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No, the way out of the trench war is usually to adopt openly the “old-fashioned” side that is being critiqued, while finding some way to flip it completely into something strange. I think of Cézanne in painting, who amidst the impressionist revolution found a way to retrieve the solidity of objects without relapsing into academicism,…
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Minecraft is the winner of a new arts award for computer games. The prize was announced at the finale of the GameCity videogame culture festival in Nottingham. The title is the work of an independent Swedish company, Mojang. Players have to build objects out of blocks in an open environment. The game was selected over…
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Rovio Entertainment has said it will open its first retail outlet this year. Bloomberg has reported that the firm is aiming to hit $100 million in retail sales in the country in its first year of trading. The chief marketing officer, Peter Vesterbacka said at the Techcrunch conference in Beijing: “China is our fastest-growing market,…