Animated news

The BBC should use animated sequences in news reports in order to reach younger viewers in a rapidly changing digital landscape, a corporation report has recommended. The Future of News report says the corporation must reinvent the way it presents reports to keep...

Dream working

Reaction to the Jan. 22 reveal that DreamWorks Animation would undergo a massive restructuring — including a smaller film slate, 500 layoffs, $290 million in pretax charges and the departure of its vice chairman, chief marketing officer and COO — was practically...

Feminist games

Feminist Frequency, the non-for-profit organization run by Anita Sarkeesian, known for its popular and controversial video game series, Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, announced it has plans to create two new video series, one focused on, “the representation of men...

World’s biggest gif

So where is art headed in the digital age? Can we see the future yet? We must be experiencing the fastest rate of technological change in human history. The industrial revolution was a meandering process compared with today’s acceleration. And because communication is...

Addicted to games

Run around. Battle. Attack, attack, attack, run around, battle, run, battle, run, battle, repeat, repeat, repeat. Repetition is the obvious way to describe much of my own early days of playing through the Pokémon and Final Fantasy series. I poured hours of my life...