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Mega-Controller Makes You a Wrathful Gamer God

by Warren Riddle on October 24, 2010 at 05:00 PM

When cataclysmic events occur and human lives are lost, observers inevitably wonder how a supreme being could allow such terrible circumstances to happen to undeserving innocents. Well, those events apparently take place because He/She/It (depending upon your persuasion) is an avid gamer who has been tragically corrupted by poisonous video game violence.

A piece by artist Vadim Fishkin seems to indicate that line of thought, at least. Fishkin recently crafted a massive video game controller, complete with buttons for earthquakes, floods, wars and other catastrophes. The work was available for analysis during London's Frieze Art Fair, but we'd definitely like to get our hands on a compatible God Console and ColossoTron video monitor, too. While there are obviously a few traumatic games that should be avoided, gaming on a 50-story screen would be an absolute revelation.

Tags: art, Video game art, video game controller, Video games as art, VideoGameArt, VideoGameController, videogames, VideoGamesAsArt

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