Article
Can a Flash game improve the lives of Syrian refugees?
Inside the Egyptian-made food-prep game that aims to help Syrians displaced in the civil war
Jason Johnson
Article
Attention angry nerds: stop sending Bayonetta creator death tweets
INTRANURTZ rage has gone too far this time. Now, it’s personal.
Article
Won’t virtual reality die already?
I thought Valve was working on a real-life portal gun. Instead, they built 1992.
News
Electing the Freshman Class to the UN of Gaming
This post is part of a content series presented in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, simplicity is delicious. Technology may be making the world smaller, but as the computer scientist Vannevar Bush pointed out in his watershed 1945 essay As We May Think, it is also making the world infinitel
Interview
Designer Matt Parker’s Lumarca is 3D and out of this world.
What’s inside this box?
Article
Hello childhood. Darksiders II is action figurines for adults.
Like playing with dolls? Then you’re going to love Vigil Games’ addition to the Darksiders franchise.
Essay
Love to Worry
Games are a collision of study and play, but they lean heavily on the former. Jason Johnson’s trip into the chaotic mines of Spelunky taught him how to love the inhumanity of the machine.
Columns
In Search of Mothra Fairies
What do onigiri treasure, killer doll heads, spreadsheets, and gymnastics have in common? It turns out nothing, but we can recommend them all in the sudden return of Flash Forward.
Columns
The Radioactive Circus
Is this London installation the most dangerous ride in the world? Jason Johnson speaks with artist Ryan Doyle about The Liquidator, a kinetic sculpture he built using radioactive metal collected from the site of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Review
Mise-@-Scène
Before email and Twitter, the @ symbol was the faceless character of Rogue and its cult of roguelikes. New from rising developer Michael Brough is Zaga-33, a dungeon crawl that manages to be beautifully abstract and polemical at once. Has Brough found the message in the medium?
Interview
"Humans Can’t Keep on Top of Numbers."
Buddhist metal duo Yamantaka // Sonic Titan recently contributed to Klei Entertainment’s upcoming Mark of the Ninja. We talk to Ruby Attwood and Alaska B about the cosmic in Chun-Li cosplay and creating drum patterns as code.
Review
The Tricky Serve of Mario Tennis Open
Tennis, as a videogame, has never exactly replicated the complex physics of the sport. Instead, tennis videogames give a skin to button-ordering finger memory games. We see how Mario Tennis Open for the 3DS furthers the illusion.