A play about male clinical depression is now also an interactive story

An Interview is not all black—little pops of colour occasionally surface—but you could be forgiven for thinking that you’ve fallen into a world of blackness. And so you have. An Interview is Manos Agianniotakis’ interactive adaptation of Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn’s play “Fake It ‘Til You Make

Stay, Mum is a tear-jerker about a strained mother-son relationship

According to Freud, one of the most traumatic events in a child’s early life can be watching his mother leave. Observing one child who, following his mother’s departure, would always joyfully fling his toys far away only to reel them back in and do it all over again, Freud deduced that this “game” w

A fascinating look at Museum of Simulation Technology’s perspective puzzles

The first time I saw Museum of Simulation Technology was at the Experimental Gameplay Workshop at GDC in 2014. A forced perspective puzzler about using visual tricks to navigate a labyrinthine dreamworld, it’s one of those charmingly clever games that’s just delightful to watch, especially for a new

What the stage play NieR: Automata is based on tells us about the game

[This article contains spoilers for NieR and Drakengard] The reveal of NieR: Automata‘s full title and the first proper story details this week was significant for two reasons: 1) Holy shit, more NieR, and this time it’s about machines?!, and 2) We discovered it’s based on a Japanese stage play call