Games could learn a thing or two from confessional poetry’s history
How confessional gaming is slowly growing a presence.
And The Moment Is Gone reveals the impossibility of human relationships
This Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind inspired game shows the sublime futility of human relationships.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is, thankfully, a bit grossed out by war
Holding square will get you nowhere.
Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic gets demade into an NES game
A digression about digressions.
The less you know about The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo, the better
‘Scuse us while we bury this lede.
All those vacant stores in shopping malls are being turned in data centers
Malls and department stores both have generous amounts of space, so with many vacancies still left unfilled after the recession, there’s a need to find replacement entities that can make efficient use of of the ample room. An answer to this problem is to buy the space and fill it up with servers, co
The unexpected charms of Pokémon Art Academy
You grow up, but you never leave.
A game that lets you endure the endless labor of Sisyphus
The classic metaphor for futility … on the go!
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is a model for preserving videogame history
We’re surprised, too.
M.C. Escher would approve of the Monument Valley expansion
Eight more chapters in a story that goes nowhere.
Babies are horrifying. Here is a game about them
Alternatively: the horror of waiting for Windows ’95 to start up.
Bycatch smartly distills drone warfare into a card game
This season of Homeland opened with a botched drone strike, and six episodes later teetered on a moment where a drone nearly became an instrument of revenge. Granted, Homeland is about one Jason-masked murder rampage from 24 territory, but the show usually mirrors one actual political concern per se
Fantastic Witch Collective, the game bringing Saturday morning cartoons to RPGs
Everyone needs a good laugh on a saturday morning. Why not videogames? Join the Fantastic Witch Collective to become a badass witch who owns the town by helping out.
The Sailor’s Dream is a labyrinth, an instrument, a place
Simogo’s latest defies categorization.
Beyond Earth envisions a more "realistic" future, but we may not want to live there
In which we humans fumble through the cosmos.
Yes, My Grace is the historically accurate king simulator about sitting on your ass and ruling
You’re basically restaurant managing, but with people’s lives. Yes Your Grace, in which you realize being Stannis Baratheon is the most thankless job ever.
Wander the musical wastelands of your final days
A concept album in voxels.
Call of Duty doesn’t understand grief, but then, who does?
Press F to lose dignity.
The Great Emoticon turns old AIM conversations into a Zelda game
If the faces of the AOL Instant Messenger conversations of yore were to attain sentience and corporeal forms, the design of the post-apocalyptic world of The Great Emoticon is arguably what that reality would look like. The trailer released by developer Hit That Switch last week looks to be another
Passing the time in This War of Mine
A harrowing game of war charts out a life of mundanity.
Another week, another Playlist roundup
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. WOAH DAVE! (iOS, PC/MAC, ANDROID, NINTENDO 3DS, PS4 & PS VITA) BY CHOICE PROVISIONS Meet Dave. Our hero is fending off aliens by throwing their eggs and glowing skulls. One day, he … well, tha
This videogame shows the beauty of disregarding photorealism
The only thing better than realism is surrealism.
When You’re Gone, the game about breakup-purgatory
Or as we like to call it, Assassin’s Creed: The Breakup.
This new art exhibit puts a human face on hard steel
The Barbican Centre, located on Silk Street in the City of London, is one of the largest performing arts centers in Europe. (The smallest is Captain Franko’s Fantabulous Flea Circus in Covent Garden.) Until January 11th, 2015, the venue is hosting an exhibit called “Constructing Worlds: Photography
The timely optimism of In Real Life
How Cory Doctorow’s graphic novel ended up being more relevant than it intended.