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Pulitzer Prize winning author says GTA IV ain't art

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2008-07-01 00:00:00 by Kevin Kelly in Joystiq
...Pulitzer Prize winning authors were taking their hard-earned awards and combining it with writing skill to... play Grand Theft Auto IV ? It's not like they can be accused of slacking, having won a Pulitzer and all. Junot Diaz who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao spent some quality time ripping...
 
 
 
 
 
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Washington Posts Former Video Game Reporter Wins Pulitzer for V-Tech Coverage

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2008-04-15 13:49:43 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...Pulitzer Prize for its coverage oflast yearsVirginia Tech massacre As reported by the Mountain View Voice ,Vargas used Facebook to locate a witness to the shootings on the V-Tech campus. Of the award, Vargas said I won this as part of a team, thats important. I didnt cure cancer I owe my Pulitzer to Facebook reporting Ive covered everything...
 
 
 
 
 
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GTA IV aint the revolution, says Pulitzer prize winner

2008-07-01 12:48:20 by patlike in videogaming247
 
Speaking on the Wall Street Journals site, Pulitzer Prize fiction winner Junot Díaz has said that while GTA IV is art, in his opinion, it doesnt live up to the reviews. I love GTA IV and I have no doubt that it is art, but an equal to The Sopranos or The Godfather? Narrative art of
 
 
 
 
 
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GameSetLinks: Visualizing Atari 2600 Games, Helix-Style

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2008-05-06 00:00:01 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Pulitzer Prize novels, and some really stupidly rare Nintendo cartridges, with prices only in the low five figures. Is the game cart market ever gonna reach the dizzy heights of the modern art market, I wonder Large sea creatures in formaldehyde Some Thoughts on Meaning and Games at Game Design Advance Games, then, are not like war. War is a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Wright To Go KRAZY!, Kurate Game Space In New Exhibition

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2008-03-05 16:00:32 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Pulitzer prize-winning Maus; George Herrimans last three drawings for Krazy Kat; Lotte Reinigers 1927 The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the first feature-length animated cartoon; a sneak preview of Will Wrights groundbreaking video game Spore; and an extraordinary selection of drawings from Yuichi Yokoyamas latest manga, New Engineering The...
 
 
 
 
 
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An Evening Of A Thousand Scowls

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2008-03-28 17:39:56 by John Walker in Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Making False Idols For 2008
...Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Dave Eggers, that offers free one-to-one tuition for high school students and programmes to allow young people to get excited about writing. Its a truly wonderful thing, popping up all over America (and soon in N Ireland), completely hilarious, and should be supported by everyone ever. With this tenuous...
 
 
 
 
 
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GTA IV = Scarface, The Godfather? WSJ Says No.

2008-07-01 23:14:42 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
Pulitzer Prize for fiction recipient Junot Díaz writes for the Wall Street Journal that Grand Theft Auto IV may be a damn fine game, may even be art, but it isnt the achievement that some in the media have made it out to be, lacking the emotional gravitas that cinematic masterpieces or hard-hitting television series such as The Godfather or The...
 
 
 
 
 
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Today in Joystiq: July 1, 2008

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2008-07-01 00:00:00 by Ross Miller in Joystiq
...Pulitzer Prize winning author says GTA IV ain't art No pants: one in five Canadian men have gamed in the nude Wishful tinkering: Redesigning the 360 Dashboard Ohio library now loaning video games Permalink | Email this | Comments
 
 
 
 
 
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Become a Mechanic Master with your DS

2008-07-11 22:59:02 by Luke Walker in That VideoGame Blog
 
...Pulitzer Prize winning American political cartoonist, Rube Goldberg, these machines are now going to be the central focus of the new Nintendo DS puzzler Mechanic Master . In Mechanic Master youll have to use all your whits and your stylus to draw, move, place and teleport objects in order to solve 100 levels of puzzling genius. You will also...
 
 
 
 
 
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GameSetLinks: The Patton Of Worldcraft

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