Fall Arts Preview - Times 100
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.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: The protagonist Talion, who seeks to avenge his wife’s killing, rides a creature in a scene from this video game.
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.
Many video game developers let players try out games while they are being created, then incorporate their feedback to fine-tune projects in the making.
Reviews of the Japanese game Tomodachi Life, the retro-modern Shovel Knight and other new 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.
