]

It’s a sad but nearly universal truth that video game cover art tends to be, well, not great. Still, with more and more designers padding out their portfolios by revising classic (and classically mediocre) pop culture artifacts, it’s no wonder that video games are the latest iteration of the cycle
After film-based illustrations and Modernist album [...]

Like any great comic book character, Wolverine (whose origin story movie comes out today) is a costume party favorite. But with so many versions of Wolverine to work from (movies, comics, cartoons, etc.) there’s an incredible variety of costuming results, some of which are not so hot. Unreality chronicles some disasters in their listicle of [...]

Will our kids look back on our favorite digital and electronic pastimes like The Sims and Second Life and think we were crazy? Or, more likely, will they only know us by our immortal pixelized avatars? Either way, we’re fairly confident that none will compare to the wacky games featured in Neatorama’s listicle of The [...]

In our ongoing effort to keep up with all the nifty videos that come our way, we’re devoting this edition of our weekly round-up of moving image art, Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, to a trio of nifty shorts that turn cityscapes into a visual and virtual playing field. We hope you enjoy Listicles’ 3 Beautiful [...]

The days when street art and the iconography of geekdom were completely antithetical are long-gone, and so it comes as no surprise that video games and computer linguistics are spilling over onto city walls. Kontraband tracks this development in urban art with their listicle of 23 Graffiti Works by Geeks, which includes everything from iPods, [...]

Yes, the current fad for 80s nostalgia can get a little tedious, especially when applied to arcane markers of nerd-dom like first-generation video games. That was our initial reaction when we saw Unreality’s listicle of 10 Nintendo Ads from the 80s. Then we saw this incredible ad for WWF Wrestlemania and suddenly everything made sense:

Someone [...]