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Skeleton flower’s mystery plays out in an obsolete 1990s operating system
The bit of you left behind in your desktop.
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A videogame that teaches you the basics of CPR
“You know all this shit,” shouts Conan O’Brien, “but you don’t know who our second president was!” This outburst happened during Conan’s early look at Super Smash Bros. last year. He’s amazed that his partner for the video, Aaron Blair, knows who all of the 50-plus characters in the game are, but do
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_Howler_ improves fortune tellers by adding a psychedelic wolf
The magic 8-ball gets an upgrade.
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Subterfuge is a strategy game for parents and busy people
A game that plays around you.
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Knossu finds the horror in non-euclidean architecture
Knossu‘s wall textures sizzle as if they’ve been half-cooked on a frying pan. It’s like someone went nuts with the spray paint tool in Microsoft Paint and the most garish colors they could find. Have you ever bitten into something that was way too sour? Imagine that vigorous and unbearable taste car
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Need more Panoramical? Check out this ethereal interactive journey
With new album Yume, ambient electronica musician Helios seems to recall the beauty of lazing underneath a sun-crested sky. The music soothes by letting high notes drift out to a gold horizon. It seems to lift off from the soft fringes of grass and get carried out on a hot puff of wind. More precise
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The magical illusions of hocus. reach the zenith of minimalist puzzlers
Staring at the magician’s hands.
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How do cats see the world? This bewildering psychoscape has a rough idea
This cat is out of place. But maybe all cats are out of place. The one in Psychic Cat is probably no more suited to its environment than, say, my cat Smudge who fell through the roof of the greenhouse last year. The temptation was to call Smudge a klutz at the time (and let’s be fair, Smudge, you ar
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Let the Monument Valley studio help you meditate with this new app
Would you trust ustwo to help you relax and let out all your stress? In a way, if you’ve played through Monument Valley, you already have. I can’t speak for you but I watched my mum play that game through in one session and she was visibly chilled the hell out. I heard her deep sighs of relief and s
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The glory days of Net Yaroze as told by the game creators who were there
The challenges and camaraderie of PlayStation’s first amateur game-making community.
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Overland turns the post-apocalyptic road trip into a series of delicate dioramas
Overland has the look of something you could feasibly prod. It comes across as a series of cartoon-coated dioramas that are made to be admired up close. This is no accident. As designer Adam Saltsman explains in a new video about Overland, by having “clear, obvious visuals composed on a single scree
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The vast, lurid possibilities of PNG glitches
Glitch art is wonderful. It has the potential to be beautiful and horrifying. The best is often both at the same time. It’s got so popular now that most of us can appreciate glitch art on a visual level. But when it comes to talking about it, well, we don’t really have a clue. There isn’t an establi