The next great video game system may be Twitter
Bots are playing with us and each other.
The Coral Cave’s dreamy, watercolor world inspires childhood fantasy
A beautiful game set in Japan’s Okinawa archipelago.
A zine imagines the awesome possibilities of diverse female fighting characters
Crab-women, monster girls, mystic ladies.
Hidetaka Miyazaki’s transcendent quest for beauty in Bloodborne
The obsessions of an artist.
Ping-Pong Go Round brings sport to the conference table
A new Ping-pong table design is one of many ways Forrest Gump could have been improved.
Can virtual reality make us more empathetic?
Scientists are learning that changing bodies changes minds.
This colorful virtual reality game is played with a cushion controller
Static Lagoon is a game you play with your butt. It’s not as crude as that makes it sound. But it is as capricious as a game of Simon Says. “Sit,” its suave black font commands. And so you do. “Stand and keep standing” it then demands. Moments later: “Sit” appears once again. And then, much to the l
A video game convention for the LGBT community widens its scope
GX3 proclaims that “everyone games.”
The latest place you can explore dungeons? A deck of cards
Aliceffekt and John Eternal release a game they made during Train Jam 2015.
This week’s Playlist pick: TouchTone
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. TOUCHTONE (iOS) BY MIKENGREG Greg Wohlwend and Mike Boxleiter are outraged at the erosion of privacy in the post-Snowden era. But rather than stepping up to a soapbox to rant about it, they
The videogame trying to change how we treat the homeless
See through their eyes. Feel the dejection.
Escape your troubles and reach serenity with Breath of Light
If you have difficulty meditating, try this game. Stressed? You need Breath of Light to send you some good vibes.
Parallax hopes you’re into binary code
A case of minimalism gone astray.
Everyone is Mondrian. Nobody is Mondrian. Your Computer Is Mondrian.
Can code make art?
Enter the Gungeon stands out in a crowded field
How many roguelike shooters do we need? One more.
All the hilarity and horror of ’80s slasher movies turned into a videogame
Don’t forget to scream.
You can only play this upcoming iOS game if you believe in it
When Jamaican artist Robert Morrison Jnr. talks about waiting he is really talking about faith. It’s not necessarily a religious practice that he refers to either, more of a universal concept, a feature of the human condition. “I think our faith is constantly tested in our daily lives,” Morrison say
The glorious return of Xenoblade Chronicles, which is as good a JRPG as any
The re-rebirth of the game that will not die.
Think you’re bad at karaoke? Wait until you hear this computer mash-up
Who wouldn’t you want to try it?
A card game about drone strikes makes you comfortably numb
Bycatch forces a strange sort of empathy.
The latest track blowing up clubs is a surprisingly heavy remix of a Zelda song
Everyone’s freaking out over this Zelda x Juicy J remix and we totally get why.
Tumbling and twitching in Aaru’s Awakening
In a battle of the gods, the spoils for mortals are few
Could videogames be a bit more childlike? A Two5six preview.
Toca Boca’s Willow Mellbratt is an expert on play.
A videogame too destructive to be shown in public
Is DonDonDonDon a video drinking game? Or a drinking videogame?
Hotline Miami 2 force-feeds you sleaze
The one that goes all the way.