In its ongoing attempt to recreate the entire world, Netrunner heads to India
Hacker culture meets Hinduism.
Clayton Purdom
Cats, the internet, and you
A recent influx of videogame cats begs the question: Why do we love these little assholes?
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture aims for "genuinely nonlinear narrative"
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture designer Dan Pinchbeck has written a long blog post detailing the game’s creative genesis. Peppered throughout are some hints on what the final game—which, after being shrouded in secrecy, is due to be released in early August—might contain. He’s spoken before (to Ki
Watch all six Star Wars movies at once because you don’t care and the internet killed you
This Star Wars supercut mirrors the Internet’s panic-attack hell of over-saturation.
Look, everyone, you can shoot sh*t in No Man’s Sky
The grandest videogame ever conceived has destructible trees.
My God, Cuphead still looks beautiful
A new trailer showcases the animated stunner in action.
Presenting Time Warrior, a new classic of so-bad-it’s-good cinema
Imagine Birdemic crossed with a stock photo of a gamer.
Go ghost-hunting in Geisterblut, a free-jazz blast of a videogame
Geisterblut is fucking nuts. Being “fucking nuts” appears to be its raison d’etre—its final screen, which you can reach in just a minute or two, hammers this home—but it’s not “trying to be fucking nuts” in the manner of, say, a Russell Brand bit. It is, rather, a free-jazz skronk, a noisy freakout
Sunset arrives May 21, but you can play it before then at Two5Six
Come to our free arcade in Brooklyn to play Tale of Tales’ latest before its release.
The gamer-core nihilism of Earl Sweatshirt
An insufferable shit grows up.
Memories of a Broken Dimension is here to destroy everything
XRA’s brutal, brutalist glitch experiment is more unsettling by the day.
The glorious return of Xenoblade Chronicles, which is as good a JRPG as any
The re-rebirth of the game that will not die.
The New Nintendo 3DS and the death of the screen
The final 3D videogame system is also the best.
A grown-ass man replays Final Fantasy VII
The greatest game ever made, and the problem of memory.
Stop what you’re doing and watch this interactive film on the greatest hip-hop producer ever
Dilla Dimension pays homage to the tenth anniversary of Donuts.
Listen to John Carpenter’s Lost Themes now
The importance of John Carpenter’s first decade or so of filmmaking is hard to overstate, particularly to fans of genre films. With laser-like precision in editing and pacing, he created definitive action (Assault on Precinct 13), dystopian (Escape from New York), slasher (Halloween), horror (The Th
What sort of art would the enemies from Zelda make? A serious question.
In the darkest recesses of literary nonfiction graveyards there exist half-crumpled manuscripts musing, to the night sky, what sort of art the mindless automaton antagonists of Legend of Zelda might make. Muse no longer, undergrads: here is the exact manifestation of your dreams. The cabal of “compu
Death, dismemberment, and abstract horror comes to Twitter
If your relationship with Twitter is anything like mine, you might welcome the addition of a bloodthirsty mystical beast to your timeline. That’s exactly what developer Terence Eden has done with @wnd_go, a brief and deeply abstract Choose Your Own Adventure that uses the social media service as its
3DHead is the gloriously inevitable clusterf*ck of our dreams
Terrible virtual reality continues its march into the future.
Pippin Barr made a sound system that’s only as pretty as you let it be
Pippin Barr takes on Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. The results are as noisy as you want.
Abandoned building haunted by moon in JRPG sidequest come to life
The Lithuanian street artist Morfai has a way with repurposing old objects. He’s used digital trickery to make broken public spaces whole again, and assembled bottlecaps into enormous mosaics. His recent work may be his biggest yet, though: he “stole the moon” and trapped it in an abandoned building
How do videogames change our dreams?
Or: why are you still fitting Tetris blocks together?
Boardgames are a pain. This app may help
Boardgames are great, but they are an enormous pain in the ass. This is both part of the appeal and the reason more people don’t get into them. They’re heavy, generally expensive, they require hours to set up and take apart, as well as gobs of free time penciled into a handful of people’s schedules.
The uncompromising Alien: Isolation just got uncompromising-er
There are two things to know about Alien: Isolation, the Creative Assembly horror game from earlier this year based on the long-running Alien series of films. The first thing to know is that it is really, really, really good-looking. The gone-to-shit space station you explore is bafflingly dense and
This glitch art recreates the hell of cubicle work
Glitch art comes in all shapes and sizes, and much of it is very, very bad. (Google it and you’ll see a lot of low-rent ghost imagery and, um, that one dreamy picture of Kurt Cobain?) The work of Wayne Edson Bryan cuts a different figure, though. It starts with process: Bryan actually hand-makes the