From a Paris Review interview with poet Cathy Park Hong: The frontier is always the border of something, virgin territory where we can build new worlds, remake ourselves; always there’s this obsession with remaking ourselves. So to dream of the frontier is also to desire immortality. But there is no
Hey guys! Welcome to the Rap Map, where we talk to rappers from every region of the world (North America is the whole world, right? Cool.) about their favorite videogames. We’re starting with the South, and first up, we’ve got SL Jones. SL Jones is a rapper from Little Rock, AK, who in the past has
Why yes, that is the home screen to NBA Jam that you’re looking at. There are probably a hundred more title screens of popular 16-bit games over at Title Scream, all available in beautiful animated .gif form. It’s hard to tell why this website exists, other than that somebody thought it was a cool i
Above is a recent tweet by fuzz-punker/noted marijuana enthusiast Nathan Williams, the driving force behind the band Wavves. He’s more or less remaking the game Paperboy, and if the screen shot is any indication, foregrounding the game’s trippiest elements. Should be interesting if nothing else, and
Academic, artist and Kill Screen contributor Pippin Barr has posted a new game on his site. Called Trolley Problem, it’s based on the ethics conundrum in which you have to decide which people are killed and which are spared by an out-of-control trolley. If you’re not familiar with the problem, this
The New York Times has a lovely infographic detailing the 317 Apple patents in which the late Steve Jobs had a hand-from the iPod to the glass staircases in Apple Stores. Only nine Microsoft patents carry the name of Bill Gates, a co-founder of the company who was its chief executive for more than t