What’s better than HD? Try a 12K monitor
4K may be the immediate future, but let’s imagine what 12K might be.
Sub Rosa wants you to be the worst person you could possibly be
Cryptic Sea’s upcoming shooter is described by the developers as “about tense deals, double-crosses and car chases.” Car chases and gunplay have been done to death, but what’s this about double-crossing? Less of a shooter and more of a corporate warfare simulator, the game encourages you to be an al
Gabriel Knight’s 20th anniversary edition is a shrine to its father
Jane Jensen’s classic, just like you remember it.
Meet Voltage, the Japanese dating sim company your girlfriend’s been cheating on you with
A Japanese dating sim company tells us what it’s like to romance women from around the globe.
Vib-Ribbon is a love letter to obsolete technology
The progenitor of the music game, crystallized.
Luna is the corrective to our long history of portraying owls as angry birds
Won’t someone just think of the owls?
Life actually does flash before your eyes in Close Your
Blink and you’ll miss it.
The belly of the whale: an early preview of Old City: Leviathan
Mankind swallowed up by its own arrogance.
The forces of interaction are conspiring to make museums more engaging
Meet the new generation of museums.
Fantasy Life romanticizes the small things
In the end, though? Dragons.
We talk videogames with tech pioneer Stewart Butterfield
The founder of Flickr and Slack discusses the nature of play.
The Sailor’s Dream is wistful and Mystful and out next week
She sells seashells by the appstore.
The Black Fall drops you into the desolate world of a communist machine
In the post-industrial, post-human world of The Black Fall, everyone is an enemy.
Ico gets eco in the first trailer for Submerged
Submerged explores a vaguely serene, post-apocalyptic world that is, well, submerged, thanks to global warming, melting icecaps, and poorly constructed window air conditioner units. We’ve been tracking it for awhile, through screenshots and Vines, and now the Australian studio Uppercut Games has rel
The moody, stylish cyber-noir The Last Night is becoming a full game
Brothers Tim and Adrien Soret produced The Last Night for a cyberpunk game jam earlier this year, and it immediately turned heads. Brief, allusive, and massively confident, the game pulls from the most visually assertive visions of cyberpunk (Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell) and tells a story of th
Sympathy for the Goblin: A review of Styx: Master of Shadows
Show them the meaning of fear.
With money comes tragedy in idle game Exoptable Money
Mo’ money, mo’ problems is the lesson of this idle game.
The Long Dark will turn any apartment into frozen, lifeless hellscape
Freeze to death without even leaving the house.
Hatsune Miku is here to destroy everything you love (and hate) about pop stardom
Pop’s uncanny valley makes her way to the States.
Scientists are trying to make robots that can feel things
The use of robots is widespread throughout society: in medicine, combat, warehouses and factories. However, one limitation is holding them back from advancing into other industries: a lack of touch. Human touch is complex and highly sensitive, sensitive enough to detect textures on a nanoscale level
This ambient toy aids appreciation of Manfred Mohr’s computer art
Do not fear the hypercube.
Sexting with robots with Kara Stone
The Medication Meditation creator makes the personal interactive.
Alex Harvey’s genre-bending, game-destroying take on Burroughs
Sharing headspace with a maniac.
You’ve defended towers, now defend your gross internal organs
It’s not until you fall sick that you appreciate good health. You enter a state of hyper-sensitivity, suddenly realizing the labor of your every action, every movement, and every breath. Sometimes, when ill, I sit up in bed to fully concentrate my newfound awareness of the coiling and squelching of