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When I heard that Virginia Tech students were performing an opera in Minecraft, my reaction could be described as befuddled dissonance. My logical brain thought: What the hell, a Minecraft opera? And the part of my brain that knows and loves the internet thought: Of course, there is a Minecraft oper
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Yesterday Tech Crunch published a corporate profile on the new wave of uber-successful mobile games coming out of Finland, including the popular Clash of Clans, and a game I forget the name of—something to do with miffed red canaries? In any case, the key to success for these filthy rich Fins, says
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With the stylish and Swedish-made Rymdkapsel coming out for the PC, its composer Salkinitzor found it the right opportunity to release a (very) limited edition cassette of the game’s 30 minute soundtrack. It’s a nice-looking tape and a listenable album. If you’re wondering why a cassette, this is a
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Real-life is even stupider than Call of Duty
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You can patch DARPA’s buggy software by playing these brainy games
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It involves lots of YouTube.
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We want a videogame Fugazi.
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Your tablet and phone is about to get adventure-ified.
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We we’re catching up on our magazine backlog over the holiday, and came across this amazing story in the New Yorker from a few weeks back. The yearly technology issue had a profile on Eliot Higgins, a tenacious blogger who used his internet savvy to prove that Syria had indeed used chemical weapons.
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In the latest Harper’s, Ben Lerner describes 20th century art as a wave of vandalism. If that’s the case, then the graphic designer Louisa Gagliardi stays the course with her series of monochromatic illustrations entitled FPS. She has tagged works of well-known graphic artists such as Ellsworth Kell
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Our first thought when we heard there was a Jane Austen MMO on Kickstarter was that this has to be a joke. But when we saw that the project was successfully funded for over a hundred-thousand dollars, we realized it was for real. Ever, Jane: The Virtual World of Jane Austen exists currently as an ea
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FJORDS—a little-known game about the endless exploration of computer code and glistening cataracts with a hook shot—has been out for just over a month. It was a Fantastic Arcade selection and comes highly-recommended by the ambassador of indie games Brandon Boyer. Despite the accolades, Kyle Reimerg