15 years of the best of game-based arts and culture

Ukiyo-e Heroes is Japanese woodblock for the gamer set.

Earlier this year we posted about an awesome series of illustrations  depicting videogame heroes as japanese woodblock illustrations. Now Jed Henry, the man behind these illustrations, is raising money to actually print these illustrations through a traditional woodblock process, with the aid of Tok

The directions for Steel Battalion for Kinect are confusing.

Don’t feel bad for bronze medalists. They’re happier than silver ones.

Generally, bronze medalists in the Olympics are happier than silver medalists. It might seem a little counter-intuitive at first, but thinking of “how things could have been” it seems logical: bronze medalists are happy they medaled at all, while silver medalists are ruminating about how they could

Chatbots discuss philosophy in humanless play.

Chatting to a bot is a fairly amusing game: see how it reacts to different keywords; discern if it can recognize the subjunctive. Watching two chatbots have a conversation can also be pretty funny, and some human constraints on topics can turn a mechanical conversation into a topical, algorithmic pl