Role of short film

The emergence of digital both as a technology and a culture has fundamentally changed the world in which short film now exists. Now short film has public, industry and social value and its role and routes have fundamentally changed. Short film is one of the most...

Minecraft goes Seattle

Microsoft will acquire the maker of the popular game Minecraft for $2.5 billion. The technology company said it will buy Stockholm-based game maker Mojang. Minecraft, which lets users build in and explore a virtual world, has been downloaded 100 million times on PC...

Software sales fall

More than nine months after the release of new generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony, video game software sales continue to slide steeper as new titles remain few and far between. According to the latest report from market researcher NPD Group, August software...

Hands still draw

This is a problem that has persisted for years; over a decade even, and has been regurgitated so often that it is now considered fact. Yes, it is the concept that 2-D animation (read: traditional, hand-drawn animation) is ‘dying’. Why use the word...

Feminist games

f you’re a fan of video games and a feminist, it’s been a rough few weeks. With a deluge of abusive threats and harassment directed at high-profile women in the gaming community, the rise of #GamerGate, and the reflexive refusal by some gamers to cede that, yeah,...