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Mayday! Deep Space is your harrowing weekend odyssey
Get ready to wipe your iPad down, occasionally.
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Recapturing the low-res horror of early 3D worlds
“I feel like I’ve been given the tools and powers of some half-crazed architecture-goddess, and I can reify any weird dream or vision I have. And I intend to.”
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NO FUN HOUSE is what happens when a net artist decides to break Unity
Embracing videogame failure with Cassie McQuater.
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More fortune tellers need monkey onesies and glitches
Divination, after all, is the crowned ruler of the mystic.
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Sci-fi film corridors re-purposed as a videogame maze
The history of sci-fi, stitched together in glorious 3D.
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Survive Christmas as a poverty-stricken dad in 33rd Street
You are going to make it through this week.
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Remaking the notorious PS1 freakout LSD: Dream Emulator
Coming probably not very soon to Unity and/or your nightmares.
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I’m Positive aims to reduce the stigma around getting tested for HIV
Pardon me, but let’s start this out with a personal question: Have you been tested for HIV? If you’re aged between 13 and 64 years old then it’s recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that you get tested for it at least once. Time’s a-tickin’. If you’re a little frighten
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Experience the Ferguson shooting from the witnesses’ perspectives
A new experimental project by Fusion, in conjunction with Empathetic Media and the Reynolds Journalism Institute, showcases the potential of using virtual reality and game development tools as an apparatus for reporting real-world events. It’s called Ferguson VR, and it allows you to explore the eig
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How do you make a better political videogame? Here’s one idea
If there were an ongoing debate about how best to weave political discourse into a videogame, I’d have to put a vote in for the way Jonas and Verena Kyratzes have always done it. Sure, I’ll give credit to those making short, systems-based games such as the prolific and controversial Molleindustria,
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Punch a $10 million painting and get away with it
Ever wanted to punch a painting? I don’t mean a pre-schoolers’ red-blobbed masterpiece of their family. We’re talking a painting hung with a lavish golden frame in an art gallery, the type that people swan around with fingers curled to their chins, thoughts swirling with admiration. That type of pai
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Find a disturbing truth when rummaging through the wreckage of a home
Forsaken is a game that posits a creeping question: what do your dwelling and possessions reveal about your character? It employs you as someone who is sent to declutter and clean up abandoned houses. The one you get to mouse over is an omnishambles; a putrid disarray of residential flotsam. As you