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Today we present an 11-minute documentary by animator Simon Cottee on the pixel art phenomenon.

This may be the age of impeccable, realistic game graphics, but ironically it is pushing more people to appreciate the simpler things in games – good ol’ pixilated images and music!

Today we resume our exclusive two-part interview on games research, the new frontier of gaming! We look at major breakthroughs, some experimental games, and how a games research lab works. Read Part One here.

We speak to the heads of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab: Professors Philip Tan (US Executive Director; project manager with Media Development Authority of Singapore) and William Uricchio (Lead Principal Investigator; Director of MIT Comparative Media Studies)...

Hey, hey, hey! It's another month on the DANamic.ORG Network! If you've taken a recent trip back, you would have seen the totally new designs, features and improvements. That's right! We've entered version 3.0! And while it's another milestone overall, we also have some new content to share with you guys, here at home.

What is Tom Hanks waiting for? Why, to hear the story of the man who inspired this movie of course!
Source: DreamWorks SKG

So you’ve touched down at the airport and you can’t wait to bug a jazz superstar for his autograph. What you didn’t know while en route was that a revolution had broken out in your home country, and suddenly the country does not acknowledge your citizenship anymore. Now you can’t leave the airport, and you can’t go back home. What do you do? Why, live in the airport of course!

That’s probably the greatest similarity The Terminal (2004) has with the inspiration behind the story... an Iranian refugee by the name of Mehran Karimi Nasseri. Nasseri was allegedly paid US$250,000 for rights to his story which the movie directed by Steven Spielberg was loosely based upon.