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Beat business-savvy hipsters at their own game, or die trying
They Live’s attack on commercialism updated for today
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Enter, Stage Right makes a performance out of overcoming anxiety
There’s no tutorial for dealing with anxiety.
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A new virtual reality game buries you alive in an actual coffin
Taphophobia, the fear of being buried alive, is described as being “irrational.” It’s not. An irrational fear is being scared of being shot into orbit while sleeping, or crocodiles crawling down your chimney—the likelihood of either happening is super slim. But you could be buried alive tonight or t
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Simogo announces four-part "podcast mystery," is just the coolest
“Deep breath.” /// Swedish pair Simon Flesser and Magnus Gardebäck, the two personalities that form Simogo, have proven their talent in producing air-sucking audiences. Year Walk was a creepy folk-thriller that you gasped along to. DEVICE 6 used text as a path to weave a tale of regular staccato; yo
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Let this vaporwave adventure wash over you
SEAQUEST1992 might be the most vaporwave game ever made. This isn’t only due to its deliberate similarities to 1992’s action-adventure Ecco the Dolphin—which has since lent its namesake to vaporwave’s iconic ’80s-pop mixtape Eccojams—it’s a smorgasbord of the movement’s entire characteristics. It’s
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A videogame about exploring the afterlife puts peoples’ lives in your hands
Humans have been obsessed with the concept of the afterlife for millennia. Ancient scripture and papyrus dating back as far as 3000 B.C. describes our ensouled body’s decay as opening an aperture to another realm, where our conscience can reside for ever after. The Ancient Egyptians and Greeks were
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Sneak into DeityNet to trade secrets with cyberpunkers
DeityNet is an Alt.BBS community. DeityNet is a Messaging program. It is only for the greatest cyberpunks, Demosceners, and Crack Gangs in the Deios Operating System. If you do not belong to one of those categories then you should stay out. Do not participate. Go away. This is the warning that I mus
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Tomb Raider and the riot-grrrl feminism of the ’90s
The conflicted birth and legacy of Lara Croft.
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An unusual Grand Rapids coffeeshop gets a videogame tribute
There’s a building that has sat at the west end of Grand Rapids, Michigan for over a century. It used to be a bank but has since been transformed into a coffee shop called The Bitter End. It sells loose leaf teas, Ghirardelli mochas, and something called a “bulletproof Tibetan coffee.” Its menu is t
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Torrent culture realized as a terrifying cinematic mashup
“Omnipresent telecommunications surveillance gains a global face.”
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Meet Brian, the creator of some of the internet’s funniest, weirdest nightmares
“It felt like I was ripping out all of the emotion that these digital tools could provide.”
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Planet Quest throws the best rhythm-based parties
Planet Quest is gosh-darn fabulous. It’s a rhythm game played with your fingers that somehow creates movement in your hips. It does this by channeling the same goofy energy as a Keita Takahashi game (Noby Noby Boy, Katamari Damacy) while also borrowing the zany logic of Adventure Time, or a Chuck Jo