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Tag: cinema

cinema
For Science!

6 Frame Rate Facts You Didn’t Know

Gamers will vociferously defend the superiority of 60 frames per second over 30. Moviegoers will lament the loss of that cinematic feel when ...
By CJ Miozzi Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2014
Featured Articles

Alfred Hitchcock Would Make Great Games

August 13, 1962: Alfred’s sixty-third birthday. Mr. Hitchcock welcomed a guest to Hollywood that Monday; French filmmaker and critic Francois Truffaut. Truffaut had ...
By Walter Garrett Mitchell Legacy AuthorJuly 13, 2012
You're Wrong

We Are Not Mainstream

People in the industry tend to make us all believe that everybody, including women, young children and the elderly, are rattling their videogame ...
By Ronald Meeus Legacy AuthorAugust 10, 2010
The Way of the Future

Better Than Film

The games industry makes a lot of money, more money than film and music, as is loudly celebrated by the publishing suits. But ...
By Alice Bonasio Legacy AuthorMay 4, 2010
Editor's Choice

The Game Design of Art

“Anything can be art. Even a can of Campbell’s soup.” So admitted Roger Ebert, world-famous movie reviewer and notorious videogame detractor, back in ...
By Jason Rohrer Legacy AuthorJune 24, 2008
The Return of the Genre

Capes, Cops and Cowboys

We’re living in the Age of the Genre. Superhero movies are as thick as maple leaves on the ground after an October thunderstorm. ...
By John Evans Legacy AuthorJune 3, 2008
The Escapist Re-Visited

The Secret of Monkey Island

Guybrush has reached Monkey Island. After wandering for a while in the afternoon heat, he finds a path ascending the side of a ...
By Rob Hearn Legacy AuthorFebruary 19, 2008
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