Waking up in a dream: Rememoried’s creator on switching up the "walking simulator"
Remembering dreams. Dreaming memories.
The material world of Mason Lindroth
Mason Lindroth has been building up to Hylics for over a year. It’s his biggest project to date, and along the way he’s been breaking off bits of it here and there, releasing them as smaller games. If you’re familiar with his work, you can recognize the ambulant skulls—coppery brain cases hoisted on
Playing with yourself in Guild of Dungeoneering
Guild of Dungeoneering cutely recreates tabletop roleplaying.
Mondrian explores the crossover of a certain Dutch painter and videogame art
All art is, to an extent, the act of throwing your ideas at a canvas and seeing what sticks. In the case of Lantana Games’ Mondrian — Abstraction in Beauty, which is scheduled to launch in August, that description is simply more literal than it is figurative. Mondrian is a classic block breaking gam
Return to Hell: Dante’s Inferno Revisited
Dante would’ve turned 750 this summer. The obvious question: which games would he have played?
You might be playing god in Crest but most of your people don’t care
“Did god shape mankind, or did mankind shape God?” asks Eat Create Sleep, the developers of Crest, in their Steam description for the game. Crest is a god game with a twist: your followers have free will and don’t always give a shit about what you have to say. Rather than having complete (sometimes
Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon will update Gothic castles for the videogame age
Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon has a title that would probably be accepted as part of the Castlevania series (which includes Legacy of Darkness, Circle of the Moon, and Curse of Darkness for starters). This is probably not a mistake. Consider that Rite of the Shrouded Moon, as often with Castleva
Virtual Light: Exploring In-Game Photography And Photo History
How to have a conversation about in-game photography and not be an idiot about it.
An eating disorder support group gives women in games more "realistic" body shapes
It’s no secret that media’s treatment of female bodies is all around terrible. But for videogames and other animated media, the idealizing of women’s bodies presents some uniquely awkward issues (have you seen the breast physics?) For example: according to the 2013 Game Developer Magazine survey, on
Road to Gehenna is the harrowing of an online hell
It’s the New Testament to The Talos Principle’s Old Testament.
Muse answers the question: What if John Lennon helped create Earthbound?
Announced at Kyoto’s Bitsummit 2015, Muse: Together is the New Alone is the latest from Pixeljunk Eden art/music director Baiyon. Developed and published by Pygmy Studio, Muse seeks to take players out of this world with its own unique spin on an unrequited love story. Muse takes notes from Zelda II
Hey New Yorkers, come play videogames with us
We’re taking over the Ace Hotel again, and it will be radical.
Pixels is the worst
The most old-school thing in PIXELS is the misogyny.
Buckle up: Absolute Drift is bending the built environment to a car’s will
Your car is not supposed to go sideways. If it has, you’re in trouble. This is but one of the reasons the expression “going sideways” refers to a breakdown. But in the grand tradition of things being so wrong that they are right, there’s drifting. It’s a motorsport practice that embraces oversteer t
Ico’s secret language and the scenes you never got to see
Yorda isn’t as much of a pushover as we may have thought.
Specimen wants to give you the color perception skills of a veteran painter
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Specimen (iOS) BY PepRally If your passion involves mixing paint to attain specific tones, then Specimen should come easy to you. The game involves picking out the floating blob of color (in
Below’s creative director on procedural generation, making soup, and spelunking
“Delicate and small and precious but also complex and deep and crazy and brutal and dark and awful.”
Cultivate a meditative bonsai garden in your pocket with Prune
We have a lot to thank trees for. Aside from—you know—letting us breathe and all, science also tells us that cultivating plant life can actually boost your serotonin (like an antidepressant) and your immune system. Permaculturists call it the “harvest high,” known to both quell anxiety and build a s
What We’ve Lost: Nintendo In Iwata’s Words
The man who gave us our first real glimpse behind Nintendo’s iron curtain.
Evo 2015’s comebacks, or the growing significance of the crowd in eSports
The latest Evolution Championship Series (Evo) had plenty of action and drama to fill the weekend. Intense fights were had, hugs were given, tears were shed, and some shirts even came off. One of the highlights of the event, though, was a particularly daring comeback during a Killer Instinct match b
Capturing the eccentricity of The Grand Budapest Hotel in a videogame adaptation
The tangible world of The Grand Budapest Hotel becomes interactive.
Sanctuary is what its name promises, only with more synths and beauty
“Why are you treading on the grass, you dummy?” I had that thought at least a dozen times while playing Sanctuary, Connor Sherlock’s synth-y, first-person walking simulator. There are dirt paths to walk on but much of the ground is covered by grass. Sometimes the shortest path to wherever you’re go
Playtime with TimePlay, the horrible pre-movie advertising game
How movie ads have merged with games.
Arm wrestle burly fish in this adaptation of Hemingway’s philosophy of manhood
If you’ve never read Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea there is now an abridged version in which you arm wrestle a marlin. It’s a videogame with the superb title of The Old Man Club, which not only refers back to the novel’s title, but may also allude to a critique of those who h