Video games in focus at London's V&A museum exhibition
Video games take centre stage in an exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum that kicks off tomorrow and runs till February.
It looks at how such games have been designed and played since the mid-2000s.
Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt features concept art, prototypes and materials from major studios - including titles such as apocalyptical blockbuster The Last Of Us - as well as smaller independent designers in the age of smartphones and social media.
The exhibition also explores the wider cultural impact of video games, looking at the e-sport phenomenon, the political messaging of designers, the online communities that have come together worldwide to play, fan art and the rise of a Do-It-Yourself arcade scene.
The show's mantra, according to V&A chief Tristram Hunt, is "operas made out of bridges" - a phrase coined by US gaming expert Frank Lantz to describe the multi-faceted nature of making a video game.
"It is the first exhibition of its kind to consider fully the complexity of contemporary video games design - one of most important design disciplines of our time," he said. - REUTERS/AFP
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