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Lucas Pope finds his procedural zen
The follow-up to Papers, Please is looking lovely and decidedly lo-fi.
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Hell-bent for leather with Bayonetta 2
Stand by for Exciter.
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Relish the look of Beyond Eyes’ watercolor visions
One-woman studio tiger & squid’s Beyond eyes reached nearly half of its Indiegogo goal last October. Since then it’s gone dark, only resurfacing this week to the news that publisher Team 17 (best known for the Worms series, but they’ve been diversifying as of late) has picked up the game for a 2015
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The dream of the 80s is alive in VR
Console cowboys welcome.
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Mecca 3D allows Muslims to make a pilgrimage using VR
The hajj is one of the Five Pillars of Islam; it demands that all able Muslims make pilgrimage to Mecca at least once before they die. That’s kind of a lot to ask, I imagine, especially if you find yourself without the means. But what other choice does a devotee have? Well, there’s Mecca 3D, an app
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Alien: Isolation might do the impossible: make Alien scary again
You have my sympathies.
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At least someone’s thinking of your thumbs
Big phones are increasingly the norm. And aside from the obvious challenges of these handheld obsidian monoliths—such as “Where do I stash this thing?”—there is a more concrete problem, an issue of design: the way you hold your (pitiful, obsolete) phone now is not going to be the way you hold one of
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Poor old Kinect is finding new life as a scientific assistant
Well, it’s good to see it busy.
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The garish psychotronic madness of Uriel’s Chasm nods to early Swans
The band Swans have two distinct phases. The first is grimy, industrial no-wave that churns and roils Tetsuo-like with dystopic paranoia and twisted sexuality. The second phase—their current one—is patient, unfurling twenty-minute art rock tapestries largely devoid of distorted guitars and far more
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Beat Blox is like real-life Patatap
The intuitive, color-soaked beat-making app Patatap is something we still think you should check out. Following in its footsteps is Beat Blox, a grad project by Swedish student Per Holmquist. His piece, created at the Beckmans College of Design, takes Patatap‘s tactility and fuses that with the much
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The developers behind Monument Valley are making a VR game
Fleece jacket not included.
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Human Harp lends grace to industrial spaces
Di Mainstone is an artist whose work bridges the gap between sculpture and the human body. She entwines the two, creating wearable, touchable, playable apparatuses that range from pulsing Cronenberg-style bioforms to a neck-mounted motion-based instrument that transforms its wearer into a one-woman