Lucas Pope finds his procedural zen
The follow-up to Papers, Please is looking lovely and decidedly lo-fi.
Lauren McCarthy takes on Silicon Valley optimism
What a kingdom of apps and tech obsession hath wrought.
Watch the trailer for a game that takes "life hack" pretty literally
Consider me else { excited() }. Or whatever.
Studio Oleomingus wants to take us to an impossible Somewhere
A collection of shorts, fragments of a mirror.
This week’s playlist has arrived
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. HELIX (iOS) BY MICHAEL BROUGH This shoot-’em-up is less of a bullet hell and more of a thumb ballet. Arc your preferred digit in graceful concentric circles around jellyfish and moonrocks to m
Impact Winter is like The Thing as done by Pixar
Adorable floating robot friend, horrible deadly frozen wasteland.
Survive the oceanic abyss in Seashine
The deep sea is a tough place for a lonesome, squishy little jelly fish.
Feed a hungry skeleton, fall in love in Breakfast at Cemetery
A tale of life, love, and death.
Remaking the videogame canon with Rachel Weil
Or: the rebirth of pink.
A fresh hell from the creator of Alone in the Dark
#2DARK4ME #2DARK4U2?
Nina Freeman’s anime sex quest
Cosplaying with the creator of how do you Do It?
Leave ’em Laughing wants to let you experience the existential terror of stand-up comedy
What would you do for a laugh?
Slam City Oracles is about two teen girls f*cking sh*t up
Ground-pounding a new future.
Fear the pyramid with CHYRZA’s Twilight Zone-style horror
If you look beyond the sillier plots of classic TV series The Twilight Zone (such as Dennis Hopper getting leadership lessons from a not-dead-actually Adolf Hitler) then you can find a distinct type of timeless horror. It’s not the shock-gore or psychotic killer chases of schlocky horror films and c
The demo of Octopus City Blues is both Kafkaesque and charming
And filled with puns.
Mario Von Rickenbach’s games are just that: games
Murdering style with the creator of Drei.
The Whiteness Project and why we should listen to white people talk about race
Whiteness does not exist in a vacuum. Listening to white people talk about race may be hard to swallow, but it’s important.
The pitch-black plaguescapes of Orihaus
Where Riven, witchhouse, and architecture meet.
Watch a crowd of digital people cheerfully run into a giant metal propeller
Digital artist Dave Fothergill has created a cheery glimpse into hell this Monday morning. Utilizing the 3D animation software Maya, he’s created a video of what happens when a crowd breaks out into a run, the only issue being that there is an enormous metal propeller in their way. You can guess wha
Sky Burial proves that drones can be macabre even when they aren’t deadly
A virtual—and literal—death of the artist.
Kyle Reimergartin is still hungry
Will the Fjords creator ever get his fill?
Realize the compositional beauty of Rachmaninoff in Zero Age
I suppose you’ve heard that classical music apparently acts as a complementary aid to learning. It’s the type of reported notion that causes pregnant mothers to waddle around the house, a pair of headphones stretched around their baby-bloated bellies, all in order to blast Beethoven foetus-side thro
Kill Screen presents The Emergents
Ten designers pushing videogames forward.
Break free from the boundaries of traffic symbols in the 2D platformer Sign Motion
There is life outside your yellow diamond-shaped world.
One of the best design agencies in the world just reinvented chess
A set for the ages.