Sesame Street knows the way to a kid’s brain is through their funny bone
Educating children with a smile.
Beyond Eyes teases an impressionist world painted only by sound and touch
The French impressionist painter Oscar-Claude Monet, famous for exploring light and his perception of it, once remarked, “I wish I had been born blind and then suddenly gained my sight so that I could begin to paint without knowing what the objects were that I could see before me.” In effect, he wis
A closer look at Halo’s pistol, the most infamous videogame weapon of them all
“Imagine the balance implications if you could carry two of the original Halo pistols at the same time.”
Nina Freeman’s latest game confronts the inescapability of sexual assault
Freshman Year is hard to watch, but you should anyway.
Navigate the surreal, wondrous landscape of reincarnation in Vapor
In Vapor, one playthrough lasts a lifetime.
Take a seat for Last Voyage’s beautiful synthesizer space opera
There is no mystery. That is not a problem.
Dual merges digital and physical space to bring people closer
I wish I could have shown Sebastian Gosztyla’s mobile game Dual to my mother 20 years ago. Not to play it with her, she wouldn’t have allowed that, but to see how she configured it in the rules she had for me back then, when I was a child. She saw videogames as separating me from other people, as un
How memes emerge from games
The fertile shared space between humor and play.
This week’s Playlist pick: Sisyphos
The ancient Greek punishment of playing videogames.
What it means to skin a yeti (or not) in Far Cry 4
The fierce tiger vs. the noble elephant, forever.
Improve your seder with a mad, biblical Rube Goldberg contraption
And the students said, “let my contraption go!”
One of the greatest metaphysical painters gets a surreal videogame tribute
Behind the sunlit arches of amber stone and their elongated shadows, behind the marble busts poised lonesome in the air, behind the ivy-crept porticos sitting empty with umbra, there lies a self-portrait of the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. His aged quilt-like face is the last sight for you to
Sid Meier’s Starships is civilization without humanity
Firaxis nails the emptiness of space, but little else.
Women redesign female characters to show what videogames are missing out on
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a
Memories of a Broken Dimension is here to destroy everything
XRA’s brutal, brutalist glitch experiment is more unsettling by the day.
HelixDX turns your many videogame deaths into a rhythmic dance
What if game worlds were governed by the experience of music rather than the fear of death?
Fragile Soft Machines wants to know how you deal with hardship
It’s unusual to see butterflies used as a metaphor for tragedy. Within the framework of the English language at least, they’ve enjoyed being symbols for beauty, freedom, and transformation—the English poet John Clare’s “lovely insect.” Perhaps the closest to an inversion we have to that established
Playing loud in quiet spaces
Arcades are moving out of America’s deteriorating shopping malls and into its libraries.
Blind people experience classic paintings for the first time due to 3D printing
Have you experienced the benefits of texture and braille?
Mario Party 10 takes a few steps into the real world
Nintendo’s boardgame aspirations have never been more tangible.
Videogames and electronic music: still the best thing
Michna and Heathered Pearls will be spinning at Two5six’s public arcade.
A surreal bartending sim plays with the unspoken rituals of nightlife culture
Good for the spirit.
PACAPONG’s chaotic arcade game mash-up reflects our remix culture
Part of me wishes that Dick Poelen had gone further. His Mini Ludum Dare #68 game jam entry PACAPONG comprises four classic arcade games: Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Pong, and Donkey Kong. But why stop there? The disruptive child in me begs for more and more to be added. I want this mash-up to be taken
Ming Mecca, the jazz instrument for videogame improvisation
The glitch as a building block.
Fashion your own sublime diorama of impossible architecture in Brick Blocks
Gravity is the biggest downer in architecture and urban planning, so why not just do away with it? This, admittedly, is not advice that professionals should heed. But what if you just want to have a little bit of fun designing a structure that has no practical use? For moments like that, there’s Osk