| Exhibition of the history of video games opens in renovated gallery at the Grand Palais |
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PARIS.- Video games are a new media which first appeared in the early 1970s and have steadily developed into a major cultural industry. From the outset, this new media stimulated much discussion and analysis, focused mainly on the social or personal impact of game playing. This exhibition takes a different approach, looking at video games from an aesthetic and cultural angle. This is the first exhibition held in the renovated South East Gallery in the Grand Palais. The history of video games goes hand-in-hand with the evolution of technology, which allowed game developers to create increasingly rich and varied worlds and game experiences. Thanks to increasingly powerful computer components, each new generation of video game hardware has enjoyed greater design possibilities not only visually but in music, sound and interactivity. The first video games were big white squares; the most recent have high resolution or even 3-D read full article
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