The videogames that saved me in EGX’s Leftfield Collection
EGX’s Leftfield Collection had filmic cuts, beautiful worlds of light, and a game about being a tree.
Virtual reality lets horror fans scare themselves in all new ways
Exploring new textures of terror.
The worldly anxieties of Sam Farmer’s Last Life
Change is coming. What are you going to do about it?
Oldboy’s legendary hallway scene, de-made as an NES game
The hallway fight scene in Oldboy is the stuff of legend. Park Chan-wook’s 2003 revenge opus featured a lot of memorable moments, but for me at least the real sticking point isn’t the holy-shit-no twist ending but the three-minute fight scene in the middle of the movie, in which Homerically beleague
New stealth game from ex-Lionhead devs features a graphical interface for the ages
Guards in stealth games are idiots. We already know this. You can fire a couple bullets into the drones of Shadow Moses Island and they’ll respond with annoyance. You can unleash hell across the Hong Kong of Deus Ex and saunter into the police station a few minutes later. This is, of course, by desi
Now you can explore 2001’s psychedelic "Star Gate" sequence
Black Hole Interior Explorer is as the title describes: awesome.
This interactive journal envisions what we’ll all be dealing with as global warming continues
Natural disasters are not more resilient than the human spirit.
Twitch is worth a billion dollars, and Pewdiepie is a force for good (no, seriously)
What the Twitch acquisition says about spectatorship, interaction and play.
Simogo further teases their cryptic Device 6 follow-up The Sailor’s Dream
How much is this? This is not much. But it’s more of the new Simogo game, so we’re into it. Today the Device 6 and Year Walk devs published a blog post that essentially says, “We’ve been quiet for awhile; the reason for this is that we’ve chosen to be quiet.” It is not, in short, illuminating. Howe
Desolate is a hand-painted journey about fighting your inner shadows
Prepare to feel alone and terrible about yourself.
The stunning, sparse NaissanceE comes to virtual reality
Limasse Five’s empty halls creep with life again.
Rooftop Cop investigates the "ritual manifestations" of police violence
“At what point does a cop become a threat to the subject they’re supposed to protect?”
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS is not a videogame-it’s a galaxy
How deep will you get sucked in?
Julian Assange and M.I.A. walk into an arcade
Who wins? Everybody.
This may be the best pixel art being made today
A life in dots.
New Vane trailer is so pretty even its dust is pretty
I never thought I’d be so interested in the dust that kicks up behind someone running. It’s kind of a throwaway. It doesn’t really have any effect on anything. It’s there and then it’s not. But there’s something about the way that Friend & Foe’s new game Vane does it that’s got me watching dust over
There’s a single attack in the new Smash Bros. that defines Nintendo’s thinking
Sweet little axe-wielding Villager.
David Roentgen was the Lebron James of designing cabinets
Look at this guy. David Roentgen was a German cabinetmaker born 270 years ago. He appears to have a powdered wig, or at least old-timey curls in his hair. Check the gold frame on his portrait, etc. There is nothing cool about David Roentgen. And yet: David Roentgen is apparently the shit, because t
At least someone’s thinking of your thumbs
Big phones are increasingly the norm. And aside from the obvious challenges of these handheld obsidian monoliths—such as “Where do I stash this thing?”—there is a more concrete problem, an issue of design: the way you hold your (pitiful, obsolete) phone now is not going to be the way you hold one of
At last, someone brave enough to make an Iron Chef videogame
The high drama of feeding yourself, in videogame form.
Two new games let us finally hang out in the Mos Eisley Cantina
Take in the sights and sounds of two dark alien metropolises.
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is only partly robotic
Finding a heart.
The secret to understanding The Swapper
What psychoanalysis has to do with the existential puzzler.
Playlist: three new videogames to play this week
Three particularly rad picks.
Pixel Rift is a virtual reality arcade game simulator, the most meta game ever
A game inside a game inside of virtual reality. Ouch.