SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 23 records
 
Expand article

Pulitzer Prize winning author says GTA IV ain't art

The Article has images
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...
 
Tags: pulitzer, quality time, author, junot diaz, art, oscar wao, gta, wondrous life, worthy
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Washington Posts Former Video Game Reporter Wins Pulitzer for V-Tech Coverage

The Article has images
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...
 
Tags: jose antonio vargas, jose, washington, vargas, pulitzer, wapo team, washington post, national presidential campaigns, video game culture
 
 
 
 
Expand article

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
 
Tags: gta, art, narrative art, love gta, pulitzer, doubt, reviews, opinion, godfather
 
 
 
 
Expand article

GameSetLinks: Visualizing Atari 2600 Games, Helix-Style

The Article has images
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...
 
Tags: game, game makers, game design advance, video game metaphors, game cart market, games, bad game, street fighter references, game code
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Wright To Go KRAZY!, Kurate Game Space In New Exhibition

The Article has images
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...
 
Tags: exhibition, krazy, gallery, exhibition takes viewers, krazy kat, gallery environments, exhibition krazy, exhibition comprises, gallery space
 
 
 
 
Expand article

An Evening Of A Thousand Scowls

The Article has images
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...
 
Tags: jonathan coulton, author dave eggers, co-wrote portals song, davy rothbart, ian edwards, patton oswalt, san francisco, tig notaro, blatant misuse
 
 
 
 
Expand article

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...
 
Tags: gta, gta franchise, love gta, avid gta, san andreas, gta series, san andreas leads, grand theft auto, game
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Today in Joystiq: July 1, 2008

The Article has images
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
 
Tags: human, human previews hit, june 24-july, wii, feature wii-ds connectivity, simultaneous 360pc releases, footage hits youtube, revisit diablo, nis america partner
 
 
 
 
Expand article

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...
 
Tags: mechanic master, puzzler mechanic master, machines, crazy machines, rube goldberg, rube goldberg machine, american political cartoonist, marble, mind cripplingly hard
 
 
 
 
Expand article

GameSetLinks: The Patton Of Worldcraft

The Article has images