Life actually does flash before your eyes in Close Your
Blink and you’ll miss it.
Chris Priestman
Sympathy for the Goblin: A review of Styx: Master of Shadows
Show them the meaning of fear.
With money comes tragedy in idle game Exoptable Money
Mo’ money, mo’ problems is the lesson of this idle game.
This ambient toy aids appreciation of Manfred Mohr’s computer art
Do not fear the hypercube.
You’ve defended towers, now defend your gross internal organs
It’s not until you fall sick that you appreciate good health. You enter a state of hyper-sensitivity, suddenly realizing the labor of your every action, every movement, and every breath. Sometimes, when ill, I sit up in bed to fully concentrate my newfound awareness of the coiling and squelching of
Feed a hungry skeleton, fall in love in Breakfast at Cemetery
A tale of life, love, and death.
Remaking the videogame canon with Rachel Weil
Or: the rebirth of pink.
Fear the pyramid with CHYRZA’s Twilight Zone-style horror
If you look beyond the sillier plots of classic TV series The Twilight Zone (such as Dennis Hopper getting leadership lessons from a not-dead-actually Adolf Hitler) then you can find a distinct type of timeless horror. It’s not the shock-gore or psychotic killer chases of schlocky horror films and c
Realize the compositional beauty of Rachmaninoff in Zero Age
I suppose you’ve heard that classical music apparently acts as a complementary aid to learning. It’s the type of reported notion that causes pregnant mothers to waddle around the house, a pair of headphones stretched around their baby-bloated bellies, all in order to blast Beethoven foetus-side thro
The experimental narrative vignettes of André Blyth
Both new flesh and tarot, in videogame form.
The Official captures all the struggles of early adulthood, in low-poly beauty
When I last spoke to Tymon Zgainski in late 2012, he had just entered his adult life, being a new student at the University of Edinburgh, and was “concerned with issues of modern civilization and our responsibility towards the environment we live in.” At the time, he was showing an image from his fi
Make sure you lose in "anti-racing" game Boxcar Brats
Triumph! At last.
An actual "walking simulator" for all you smartphone walkers
Something to pay attention to.
A videogame in which you do nothing by a designer who may not exist
We’re still waiting.
Brother, groove with me in this VW van for a minute
Half a year ago, Brazilian animator Antonio Vicentini turned multi-instrumentalist and musical director Fernando Barba’s song “Cheiro Verde” into a psychedelic animation following the magical trip of a morphing Volkswagen Bus (sometimes referred to as the “hippie wagon”). The song has an organic sou
Totem’s Sound takes a cynical look at American colonialism
Digital colonialism gets a new look.
Here’s a game that recreates the futility of finding love online
Click click click, indeed.
Wrack evokes the greatness of shooters past
You have to keep moving and shooting, always.
Un Chien Andalou’s eye-slicing scene becomes a videogame
“The goal is to give [the] player this short and strong experience of cutting [an] eye.”
Flappy Bird as mid-life crisis
The depressing sight of a declining bank balance, struck by mortgages and overdue fees.
First "official" H. P. Lovecraft videogame is a slow-burning horror
“Once you meet the monsters, they simply stop being scary.”
The videogames that saved me in EGX’s Leftfield Collection
EGX’s Leftfield Collection had filmic cuts, beautiful worlds of light, and a game about being a tree.
Now you can explore 2001’s psychedelic "Star Gate" sequence
Black Hole Interior Explorer is as the title describes: awesome.
Rooftop Cop investigates the "ritual manifestations" of police violence
“At what point does a cop become a threat to the subject they’re supposed to protect?”
Two new games let us finally hang out in the Mos Eisley Cantina
Take in the sights and sounds of two dark alien metropolises.