One of the most-derided opinions film critic Roger Ebert ever had was one that, to him, probably seemed like the most anodyne: video games were not art. “Let me just say that no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form,” Ebert proclaimed in a post to […]
Trevor Hultner
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Islands of escape
On March 20, 2020, something weird happened. A video game, of all things, became a symbol of the fight against COVID-19. Coming into 2020, Nintendo, one of the “Big Three” video game console makers along with Sony and Microsoft, was celebrating a minor victory. It had just sold more lifetime units of its flagship handheld […]
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Barcade crawl
I have a confession to make. I didn’t go to arcades when I was a kid. Part of the reason why is that I’m a child of the 90s. I was born a whole decade after the arcade boom and bust, and by the time I was ten years old – at the turn of […]
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OKC-Based Video Game
Oklahoma City is not a place where you’re most likely to find a video game studio. The majority of the industry is based in cities like Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin or Montreal, but that hasn’t stopped James Simpson, the CEO of GoldFire Studios, from setting up shop here in the Metro. Simpson has been making […]
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What the hell is Twitch?
Mike Aguilar wasn’t trying to change the academic world or flip established industries on their heads in November 2016. As a technology strategist for the University of Oklahoma’s Central IT department and the Honors College, he was simply trying to answer the questions his boss asked, including how OU could use it upon returning from […]
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Austin rock band anniversary tour stops in OKC
A 20-year-old Austin band’s Trail of Dead stops in OKC.
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Poets examine, discuss Iraq at OCU
An Iraqi woman and an American soldier to discuss the war.
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Art galleries to see in 2015
Oklahoma City has plenty of art galleries that support local artists and more.
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Metro skylines examined through artistic lens at DNA
The artist’s mind keeps wandering back to Oklahoma.
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In Your Eye Studio celebrates glass artist, acrylic painters
Paseo Arts District’s In Your Eye Studio & Gallery hosts Celebrations, works by glass artist Nicki Albright and acrylic painters Sue Hale, Dana Powell and Mary Howard, noon-5 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. “We’re equal-opportunity artists,” Hale, a founding member of the gallery, said about the exhibit’s theme. “[The holiday season] is a great time […]