Great news, everyone! Unemployment is down to 5.1%, the lowest its been since 2008! The American dream is resuscitated, pumping a feeble yet confident fist up into the air. Well, except for millennials, that is, where unemployment is still at a resounding 13.8 % as of May 2015. Yeah, that’s right, i
A couple years ago, I had a job that required me to work late. I’d have to drive home on the verge of midnight a few days a week, through an unlit part of town I wasn’t very familiar with. There were jackrabbits in the field by the office. I saw one alive once. More often I’d spot them at night afte
Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, the Italian movie stars known for three decades of action-comedy, always deserved a videogame. A classic Spencer and Hill scenario is a mass brawl, the pair squaring off against a jittering hive of incompetent opponents, each punch over-exaggerated in gesture and sound
This is a story about a cheeky gambit that, by virtue of our covering it can only be said to have succeeded. So much for the journalist as a neutral force. But it’s a good, cheeky gambit, so let’s not get too bogged down in the observer effect. Seth van Heijster has created an interactive resume tha
A lot is going on at The Chinese Room at the moment. Perhaps not as much as before Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture was released, or necessarily more than any other studio out there, but what is going on is being documented in surprisingly personal and honest blogs. This is going to start off grim an
The difference between Cards Against Humanity and the sort of flashcards used for revision is, I suppose, that the latter can come in a greater range of colours. Sure, “a cat video so cute your eyes roll back and your spine slides out your anus” is not the typical exam prompt, but the mechanics are
Colorful going-outside sim Lovely Weather We’re Having has a release date of November 10th for PC and Mac. You can watch the Big Announcement in this totally real clip from the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Lovely Weather We’re Having is described as a “goal-free” game about spending time outside, chatting
On November 3rd we’ll continue the third installment of our new series on beautifully crafted mobile games. Join us at Betaworks Studio for great after-work talks from the creators of Swarm, SongPop, and the great student project Wukong – The Monkey King. Movable Play features valuable talks from in
Next week, head over to the Ace Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where we’ll be hosting Playlist, our monthly public arcade. The arcade will be open, and free, from six to eight, so come out and join us for some afterwork digital play–no costume required. This month, get inside the head of a videogame de
Can an album also be a videogame? Last year, chiptune artist George & Jonathan did it, with an interactive experience for their synth-pumping, hyper-colorful third album III. So did pop producer bo en, curating his own interactive accompaniment to his debut pale machine with a host of mini-games bas
Coming right off the tail of Davey Wreden’s The Beginner’s Guide, the other Stanley Parable co-creator William Pugh has begun teasing a new game of his own. The unnamed mystery game, described as “a weird puzzle,” will be the debut project for Pugh’s recently founded studio Crows Crows Crows. But as
Tale of Tales has revealed what its “non-game art project” Cathedral-in-the-Clouds is all about by launching a Kickstarter to fund it. The idea is to create a cathedral that you can enter through a virtual reality headset and then, from there, admire a series of dioramas located within its radiating
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Downwell (PC, Mac) BY Moppin In most games, falling is essentially akin to certain death. Step an inch over the edge, and the void is there to swallow you up and take some of your health alon
In case you weren’t already convinced that games are total bullshit, here’s a study in the New Scientist that claims the placebo effect—that noted scourge of hypochondriacs and homeopaths—also works in videogames. Ok, not everything is bullshit, but at least some of it is. The study at hand, which
Few games have topped the truly epic scale of Shadow of the Colossus and its iconic boss battles, but an upcoming game called Prey for the Gods looks like a worthy comparison. Created by No Matter, the recently revealed Prey for the Gods will have you battling huge deities on a frozen island in a jo
