GIF for sale — $5800

What is digital art? What is it worth? Like any art—and like anything else, really—it’s worth what the highest bidder says it is. Jeff Koons knows this; in 2013, his Balloon Dog (Orange) sold at Christie’s for $58.4 million, making it the most expensive...

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Incredible amounts of money invite incredulity. Last week, many media commentators found themselves in disbelief: In a deal worth more than $1 billion, Amazon acquired Twitch—a company and website that many had never heard of. Twitch does one thing very well: It lets...

Here’s how to hate

There’s a hot trend among a vocal minority of gamers right now: the harassment of women developers and critics. Of course, this sort of thing is not new in tech – or, let’s face it, across the internet – but in the video games industry it has hit a fashionable peak....

Facial capture

As the experts in this month’s motion capture special discuss, facial performance is becoming more and more important to high quality characterisation in games. And to convey the best performance, actors need to be untethered from cumbersome technology. While plenty...

Thinking ahead

Microsoft seems to fall farther behind Sony and Nintendo in the eighth generation console race with every passing month. The company has only sold around 5 million Xbox Ones, compared to 6.7 million Wii Us and over 10 million PS4s. Looking ahead, Sony’s...