Watch this augmented reality game make London’s Barbican Estate an epic playspace
Can games help re-appropriate underused urban spaces?
Jess Joho
The lovely Moon Hunters wants to bring ritual back to modern society
“Stories in games share the oral tradition’s tendency toward dynamic, action-oriented, and branching narratives.”
Imagining the apocalypse of The Day Google Street View Stood Still
If you’re like me, you’re someone who has a sneaking suspicion that Google will be our benevolent overlords by 2020. Google maps is tracking your every move. The company recently became armed with robots. And Google Street View has apparently figured out time travel technology (kind of). When Google
Frankenstein MD will both charm and creep you the hell out
Bad ass chick alert on high. Do not mess with Victoria Frankenstein.
Here’s a bot that wants to make Twitter less awful
Social media, you can do better than this. “Twitter has, at best, provided vague efforts to address the problem at a glacial pace.”
Documentary on sound in videogames explores human/machine divide
Rage with the machine. Not against it. “8bit captures the tug and pull between computer and player, the interaction between an unforgiving system and your racing heart.”
The interactive storybook that makes every kid a hero
Little girls deserve to dream of more than being a princess.
Anagram twitter bot makes poetry out of your useless tweets
Okay, maybe they’re not all useless.
This live-stream will let you sneak around a famous London art museum after hours
With friggen robots.
The lovely, pastel Donut County fills the hole created by gentrification
Big hole. Big donut?
The Night Trap revival only shows us how far we’ve fallen since 1992
Remember when violence against women was this lo-fi?
Path to Thalamus explores the tragedy of a comatose mind
Few things seem more maddening than being trapped inside your own mind. As revealed on an episode of Radiolab a few years back, coma patients often aren’t left in just blank unconscious like we imagine them to be. In the case of Emilie Gossiaux, who suffered a deadly collision with an 18-wheeler, sh
New life-like avatars could leave some models out of a job
Sure, being a supermodel might not sound like the worst job ever. In the 90’s, Linda Evangelista famously said that she wouldn’t even get out of bed for less than $10,000. But behind every glamorous photo shoot littered with buckets of money, lies the all too real possibility of a short-lived career
Fall down the rabbit hole of distress that is ALFA-ARKIV
Please don’t put me on some watch-list, Russia and/or NSA.
Computer programmed to write fables reveals storytelling is, like, really hard
Or, “Notes From a Bitter Human Writer.”
80 Days is the alternate-reality, anti-colonialism adventure we all deserve
Also, robot camels.
In the sci-fi mystery game Cloud Chamber, your co-op partner is the entire internet
Found footage style storytelling like Blair Witch Project compels horror movie audiences for obvious reasons. Unlike regular film experiences, found footage supposedly has no author. With no one telling the story, the audience almost begins to feel as though they themselves are the ones responsible
In this game, firearms are all the magic you’ll need
At first glance of Aegis Defenders, with its robed teen hero and wizened old man duo, you may think, “Wow, what a beautiful 16-bit fantasy game!” On one account, you’d be right. This game has an undeniably gorgeous, hand painted art style that redefines what 16-bit is capable of. But on the other yo
What do we mean when we call someone a booth babe?
The answer isn’t quite as simple as we think.
Grand Theft Auto 5 characters as found art
GTA comes alive.
How virtual reality could take surrealism to the next level
Imagine tripping up (down?) Escher’s stairs.
Shame and guilt are on display with the upcoming Gods Will Be Watching
Moral masochists welcome.
The Long Dark’s new trailer is ice cold
Back in February, we showed you some gorgeous screenshots and officially labeled The Long Dark “a game we give a shit about.” Now, that may not sound like a lot. But when we say we “give a shit” about a game, what we mean is “we think this game has the potential to be something great and meaningful.
Power-drunk Kickstarter users fart out anti-games
Go home, everyone, you’re drunk.