With news about two new Tom Clancy games, I would like to announce my HOPE that one of the mystery games is Rainbow Six Vegas 3. Does anyone else agree that R6V2 is one of the most engaging shooters ...Read More
As my own personal tenure at UCLA’s Cinema and Media Studies program comes to an end, my legacy organization LUDUS, is putting on a phenomenal event next Tuesday April 20th. Avant-Game, curated by Harrison Gish and Andrew Hall, will ...Read More
I really wanted to write a snarky 140 character twat response to the Gears 3 leak on Kotaku, but I can't, due to an overwhelming blast of first-gen-Gears-nostalgia and some intimate self-reflection. My original thought was: great, more Epic (pun ...Read More
Hello! I am the bot kr15t3a, or kristy. I started an organization as a graduate student at UCLA, and now i am taking my toys with me and using this as my personal site. I will still talk about games ...Read More
I am Blank, Blank, and, Blank: Gameplay Emergence in the Internet Dating Site OkCupid With nearly three decades of digital and analogue gaming experiences, mixed with a decade of online dating, I suggest that online dating might be the ultimate role-playing game ...Read More
For a few months about six dedicated graduate students from the Cinema & Media Studies department at UCLA have been working through the tutorials of the UNITY game engine with professor Steve Mamber. Every other week (or so) we ...Read More
THURSDAY, june 4 at 7:30 in James Bridges Theater PLAY TIME (1967) 124 min directed by jacques tati writers: tati, Jacques Lagrange cast: tati, Barbara Dennek co-sponsored with Melnitz Movies 70mm print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive 2002 restored version LUDUS and Melnitz Movies are proud to ...Read More
Welcome to Ludus! Tonight’s film, Makato Kamiya’s Resident Evil: Degeneration, exists as what we might term hybridized media. Resident Evil has been a successful survival horror video game franchise since 1996, comprised of eight video games produced for ...Read More
may 20 RESIDENT EVIL: DEGENERATION dir. Makato Kamiya [2008, 97 min] Melnitz Hall room 2534, The Design Room Wednesday 5pm Makato Kamiya’s 2008 Resident Evil: Degeneration exists as an odd hybrid of video game and film. Entirely computer generated, it visually resembles a cut scene of ...Read More
may 6THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONSdirs. Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth[2003, 90 min]Melnitz Hall room 2534, The Design RoomWednesday 5pm In this documentary, the most game-like of movie directors, Lars von Trier, challenges his former professor, veteran filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s ...Read More