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Unexpected videogame adverts celebrate women, fashion, and dance
A more fiercely feminine type of game marketing.
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Porpentine talks about leaving her trauma-filled hypertext fictions in the past
“It felt like making a doppelganger of myself and shooting her in the head.”
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Architecture for atheists acknowledges the infinite detail of the universe
How do you build a church for an atheist? Who or what, exactly, would an atheist be looking to worship at a church made for them? These are null questions as, by definition, an atheist has no need for a church, at least not for prayer and sermons. It’s a shame, really, as while the routine of Sunday
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"Backseats in Videogames" finds the serene beauty of racing games
Racing up front, beautiful road trips in the back.
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Don’t fret, this website tells you what emotions to feel when watching Wimbledon
If you’re watching this year’s Wimbledon (you know, the tennis) how can you be sure that you’re feeling the right emotions at the right time? It’s alright, don’t panic, apparently this is a common problem that the event’s car sponsor Jaguar has tackled with a website that will tell you exactly how t
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The satisfying mundanity of Cradle’s science fiction
Today’s wonders are tomorrow’s chores.
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How do you bring the magic of Spelunky to 3D architecture?
Mark Johns is chasing a ghost. This is what he tells me. It’s not quite the truth. The spectral quality of this “ghost” isn’t immateriality; interfacing with it isn’t a problem, Johns has done that thousands of times. The hard bit, and the bit he’s after, is understanding it. The ghost is actually S
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Long live Doom
Worship at the altar of shooting hellspawn.
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Photo series captures the "existential despair" of GTA V
Grand Theft Auto V is an ugly mirror held up to modern-day America, and it’s plenty dark as it is, thanks. But Danish photographer Morten Rockford Ravn has taken to capturing the game’s inherent “existential despair” in striking black-and-white snapshots with the in-game camera phone. It’s an ongoin
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This is sad: Tale of Tales is done making videogames
But their games live on as cultural touchstones.
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Harmonix’s virtual reality game is a music "spatializer"
Harmonix reckons it’s time for the music visualizer to go about a big change. That’s probably about right. For an electronic art that’s almost as old as videogames it’s a wonder how it’s managed to remain so close to its roots in abstract shape-making. Did you know that the first commercial electron
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Tonight You Die draws out our fear in a concrete terrorscape
A brutalist stab of the dark.