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High scores, high art?
Yes, even stranger than thatcyberspace Oregon Country Fair.
It’s all a ruse, of course. Step through either and you’ll end up in the same room. We’re all gamers, the installation exalts. Incredible.
It’s all a facade, of course. The entire gallery is really just a novel way for Activision’s marketing department to share demographic breakdowns, taken froma survey of over 20,000 players. Each piece represents a different type of “gamer”, you see, from the dabbler (may play something now and again) to the denialist (has four active WoW accounts, refuses to be called a gamer).
And that’s really the sting, isn’t it? I quite like me a good videogame museum. Fromcrowdsourced bird galleriesto acollection of lockpicking mechanics I inadvertently willed into existence, there’s a fascinating scene of small creators using the format.
