Watch the inevitable doom of your youth and aspirations in Armageddon
When graduating college felt like the end of the world.
Jess Joho
The videogame that 19th-century high-society British people would’ve played
Find love in Solitaire with this historial romance fiction card game.
This augmented reality installation will melt your brain and your hand
Marvel at the utter weirdness of your own limbs in the Augmented Reality Hand Series.
Autumn, the Oculus Rift experience tackling the post-traumatic stress of surviving rape
We talk to the creators of Autumn, a virtual reality experience about the aftermath of sexual assault.
Help a child talk through her trauma in a therapy session with Paperknife
What exactly connects videogames and psychology?
We talk to Simogo about their Sensational December Machine
Simogo’s The Sensational December Machine asks why we fear emotive technology.
Public radio’s videogame music guru Emily Reese wants you to listen up
A conversation with public radio’s most outspoken advocate for the art of videogame composition.
Go on a game-making roadtrip with Major Bueno
Finally, the Major Bueno duo are at it again with their most ambitious game-making challenge yet.
Enjoy the hot man-on-man action of Coming Out On Top
Or: Why liking gay porn is totally normal for a straight married woman.
The autobiographical dress-em-up about pleasing your conservative parents
Did your parents ever say “you’re not leaving the house wearing that?”
We played Lindsay Lohan’s videogame so you wouldn’t have to
The price of fame? Carpal tunnel, apparently. Lindsay Lohan wants some of your freemium cash. In the name of irony, of course. Not, like, for money—obviously.
In Stellar Smooch, you’ve got a hot date with fate and outer space
Explore the abyss that is love and relationships with Stellar Smooch.
Wander through rural Scotland in the deeply personal Beeswing
How would you capture your hometown in a videogame?
Peter Padder Pauleypop reminds players why being a grown up is totally depressing
Take a deep dive into this anguished love letter to SNES Final Fantasy games.
The next time someone doesn’t understand systemic prejudice, send them this game
Procedural rhetoric is at its finest in Parable of the Polygons.
Creators of Unfinished Swan reveal latest project with an eerie trailer
And they insist it isn’t a horror game, even though it might still scare you.
We talk to the creator of the dude-butt sensation Hurt Me Plenty
Consent has never looked so sexy.
Fall in Love with the adorable outer-space pets of Cube and Me
“Fine, if I can’t have a puppy, then can I at least get an outer space cube-alien for Christmas?” Cube and Me is the pet sim/dungeon crawler that looks like companion cube had a bunch of badass babies.
Twelve Minutes examines the hellish reality of videogame time loops
Imagine a moment you must relive until you get everything right. Now realize that that’s literally every videogame.
Long live Telltale’s presumably death-filled Game of Thrones series
Try to say “Telltale Games’ Game of Thrones game” three times fast. Or just go play episode one, released today. Explore Telltale’s latest transmedia contribution in part one of their episodic GoT series, out now.
It’s finally happened: Ubisoft broke Assassin’s Creed
Rogue abandons the Creed in more ways than one.
VA-11 HA-LL-A, where the everyday people of cyberpunk dystopia go to be heard
A cyberpunk booze ’em up that’s all about waifus and forgetting your troubles. VA-11 HA-LL-A makes bartending in a dystopia look like way too much fun.
Indoor kids rejoice: there’s finally a social interaction simulator you can use as practice
Feel better about your social ineptitude with Social Interaction Trainer.
Find joy in the little things with Petrichor
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso This morning, it rained. I watched from inside, warm and happy to be there instead of underneath a punctured sky. Each droplet bolted to the ground like a bullet, heavy, fast, exact. The sound of rain, calming but
Americana Dawn, the JRPG finding the humanity buried under the colonial era
The JRPG passion project combining Genso Suikoden and Mark Twain.