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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
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Microsoft’s relationship with individual creators is notoriously dicey. The hefty corporate entity has taken heat for a number of its policies, such as the displacement of the erstwhile Xbox Indie Games service, and charging the little guy exorbitant fees, causing Phil Fish to infamously tweet “Not
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Since this summer when Edward Snowden informed the world that the NSA is snooping on all of us, I’ve been a little more cautious about what I say online. More than a few instant messages that could be taken the wrong way have ended in a nervous joke about now being on the terrorist watch list. If y
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A bot that buys random stuff from Amazon, Darius Kazemi’s Random Shopper was a stroke of demented genius. Zazemi programmed the automated software to crawl the pages of the online retailer and spend fifty dollars on physical media at random each month, which is ironic in all kinds of ways. On Black
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The above image is either a scene from The Last of Us or from a Target earlier today. We’re not really sure. So we don’t blame you if you stayed snuggled in bed on Black Friday, avoiding the riots at your local electronics department. If you braved the cold and the inhumanity, more power to you. But
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At the end of a long day, sometimes you really need some STARWHAL. You simply can’t beat the therapeutic qualities of a rainbow of orcas spiraling end over end in a futile attempt to jab each other with sparkling magic wands. Or are they unicorn horns? To quote its Kickstarter page, “STARWHAL will
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One thing we’ve seen since Steam user-reviews have gone live is a onslaught of indie game developers asking for their Twitter followers to rate their games, as you can see: This is amazing because, whereas large teams dread being reviewed by reviewers-at-large on the aggregate site Metacritic, here
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Once upon a time in the late aughts, Nintendo had a dream that the DS would be used for any number of non-gaming extracurricular activities: ordering beers at Seattle Mariner home games, touring feudal rock gardens in Osaka; and ogling the Venus de Milo at the Louvre. The idea with the Louvre in pa
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And who can blame him? The oxymoronic device which Sony has patented is a toupee that sends “tactile feedback” to your cerebral cortex when you, say, receive an email, or an important text. The hypothetical mane would be equipped with a variety of sensors, and possibly GPS, a point-and-click camera,
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The StoryBundle is a collection of outstanding zines, magazines, guides, and even poems about videogames. And we’re not just saying that because we’re among them. (Issues number 1 and 7 are included.) We’re seriously honored to be featured alongside great writing about games such as Rise of the Vide