The long-awaited Art of Video Games exhibition opened Friday at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The exhibit runs through September.

Enjoy Ryan Biggs’ recent report and photos from The History of Video Game Consoles exhibit at the Arizona Pop Culture Experience — it may be your only chance to see the stuff on display. That’s because today we’re getting word the collectibles have been pulled.
Jonathan Simon of the Arizona geek culture blog Lightning Octopus reports that the donors have pulled their contributions, just days after Nerdvana was among a group of media invited to tour the exhibit.
We’ll have more info when it becomes available.
UPDATE: Social marketing agency Pink Media, which …

Ryan Biggs: Recently, I was invited to attend a show and tell of extreme magnitude at the Arizona Popular Culture Experience in the Desert Ridge Marketplace. Within this collection is a new exhibit: The History of Video Game Consoles.

In Apple’s first product launch since the death of the company’s co-founder Steve Jobs, the third iPad was revealed.
And much like the launch of the iPhone 4S, it was kind of a downer.
Its main new feature include a Retina display with 3.1 million pixels in a 2048×1635 arrangement, which Engadget reports is 264ppi, which could be the highest amount of pixels of any tablet on the market. Supporting this brilliant new screen is an A5X processor and quad core graphics chips. Simplified, all this this means things will look better load faster …

Deep Black: Reloaded is a game stuck between two worlds. To expensive to be truly considered an arcade game but not enough content to be a full retail release either. Deep Black sits awkwardly in the middle, not really sure what it wants to be.
Deep Black is set in 2047. You control Syrus Pierce, an ex-mercenary called back in by his former commanding officer, General Jack Sterling, for one last mission. Throw in a dash of corporate espionage, an ounce of bio-terrorism, and some pretty terrible dialog and you have …

Ken Levine, the creative director and co-founder of Irrational Games who had been scheduled to talk about the making of BioShock II in early March at Mesa Community College, will not be presenting until mid- to late-April at the earliest.
According to the college’s Keith Anderson, the trouble nailing Levine down involves the impending release of BioShock Infinite, the third entry in the groundbreaking video game series, for which Levine is the lead game designer.
The lecture was part of MCC’s ongoing program “Video Games as a Force and Art Form:  Teaching, …

More than a year after an online combat game based on television’s Stargate franchise shut down after years of controversy and possible fraud, and more than a month after I pointed out that assets from that game were still being used to promote gambling ventures, the practice continues.
Does anybody at MGM care how their intellectual property is being used?
Welcome to the Stargate casino: Playing in the ruins of a sci-fi video game franchise

Penny Arcade, the long-running webcomic about gaming and gamers, is no stranger to branching out. They’ve got the charity Child’s Play, the annual gaming convention Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) and have even produced a couple of games of their own. Now the site is adding long-form video games journalism to its list of offerings.
In the first week, Penny Arcade Report senior editor Ben Kuchera has presented in-depth looks at BioWare’s expanding empire, Kickstarter sensation Double Fine and a controversial exploration of the culture of sexual harassment in fighting game circles …

Would you pay even more for the latest must-have electronics if it meant better wages and working conditions for their manufacturers?

In the tech world, one of the most popular and fastest developing trends is cloud computing, and Intel is set on creating the industry standard. Essentially, cloud computing eliminates much of the stress and fatigue that our networks and infrastructure are burdened with. End users (clients, customers, etc) are able to access cloud-based applications via the Internet as if it were “business as usual,” but the real benefits are reserved for the businesses providing the data.
Humanity recently hit a huge milestone. Earth is now home to over 7 billion people. …