Amazon’s Twitch acquisition shows games are still cultural underachievers
Ignore games at your own peril.
Imagining the apocalypse of The Day Google Street View Stood Still
If you’re like me, you’re someone who has a sneaking suspicion that Google will be our benevolent overlords by 2020. Google maps is tracking your every move. The company recently became armed with robots. And Google Street View has apparently figured out time travel technology (kind of). When Google
New Threes! poster goes against the grain
Cory Schmitz tackles Asher Vollmer’s iOS hit and others
Titan Souls drops a new trailer on you, killing you instantly
We’ve been watching Titan Souls since it emerged from Ludum Dare last year, a slim, four-boss experience made in three days that nevertheless featured remarkably confident art direction, music, and pacing. (In fact, we gave it a Playlist nod as soon as it emerged.) It has since septupled in size, th
How would Stanley Kubrick make a videogame? Ask Jack de Quidt.
On the beauty of mundanity, the long take, and slow videogames.
Death’s Gambit isn’t the strictly horizontal game it looks like
Following the White Rabbit.
Virtual reality will save games from itself
Do we really want to be scared?
The bootleg retro console culture of Brazil
Growing up with the Phantom System instead of the NES.
Friend and Foe releases new images from Vane’s dusty expanse
Former member’s of Last Guardian team are making something new–and dusty
Curtain imagines a grim alternative ending to Gone Home
“The trash of adolescence is all around and your relationship is just as grim.” Curtain’s garish visuals reflect the abusive relationship at its heart
Sunburn tells us it’s okay to die
Especially when holding hands with friends.
BoxPop brings out the chessmaster mathematician in you
In chess, there’s something known as a “a knight’s tour.” It’s a sequence of moves around the board where the knight visits every square only once and the problem has been a challenge for mathematicians to solve it since Swiss physicist Leonhard Euler tackled it the 18th century. If you didn’t know,
Frankenstein MD will both charm and creep you the hell out
Bad ass chick alert on high. Do not mess with Victoria Frankenstein.
Twitch gears up to conquer the final frontier: mobile
The live-streaming juggernaut wants your phone to be more than a second screen.
On playing Diablo for a very long time
Breaking news: Diablo still good.
Keeping the Cold War quiet in CounterSpy
Dapper on the outside.
Starve to death in the Canadian wilds next month with The Long Dark
The Long Dark is set to hit Steam Early Access on September 22. The game is being developed by Hinterland Games, which founder and creative director Raphael Van Lierop told us is situated in “an old mining town nestled at the foot of a mountain range” in Cumberland, British Columbia. The cold creeps
Let’s all leave this cold world and live in a LEGO house together
This week marked the groundbreaking of the LEGO House in Billund, Denmark, a massive structure that aims to be a sort of futuristic Mecca for Lego lovers, design nuts, and artists alike. The 8,500 square foot building isn’t just a building made of LEGOs or a building made to look like it’s made of L
Bow before your new god, this interactive tree of lights
Musician/tinkerer/muse Imogen Heap has created your new idol.
Videogames begin to respond to Ferguson
“Ferguson showed the world the best and worst in journalism.”
There are more adult women playing games than teenage boys. Duh.
This should be surprising to no one.
Here’s a bot that wants to make Twitter less awful
Social media, you can do better than this. “Twitter has, at best, provided vague efforts to address the problem at a glacial pace.”
"Literal street style" takes street fashion very literally
The hotbed of fashion is right outside your door
Act One of Maker’s Eden fails to set up story, substance, or anything
Pointing and clicking in nowheresville.
Charting the edges of avant-garde videogames
In 2014 the hot-button theoretical debate has moved on from “can games be art?” to “what is a game?”