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The satisfying mundanity of Cradle’s science fiction
Today’s wonders are tomorrow’s chores.
Chris Priestman
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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.
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Miyamoto explains how he turned his love for a Japanese shrine into a videogame
“When there’s an arch you want to go under it, right? That’s the kind of game I wanted to make.” When Shigeru Miyamoto delivers lines like that no one knows what he means. Not at first. He may be the famed designer of many of Nintendo’s most successful videogames from the past 35 years but Miyamoto
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Eitr will give us a reason to get mad at Norse gods and clean house
Eitr‘s red-headed Shield Maiden is justifiably pissed off after having her destiny figuratively scribbled over in crayon by the mischievous god Loki. He’s a trickster god, a god of infant-worthy trouble, and Loki is the easiest of the Norse gods to hate. He gives birth to eight-legged horses and fat
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Doom SnapMap will let you create maps without having to code
If you’re not busy snapping chest bones in Doom 4 once it’s out you can snap together your own maps and game modes. And let’s be clear: “snap” is apparently the keyword here. It alludes to the apparent accessibility of the game’s SnapMap feature. The boast from Doom 4‘s executive producer Marty Stra
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Paint the screen with glitches in this virtualization of our chaotic online lives
A virtual storm of emoticons and floppy disks.
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As beautiful as ABZÛ is it does not forget the deep terrors of the ocean
If you have a child, do not take them on vacation to the cold Cornwall coasts. It is a place of terror. Dark rugged waves that foam at the mouth aggressively pound steep rocks to a deafening chorus. On the wet sand lies the receding tide’s victims: purple blobs of dead jellyfish, scattered like alie