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Evangelion Key art
by Roman Kalinovski
October 18, 2023
Game Theory/Major Feature

A comparative look at the endings for iconic ’90s art in America and Japan: Evangelion and Twin Peaks

Two influential media franchises from the ‘90s, Twin Peaks and Evangelion, both came to an end within the past few years. While these two series may not seem to have many obvious similarities, with one being a live-action murder mystery and the other a mecha anime, there are several parallels between the franchises. Each starts out resembling a standard work…

Features/Game Theory/Major Feature

On the Baroque and that era’s influence on thought in gaming

Wedged between the tasteful classicism of the Renaissance and the rationalism of the Enlightenment was the Baroque era. The unrestrained spectacle and excess of the Baroque is an art historical aberration, a strange and sudden plunge into decadence that encompassed the 17th century and beyond. Some of the style’s defining…

Haniwa statues in video games feature by DigitallyDownloaded.net

Ancient culture in video games: Japan’s haniwa

A Time Magazine article from 1958 describes a group of  Japanese labourers…

AI: The future of art or a sign of society in decline?

NOTE: This is a feature that was originally published in the December…

Evangelion Key art

A comparative look at the endings for iconic ’90s art in America and Japan: Evangelion and Twin Peaks

October 18, 2023
Game Theory/Major Feature

Two influential media franchises from the ‘90s, Twin Peaks and Evangelion, both came to an end within the past few years. While these two series may not seem to have many obvious similarities, with one being a live-action murder mystery and the other a mecha anime, there are several parallels…

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On the Baroque and that era’s influence on thought in gaming

September 8, 2023
Features/Game Theory/Major Feature

Wedged between the tasteful classicism of the Renaissance and the rationalism of the Enlightenment was the Baroque era. The unrestrained spectacle and excess of the Baroque is an art historical aberration, a strange and sudden plunge into decadence that encompassed the 17th century and beyond. Some of the style’s defining…

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Haniwa statues in video games feature by DigitallyDownloaded.net

Ancient culture in video games: Japan’s haniwa

March 3, 2023
Game Theory/Major Feature

A Time Magazine article from 1958 describes a group of  Japanese labourers who, while digging a road into a hillside during the postwar building boom, uncovered a cache of strange terracotta figures: clay representations of people, horses, birds, and houses. Having no idea what to do with them, the workers…

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AI: The future of art or a sign of society in decline?

December 29, 2022
Dee Dee Zine/Game Theory/Opinion

NOTE: This is a feature that was originally published in the December 2022 issue of the Dee Dee Zine. For much, much more deep insight into everything to do with video games, art, and Japanese culture buy the magazine here (or any of our other magazines from our online store).…

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