Oculus’ new movie studio is making André Bazin’s dreams come true
Oculus announces their new production lab, Story Studio, for VR films.
Get yours as a crooked cop in This Is the Police
Bureaucracy in the waning days of a cop’s career.
The unfriendly interfaces of subway systems
Apple, free-to-play games, and subway kiosks shape your user experience.
Elite: Dangerous’ cosmic vision falls somewhere between a rock and a marketplace
A sci-fi game that can’t imagine beyond the present.
Michael Mann: cinema’s glitch auteur
“Am I being tangible enough for you?”
Playlist: the papercraft classic Yet It Moves comes to iOS
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. YET IT MOVES (IOS, MAC, PC, LINUX) BY BROKEN RULES You might call Yet It Moves a sidescroller, but that would be doing the game a grand disservice. Yes, you can only work in two dimensions,
Pplkpr: the app that decides who you’re hanging out with
IF TITLE IS TOO SNARKY: Pplkpr: the app that tells you which relationship you should keep and delete OR This app that manages your relationships could be your next best friend. Do you secretly hate most people? Well, finally, there’s an app for that. See how your interpersonal relationships stack
Hide-and-seek can be so much better inside videogames
This innocent, empty office is actually filled with danger.
Inside the programming tool designed to get more girls into coding
If Instagram is buying a sweater, Vidcode is learning to knit.
Steam’s economist now sits atop a steaming pile of Greek debt
Money money money, online and off
Tell your boss to quietly f*ck off with this LED indicator
Latvian design firm GreyNut has recently launched their attempted solution to workplace interruption problems, Luxafor, on Kickstarter. The LED connects to a computer via USB or Bluetooth and displays your status with a green or an uninviting red light. It can be set manually or automatically throug
Beeswing explores what it means to go home again, with mixed results
A game as lovely as it is cloying.
A look back at the doomed virtual reality boom of the 90s
“Virtuality” and a failure to launch.
Tattoos, abstracted into data and blasted onto a canvas
In 1954, a small group of Japanese artists called the Gutai (Embodiment) group became interested in revealing the inner qualities of the materials they used in their art through performance. In one piece, Akira Kanayama used a remote controlled car to spread paint on a canvas. In another, Kazuo Shir
Will the upcoming Life is Strange be the coming-of-age story millennials deserve?
Teen girls continue to rule gaming like never before, the latest entry coming in the form of the soon-to-be-released episodic adventure called Life is Strange. Created by Dontnod, the same team behind the promising yet ultimately conflicted Remember Me, this new game tackles coming-of-age in the mil
India’s "living bridges" evoke the moss-covered ruins of Dark Souls
Hopefully things pan out a bit better for the residents of Meghalaya than Lordran.
The everyday lives of videogame characters
A new type of game explores the aesthetic of the mundane.
Republique’s third episode evokes the great "expanded universes" of TV sci-fi
Camouflaj lays the breadcrumbs.
Listen to John Carpenter’s Lost Themes now
The importance of John Carpenter’s first decade or so of filmmaking is hard to overstate, particularly to fans of genre films. With laser-like precision in editing and pacing, he created definitive action (Assault on Precinct 13), dystopian (Escape from New York), slasher (Halloween), horror (The Th
The destructive marriage of videogames and relationships
Driving through the ruins of a romance.
In Children of Morta, the family that fights evil together stays together
Narrative comes to the roguelike in Children of Morta.
Techno Tarot offers divination on-the-go
You know, in case your psychic’s not available.
Dead End Thrills talks screenshots and art
A peek into the intersection of ownership, art, and the digital world.
Uncover the hidden world of a grotesque peep show in Ghost Coin
“A ghost world, to us, is all about this ambiguity between what’s there and what’s not.”
What if music controlled a videogame instead of the player?
Perhaps videogames could be more like videos than games.