Shakescraft hopes to reconstruct the playwright’s demolished home with videogames Can Minecraft help us restore Shakespeare demolished home? How Minecraft can help complete the most significant Shakespearean restoration project ever A Shakespearean restoration project turns to Minecraft to help r
When 3D spaces were popularized in videogames it led to a new kind of energy bubbling up through creative pores. Those who worked within the medium had a whole new avenue to explore—all this extra space, and what to do with it? No longer did illusions have be figured out, but actual working 3D space
Videogames help humanity reach its hoverboard dreams You can’t hoverboard in real life, but at least you can hoverboard in this videogame Listen to house music, become the hoverboard and the future
Electropop’s master illusionist to spin at Two5six Drink, play, and dance at Kill Screen’s free Two5six arcade Matthew Dear will bear his soul at Kill Screen’s Two5six arcade The Two5six festival includes an arcade for all senses
Jason Rohrer is weird with money. Previously, he gave away $3,000 to players of his last game, The Castle Doctrine. You’d think him affluent with a gesture like that, but two years before that he told Paste how his family lived off $14,000 a year while somehow earning less than that. Now, I’m sure w
You’re not against free speech, are you? This interpretive trap awaits anyone attempting to publicly wrangle the legacy of Charlie Hebdo. In late April, the PEN American Center announced that its literary gala would honor the French satirical newspaper. In response, a series of authors including Jun
In the wild west, anything can get you killed, even a game of rock-paper-scissors The classic western standoff meets rock-paper-scissors Become the deadliest hands in all the west in The Rock The Paper and The Scissors
Two5six, our annual conference and festival, is a three-day celebration of a life well-played. If you haven’t been to Two5six before, you still have several days to buy a ticket for our conference and other events. The final schedule is now available for our conference next Saturday, May 16th. You c
I remember being eight-years-old and having a playground debate as to how Jamiroquai’s music video to the song “Virtual Insanity” was made. We were kids, so obviously one of the suggestions was that it was magic. Another said it was computer graphics. But the most plausible was that the floors were
The metaphor is so obvious that explaining it feels wasteful. Drones capture footage of ghost towns: drones and death, drones and abandonment, drones and societal disintegration. Sadly, we’ve seen this morbid movie before. drones remain macabre vehicles. Well, not exactly this movie. Mic’s Max Plen
Who needs words when you can have a keyboard that only dispenses Taylor Swift quotes? Tay Text has the Taylor Swift quote for every occasion, with the possible exception of natural disasters.
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. DOES NOT COMMUTE (iOS, ANDROID) BY MEDIOCRE AB At a busy crossroads in a 1970s suburb it is your task to drive every car at once. You steer one auto-accelerating vehicle to its destination,
Dissolve’s video essay highlights the ridiculousness of rating systems Why are rating systems so incredibly arbitrary? A cross analysis of the film and videogame industry’s bizarre rating systems
