I got my hands on some radical new gaming interfaces today and I have this to say: if you’re still using a wired game controller to play games, you are a dinosaur.
Author Archives: Frank Shyong
Gamers Galaxy: “Super Mario Galaxy”
We play video games for a lot of reasons now ““ to compete, to make friends, or maybe just to experience a story. However, games like “Super Mario Galaxy” remind us why we began playing games in the first place ““ because they’re fun.
Screen Scene: “American Gangster”
In the first five seconds of “American Gangster,” Denzel Washington, playing the role of Harlem drug mogul Frank Lucas, sets a bound man aflame as he pleads for his life, then wordlessly fires a bullet into the man’s head. Rest assured, the remainder of the two-and-a-half-hour film is equally brutal and unsentimental. “American Gangster” grabs […]
The next generation of gaming emerges
Those familiar with the brick-breaking, mushroom-munching Mario of olden days will have just one question when they get their hands on Nintendo’s blockbuster Wii title “Super Mario Galaxy” on Nov. 7. Exactly what was in those mushrooms?
Film students present art that speaks
Some feelings can be difficult to express and sometimes words aren’t enough.
Hammer’s sexy screenings seduce summer visitors
Inside are classic works of art, the building is cold, and the mood is calm and quiet. Yet the outside at the Hammer Museum shows a very different scene as images of murder and sex play across the museum’s courtyard screen.
“˜The Juggler’ gets serious
Chris Smith has made a name for himself at UCLA. Literally. It’s “The Juggler.”