Hatoful Boyfriend steps up the comedy game
Come for the pigeons, stay for the satanic undertones.
A comprehensive history of low-poly art, Pt. 1
How the Low-Poly aesthetic extends the timeless ideals of modern art.
Spreadsheet game 121 gives you a new, weird routine
Spreadsheets are awful and great. Here’s a game that makes them weird, too.
Kim Kardashian Hollywood isn’t a fantasy-it’s real
The monster social game breaks the fourth wall.
Blood-powered lamp will hopefully remind you to turn off the damn lights
Would we be less wasteful if light came at a personal cost?
We interviewed 3-year-old internet artist Yung Jake via text
None of this is real; all of it is.
Rituals presents the surreal fragmentation of narrative in a post-colonial India
In Ritual, you are the invasion on identity that defines colonization. Ritual reveals that fictions construct the reality around us,
Antbassdor is a finger-sized comedy by the Octodad team
The return of jankiness.
The ridiculous ads of Eve Online’s Alliance Tournament
A peek into the roiling hivemind.
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call is a trip through stolen time
On finding your way home.
A passel of new videogames that you might play, friend
A walk through psychedelic woods.
Check out the first trailer for the lovely, lo-fi platformer The Sun & Moon
You might recognize Daniel Linssen’s minimalist art style from the rogue-like Roguelight, featured on our playlist a few weeks ago. Now he’s back, with The Sun & Moon, a 2D action platformer that invites you to literally sink into the levels. The Sun & Moon originated in the 29th Ludum Dare competit
The garish psychotronic madness of Uriel’s Chasm nods to early Swans
The band Swans have two distinct phases. The first is grimy, industrial no-wave that churns and roils Tetsuo-like with dystopic paranoia and twisted sexuality. The second phase—their current one—is patient, unfurling twenty-minute art rock tapestries largely devoid of distorted guitars and far more
Making meaning out of the barren Sunless Sea
Every captain dies.
The secrets and the strangeness of Abstract Ritual
Here’s a game that evokes trading knowledge of videogame secrets in pre-internet playgrounds.
Fotonica, the prettiest running game ever, is coming to iOS this Thursday
Hyper-minimalist runner Fotonica is coming to iOS this Thursday. Developed by Italian design duo Pietro Riva and Nicolo Tedeschi, know together as Santa Ragione, Fotonica is not your average runner game. Pulling deep from their art and design backgrounds, Fotonica is a wireframe, minimal, trippy, th
A conversation with the British Library’s first-ever interactive fiction writer-in-residence
Apparently, the British Library is chock full of gaming fans. Go figure.
Turn your regular PC into a visual instrument with Ojoon EP
Take a break from work and do this.
Virtual reality’s mad scientists are trying to make our bodies disappear
When will we get rid of the controller and exist in virtual spaces?
Infinity of Flowers reveals the birth and death of flowers in real time
The circle of life is ever present and beautiful.
In Pathologic, everything is terrible and it’s all your fault
Get ready to feel stressed out and useless in a plague-infested town.
The Walking Dead’s season finale crystallizes the game’s uneasy morality
What those morals are remains up for grabs.
ULTRAWORLD is beautiful, but it hides a secret
Videogame or not (it is), ULTRAWORLD is undeniably mesmerizing.
Celebrate Binding of Isaac: Rebirth’s release date with this horrifying, NSFW trailer
The religious roguelike Binding of Isaac has been remade and expanded into Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, and it’ll be out on November 4 for Steam, PS4, and PS Vita. In an interview we conducted with Team Meat designer Edmund McMillen, McMillen mentioned that he “was fucking positive that Isaac would no
Check out these distorted 3D drawings that you can wear on your person
A fashion collection inspired by “the tension between the real and the virtual, between 2D and 3D.”