How to resist our "Buy It Now" culture
What effect does our world of immediate shopping have on our brains?
Garmoniums is the seething Rorschach test of glitch games
The subjective and collective meet in the glitchy Garmoniums.
Oblitus and the déjà videogame
Death and death and death at the gates.
Fortune’s Tavern lets you play as the unsung hero of all RPGs: the tavern keeper
The greatest challenge yet to come to an RPG: hospitality management.
See the world through a self-driving car’s map
Automatons get cool maps, too.
Finally, African fantasy is getting its own gorgeous RPG
If you were to rifle through the annals of videogame history you’d never guess that Africa is the second largest continent on the planet. There’s a distinct lack of African stories, characters, and art represented in the medium. Which is a shame when you consider how rich Africa is with history, lan
The player as artist
Videogames have the unique ability to put the audience in the driver’s seat.
Don’t call it a time-waster: Reverse the Odds may help cure cancer
A new mobile game is crowd-sourcing cancer research.
The Deer God gets lost in its own pixelated forest
Less is more.
A new exhibit asks if we’re more than just the sum of our data
“Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command,” says Ebenezer Scrooge near the end of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. That’s exactly what Karl Toomey did for the Lifelogging exhibit at the Science Gallery Dublin. In a s
The New Nintendo 3DS and the death of the screen
The final 3D videogame system is also the best.
In Direction, all breakups are nightmarish
Why doesn’t it work out?
Prowl constructs a haunting vignette out of slow, dark jazz
It’s all about soul.
Skeletal Dance Simulator is the cutest way to shake your bones
Who knew a skeleton party would be exactly what you needed today? Can’t you feel spring coming in your bones? Celebrate with Skeletal Dance Simulator.http://julmust.itch.io/skeletal-dance-simulator
A philosophical history of the "Press Start" screen
The beginning of the one-button reality.
The makers of Monument Valley want to fix your dashboard
How to gauge your interest?
Piper brings the playability of Minecraft to computer engineering
Recently, I helped (let’s be honest, mostly watched) someone build a PC for the first time. Now, I’m not exactly what you’d call a “tech-savy” person—by which I mean computers scare the living daylights out of me. They’re just so daunting: their finickiness and delicacy, the mountains of information
Valve/HTC’s Vive is the "Narnia closet stuck to your face"
Walking around in virtual reality.
The Isolation Game Jam finds inspiration in nothingness
Header photo by Horatiu Roman. /// The farm is set into a dead-end valley. It has walls composed of old grey stonework, a single tractor, sometimes there are lambs. There isn’t much else, except the endless grey beard of the sky above, its ubiquity matched only by the hay-swathed terrain below it. H
LucasArts and the rationalist tendency in videogames
The legacy of Grim Fandango is broader than you think.
Artists are using 3D scanning to create "collaborative self-portraits"
Welcome to the land of philosophical quandaries.
A road-trip game about the fiddly art of vehicle maintenance
Hac (pronounced “Hajj”) is a videogame about the worst parts of driving. Washing the mud out of the grill; changing the battery; losing the keys in the space between the door and your seat; packing suitcases and sleeping bags into a trunk that’s way too small. More than anything else, it’s concerned
Throwing trucks with your mind is possible, but it isn’t easy
It’s all about concentration.
Therefore promises "interactive philosophy," dreamy pixel art
What’s initially so captivating about Therefore is how the music and art style blends together. Composer Sergio Cuesta’s incidental piano score plays with atonality in a way that’s reminiscent of the impressionist compositions of Claude Debussy, or Erik Satie: simple and pretty, but slightly hauntin
EXPOSURE: Just your typical bullet-hell stealth game inspired by moths
A chilled-out game of predator and prey.