imran*

Category: Videogames

  • Shelf Life

    —

    by

    imran
    in , , , ,

    Eventually, Everything is Bits. Even you. And Everything has a shelf life, even shelves. My shelves are experiencing an accelerating half life – a shelfular singularity if you like. Books, photos, movies, music and games now inhabit the clouds, pixellated, digitised and discless. My media genome is now scattered across many heavenly shelves… — Moving pictures took…

  • Ever Wanted To Be Somewhere Else?

    —

    by

    imran
    in ,

    Woah. Is this what would happen if Charlie Kaufmann was writing videogames? Valve‘s Portal looks like a physics-mashing blend of Being John Malkovich and the ACME Portable Hole; the trailer is even reminiscent of the movie’s LesterCorp orientation films. I’ve been very critical of the state of innovation in the games industry, but it seems as…