Learn to fear deadlines in this snarky journalist simulator
When the news hits hard, you gotta hit hard back. Stop the press! The Coop Times is an exercise in ridiculous free-writing.
Off-Peak splits the difference between a videogame and a mood board
Where Coltrane and Rinse Dream collide.
The trailer for Wolfenstein: The Old Blood goes full nazisploitation movie
More of everyone’s favorite knuckle-dragging Nazi killer, BJ Blazkowicz.
Belladonna is a gothic tale of queer love
The bane of female-female relationships? The male ego.
Dämmerung muses on the rationale of government torture practices
You may remember that the US Senate intelligence committee released a report on secret CIA torture practices last year. It spanned hundreds of pages and concerned the seven years after the 9/11 terror attacks. The felling of the World Trade Center, and the Bush-era invasion of Iraq, was presumably u
Metamorphabet is proof my daughter is growing up in the future
And that’s probably okay. I think?
Paradise Never tackles the endless cycle of French revolution
Live. Die. Repeat.
Look, but don’t touch, in Kirby’s claymation Rainbow Curse
One of the most purely abstract videogame protagonists gets tangible, sorta.
Our annual Two5six conference is back May 15-17
Tell your assistant to clear your schedule.
Face darkness in the jazz-noir horror of White Night right now
“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.” – J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit What do you imagine waiting for you, out there in the dark? Perhaps an in
Givling: The game for the student debt generation
Contests create strange incentives.
Rural America’s broken home to get a striking videogame
The epicenter of beauty and abuse.
The rise of slow gaming, our cultural antidote to Angry Birds
Taking time to mull transforms how we play.
Oxenfree is part teen drama, part terrifying ghost story
Night School announces adventure game Oxenfree
The real question with VR: What happens if we can’t get out?
Sleep no more.
Drone journalism is here, and it demands a question of ethics
What don’t you have the right to see?
Sea of Solitude finds beauty in depicting loneliness
“The vision, in a nutshell, is to let players experience different types of loneliness. But all in a playful way,” says Cornelia Geppert of Jo-Mei Games. And that’s about all I could get out of her at this point. It’s not a lot, but it hardly matters once you’ve seen what Geppert and her team have d
In space, everyone can hear you sing along
The Universe is a Small Hat blurs the line between audience and performer.
Three beautiful, upcoming medieval fantasy games to gawp at
This past week has been a treasure trove of early looks at some really pretty, really difficult, and really secretive fantasy videogames. Each one is worth noting in its own respect, but since they’re early looks, not a whole lot of information is out there to discuss. So instead, we’ll do a round u
Life Is Strange posts the first Instagram noir
Become a teen, or someone’s idea of one, in Square’s episodic adventure.
How No Man’s Sky paints 18 quintillion worlds with an algorithmic brush
“Funnel them into a box of ‘maths’.”
The HTC Vive may bring virtual reality to the mainstream
We seem to be in the year prior to the blade falling on the future of virtual reality once again. Either it will tumble back into its pit as it did in the late ’90s, or we’ll see it soar from the cusp it has been riding for the past couple of years and into our everyday lives. There’s too much ridin
Experience the powerless, daily drudge of being street harassed in Stasis
To men, street harassment is like a game. To women, it’s humiliation. Still think street harassment isn’t that bad? Then play this game.
The Order: 1886: Whitechapel, Red Barrels
A world—a city—that deserves more
Beat business-savvy hipsters at their own game, or die trying
They Live’s attack on commercialism updated for today