Journey’s greatest gift to videogames was telling us all to shut up
Journey returns to PS4, and with it, the gift of quiet
The Last of Us soundtrack is getting the beautiful vinyl LP it always needed
“Whoa. Look at this place!” Ellie says as you walk through the doorway, into an old record store. You’re on your way to Bill’s hideout and this abandoned town is the first place that lets you truly grasp Ellie’s alienation from our own world. It’s not that she just doesn’t listen to records. She’s n
The Iñupiat’s voice in videogames continues with Never Alone’s upcoming DLC
Foxtales takes Nuna and Fox on a nautical journey up the Noatak River.
FIFA 16 is slowly discovering the existence of women’s soccer
Alex Morgan will be the first woman to appear on a FIFA cover.
Videogame based on Moby Dick lets you wreak havoc as the white whale
Header image: Poster for 1976 theatrical re-release of Moby Dick. /// After Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, the Pequod, has been destroyed by the white whale he’s been hunting across the globe in the final scenes of Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick, he says the following: “Towards thee I roll
Canada’s Manifest Destiny: the game
Videogames are just as powerful at distorting history as preserving it.
Profiles of the Forgotten is "a videogame within a movie"
“Have you ever loved someone so much, that you could step out of time?” These are the words that introduce Profiles of the Forgotten, a project that lies somewhere between a traditional game and a film. The first project by Los Angeles developer Pablo Leon-Luna, Profiles of the Forgotten is describe
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and a More Human Kind of Apocalypse
We talk to Dan Pinchbeck about his upcoming jaunt through the apocalypse.
Stephen Colbert’s weird Twine game may double as a map to late night comedy
Letterman to the left, Corden to the right, Colbert seems to be stuck in the middle.
Point-and-click your way through the rotting aftermath of a divorce
“It’s about divorce,” reads Gary Butterfield’s blunt description of his short-story-turned-videogame Early Frost Warning. You know it’s going to be a glum playthrough, but 10 minutes in and you’re thinking: c’mon Horace, a broken boy in your bed and now your face is all red and balding? Sheesh, man,
Knee Deep aims for southern-fried surrealism
Knee Deep proves that surrealism isn’t easy.
This procedurally generated game captures the lurid rituals of a concert
Everyone shuffles in, somehow looking both non-committal and excited. The space is tight-knight, vaguely dingy, and hot from all the breaths and bodies. People are talking, but not real talk—at most, small talk, to diffuse the tension of waiting. Then, the lights go black and everything stops for on
Killing Lara Croft
Our 20-year obsession with the Tomb Raider’s demise
Clouds Below lets you unfurl your wings and soar over beautiful vistas
It’s not easy to jump out of a plane, y’know? I will do it for the first time in approximately two weeks from 7,000 feet in the air. I might be shitting myself. But worse is all the prep up until that moment—about 30 seconds of freefall—as it’s a lot of hassle. I’ve had to join the British Parachute
Dropsy, the clown game, is still decidedly horrifying and loveable
Remember Dropsy, everyone’s favorite clown/nightmare fuel? For those who don’t remember, Dropsy first began as a good joke on the Something Awful forums in 2004 and quickly spiraled into The Creepy Clown Game That Could, with over a decades worth of tumultuous development history, including: an almo
Unmask corrupt Mexican politics with this surreal art installation
For some, it was only a matter of time before Mexico’s most infamous drug lord escaped. After being captured just last February, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman spent less than 18 months in police custody before it was discovered last weekend that he was no longer in his cell. Instead, prison security dis
In honor of Arkham Knight, we replayed the worst Batman games ever made
The Idiot Adventures of Batman and Robin.
Shrugging Off Mental Illness in Rise of the Tomb Raider
Lara Croft should be allowed to have moments of weakness.
You’ll be able to enter the fevered mind of a game developer in One Dreamer
There is currently no shortage of games. Imagine a game, any game—a small game, a weird game, a psychedelic game, whatever—and there are probably twelve versions of it online. This is great. The more the merrier. But as one processes the daily deluge of wonderful little oddities, it’s hard not to wo
Shut up and go stream Advantageous, a feminist sci-fi stunner now on Netflix
A quietly great new sci-fi film is on Netflix. You should watch it. Like, right now.
The infographics world of Metrico is being blown up for bigger screens
Metrico was released in August of last year as a PS Vita exclusive. A puzzle platformer from Dutch studio Digital Dreams, the game is set in a world of moving, living infographics. Colorful pie charts dot the landscape. Jutting line graphs become three dimensional mountains in the backdrop. Bar grap
Devastated Dreams will finally give airtime to the terror of becoming a mom
Dadification is out. Momification has only just begun.
Fragments of Him multiplies its tragedy to reflect how death affects us all
This is a complete coincidence, but a year ago—to this exact day—I reached into my gut to pull out feelings I’d forced to exist down there for a long time. Today, I’m doing the same, as I wrote about Fragments of Him then, and I’m doing the same now. It’s a first-person drama that explores how a guy
Splendor exhibits all the challenges of going from tabletop to tablet
Does a great boardgame make a great videogame? Not necessarily.
Go beyond the realms of death with Sylvio
From out of the murky depths crawls a classically weird horror game.