How does Wayward Manor fit into Neil Gaiman’s oeuvre? It doesn’t.
The wayward design of Wayward Manor.
Play Along: The Essay and the Game
What videogames can learn from nonfiction, and vice versa.
Rules! is a cute phone-sized dictator
Do as it says.
The post-privacy sim Nothing to Hide gets more timely every day
“Kanye West is worried a drone will electrocute his daughter” and “Kanye West: I fear electrocution by drone” are wonderful headlines. They’re exactly the sort of thing we expect from the rapper—sensational, emotional, Tweet-able. The truth, though, is a little more complicated. Our increasing adopt
The Night Trap revival only shows us how far we’ve fallen since 1992
Remember when violence against women was this lo-fi?
Depression Quest released on Steam to help those who need it
The best time is the worst time.
When the robots take our jobs, we’ll play games instead
A new survey forecasts a future of less work—and, presumably, a lot more play.
The insidious influence of blockbuster cinema on videogames
Going big, going home.
The strikingly minimalist Spacecom says only what it needs to
Space opera gets elegant.
Titanic explorer David Gallo sets his sights on videogames
Talking World of Tanks and ocean mysteries with titanicguy2010.
Path to Thalamus explores the tragedy of a comatose mind
Few things seem more maddening than being trapped inside your own mind. As revealed on an episode of Radiolab a few years back, coma patients often aren’t left in just blank unconscious like we imagine them to be. In the case of Emilie Gossiaux, who suffered a deadly collision with an 18-wheeler, sh
Particle Clicker teaches us the power of science (and mouse clicks)
Learn while you learn!
Disney uses 3D printing to make "impossible" spinning tops
Hannukah will never be the same.
"Hyperlapse" video gives new perspective to first-person film
Steady as she goes.
Reach the height of pleasure in Icarus
Socrates, be damned.
Mineblock envisions a troll-free Minecraft universe
Earlier this year, eight-year-old Jivan Armen logged onto a Minecraft server in his home in east Vancouver to start building something new, as millions of his peers do each day. Jivan loves roller coasters and had begun constructing one to transport sheep throughout his world. Then disaster struck.
New life-like avatars could leave some models out of a job
Sure, being a supermodel might not sound like the worst job ever. In the 90’s, Linda Evangelista famously said that she wouldn’t even get out of bed for less than $10,000. But behind every glamorous photo shoot littered with buckets of money, lies the all too real possibility of a short-lived career
Brendon Chung on Quadrilateral Cowboy and the joys of programming
Expressing yourself through hacking.
One way to get more new ideas in games: have teenage girls make them
Like popping bubble wrap. Popping bubble wrap is great.
The Walking Dead’s penultimate episode is strangely subdued
Things are quiet … too quiet.
Virtual art gallery lets you leap on Warhols
Feel free to touch the art.
Weighing war’s cost, The Sun Also Rises debuts today
Former art students explore the cost of war.
Fall down the rabbit hole of distress that is ALFA-ARKIV
Please don’t put me on some watch-list, Russia and/or NSA.
Normcore comes to videogames with Desert Golfing
“I feel that I have mastered difference, and now I want to master sameness.”
Dark Souls II: The Lost World
In its first batch of DLC, From Software looks (exclusively) to the past