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Can video games, just like movies, be comedies? Usul and Trinity analyse how humour works in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and The Stanley Parable. The burlesque, irony, or the absurd, often take centre stage in these types of games. It's what makes them worth playing.

Humour

Usul and Trinity analyse how humour works in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and The Stanley Parable

Art of Gaming

An entire genre of video games have only one goal: to frighten us. What are the techniques used to scare us silly, and what can they teach us about our own anxieties? Melek chats to Benjamin Rostalski as they attempt to survive Resident Evil, Slender and Dead by Daylight.

Horror Games

What are the techniques that horror games use to scare us silly, and what can they teach us about our own anxieties?

In Fallout 4, H1Z1, or The Forest, the player must survive in different hostile environments, whether prehistory, a desert island, a post apocalyptic world, or zombies. What drives us to want to prepare for the end of the world? Sociologist Bertrand Vidal and Trinity explain how these games tap into our most fundamental impulse: the will to survive.

Survival Games

 Sociologist Bertrand Vidal and Trinity explain how these games tap into our most fundamental impulse: the will to survive

"I'm really unlucky," says every gamer on a losing streak Conversely, a gamer who beats his or her opponents, or makes it to the next level, rarely puts this down to pure luck. When it comes to generating good luck in games, can we game the system?

Luck

When it comes to generating good luck in games, can we game the system?

Sometimes it's hard to resist the urge not to throw your gaming console out of the window when you get those uniquely annoying words - GAME OVER - on the screen. Where does this frustration come from? Melek talks to journalist Dennis Kogel and psychologist Andrew Przybylski, as they play some games. Slightly annoying games.

Frustration

Sometimes it's hard to resist the urge not to throw your gaming console out of the window when you get those uniquely annoying words - GAME OVER - on the screen

Journeying through time is one of the classic tropes of fiction and video games. Trinity and journalist Blaise Mao speed things up playing Wario Ware, slow things down with Super Hot and outright manipulate time in Life is Strange. 

Time

Always running out of time? Take back control through video games that spead up time, slow time down, or let you rewind

The realism of many video games is as striking as that of blockbusters in the movies. What is the impact of representing stories and worlds that come straight out of our imagination so realistically? What is realism, and is it realism that defines a successful game? If so, where does that leave hugely successful games that have pixelated graphics, like those of Minecraft or Tamagotchi?

What is realism, and is it realism that defines a successful game? 

Realism – Art of Gaming

An exhibition, a retrospective, a piece of art... We accompany a different contemporary artist each episode to deepen our understanding of their creative process.


Atelier A: Charlotte Charbonnel

Atelier A: Cécile Beau

An exhibition, a retrospective, a piece of art... We accompany a different contemporary artist each episode to deepen our understanding of their creative process.

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Atelier A: Charlotte Charbonnel

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Atelier A: Emmanuel Régent

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Art of Gaming

Humour

Art of Gaming

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Art of Gaming

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Art of Gaming

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Art of Gaming

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Art of Gaming

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Realism – Art of Gaming

Atelier A: Charlotte Charbonnel

Atelier A: Cécile Beau

Atelier A: Emmanuel Régent

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