Plants vs. Plants
In PopCap’s tower defense game, lively plants defeat a zombie horde. We asked a horticulture expert how real plants grapple with nature in uncannily similar ways.
Jamin Warren
Digital books have no covers to tell their stories, so what about digital games?
The Atlantic muses that the Kindle has killed the idea of the book cover. While the device has enabled all types of new activities (social annotations, lightness of being, euphoria), the lack of cover is not without metaphorical weight: A digital book has no cover. There’s no paper to be bound up wi
Does our culture need better monsters?
Desiree Brown sat down with author Brian McGreevy to talk about his new novel Hemlock Grove, a modern twist on the vampire and werewolf genre. What ensues is a rather strange conversation about the nature of fear and the modern occult, but he does offer a twist on what a monster or a villain could o
Classic Calvino
When in doubt, look to Italo Calvino’s systematic writings about literature and the imagination. We use one of his essays to speculate on the creation of a gaming canon.
PAUSE: A New York-based visual artists turns old computers into a magic hour sunset.
New York-based visual artist Sandy Smith constructed this sunset from donated computers. [Via Pulmonaire]