Honky-Tonk Tchaikovsky? ‘Fantasia’ Game Offers a Way
By LAURA PARKER
In Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved, developers at the video game company Harmonix build on Walt Disney’s classic 1940 animated film.
The extent to which video games have become part of mainstream culture in South Korea may be a sign of things to come in the West.
In Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved, developers at the video game company Harmonix build on Walt Disney’s classic 1940 animated film.
The atmosphere has become so toxic that critics and developers are urging big companies in the $70-billion-a-year video game industry to do more to stop it.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a new role-playing game set in the “Lord of the Rings” world.
Destiny, a science-fiction game from Activision and Bungie, is new but already on pace to become a billion-dollar success.
The new season comes with an array of promising video games, including Destiny (Paul McCartney! Peter Dinklage!) and Fantasia: Music Evolved (Mozart! Lady Gaga!).
First-person shooters, from retro to sophisticated. Also, Foursquare’s Swarm app comes to Windows Phone.
Conceiving a museum exhibition devoted to women in the video game industry, which hasn’t always welcomed them.
Reviews of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, a satire on celebrity culture; Metrico, a puzzle game for Sony’s Vita mobile console; and other releases.
How to wade through the crush of culture coming your way this season? Here’s a guide to 100 events that have us especially excited, in order of appearance.
The New York Times would like to hear how sexism and gender issues have affected your experience with gaming.