The dream of the 80s is alive in VR
Console cowboys welcome.
Futuridium is a surprisingly Kubrickian take on intergalactic combat
Here’s one space war you can’t win.
A new game tackles The Secret, the Oprah-approved Satanist manifesto of our time
Will yourself to happy.
I Am Dolphin is a videogame about exactly what it sounds like
No, really, it is.
Explore the vibrant ghetto of 1980’s Brooklyn with Living Los Sures
Walk through Williamsburg when it was a home for the disenfranchised in the 1980’s.
Here are a couple of lovely, surreal GearVR games to float through
Balthazar Auxietre, creative director and CEO of Innerspace VR, has emphasized his focus on having a user be able to “feel the space” around them, a sense of spatial presence that he says is the “magic” of virtual reality. Two of Innerspace’s current projects, The Fifth Sleep and The Cave, were demo
Shadow of Mordor shines, despite its Tolkien skin
Let the nemesis free.
Brother, groove with me in this VW van for a minute
Half a year ago, Brazilian animator Antonio Vicentini turned multi-instrumentalist and musical director Fernando Barba’s song “Cheiro Verde” into a psychedelic animation following the magical trip of a morphing Volkswagen Bus (sometimes referred to as the “hippie wagon”). The song has an organic sou
What can Civilization V teach us about history?
Playing around with, you know, the story of humanity.
Five games that will look great on your iPhone 6
eBay is so sure your phone will sell, if it doesn’t sell, you will receive an $100 eBay coupon.
Mecca 3D allows Muslims to make a pilgrimage using VR
The hajj is one of the Five Pillars of Islam; it demands that all able Muslims make pilgrimage to Mecca at least once before they die. That’s kind of a lot to ask, I imagine, especially if you find yourself without the means. But what other choice does a devotee have? Well, there’s Mecca 3D, an app
Here’s everything you could ever want to know about Destiny’s hair
Destiny was a beautiful game. I do not use the term lightly. In every tiny little way possible, the game was maximized for audio-visual spectacle. One of its most sumptuous details, though, was its attention on hair—which is not visible in the campaign, or in multiplayer, or on the pause screen, but
The Black Glove is like BioShock’s opium-riddled older sibling
All you need to know is that there’s a space minotaur involved.
A family of English architects is rebuilding Iraq
Nasiryah, Kut, and Kufa are reimagined from afar.
Totem’s Sound takes a cynical look at American colonialism
Digital colonialism gets a new look.
NHL 15 highlights all the problems of annual sports games
Notes from the purgatory of menus.
What TIME got wrong about The Last of Us
No photographer could capture what made Naughty Dog’s game great.
The future is not dark and awful, says this online series
How will you shape the United States of the not-so-distant future?
Impressionism goes goth in the roguelike Children of Morta
Well, this is … unexpected. Just yesterday I wrote about the influx of absurdly, lushly animated dark-fantasy pixel-art games, and here comes Children of Morta, which is like the apotheosis of the form. Its two-minute trailer starts with something I’ve not really seen before: a landscape which seems
Here’s a game that recreates the futility of finding love online
Click click click, indeed.
Gorge, a food-horror JRPG, gives videogames something to chew on
Food: apparently it’s more than just a health potion.
Shaking off the allegories of Spirits of Spring
The follow-up to Papo y Yo is of two minds.
Now seems like a good time to rewatch that 8-bit Twin Peaks intro
“…Every day, once a day, give yourself a present.”
Here sprawls Izle, which is some sort of fantasy No Man’s Sky
Look, I think No Man’s Sky looks great. I do. But I’m also a bit flabbergasted by it: I have never seen a game capture the popular imagination the way that one has. It comes up unbidden in most casual conversations I have with people about videogames. A big part of this, of course, is potential: the
Rain World explodes with more slugcat .gifs
Rain World is part of an explosion over the past few years of games that express, through their pixel art, a very personal sort of fantasy. Along with Hyper Light Drifter, Witchmarsh, The Deer God, and Titan Souls, it sees pixel art not as cute but as ready for subversion, and an excuse to lavishly