15 years of the best of game-based arts and culture
Games, play, and culture with Jamin Warren
Become a subscriber
Play of the Day: Soundstory: 10:00pm is an iOS interactive "something"
Matthew LoPresti’s app, Soundstory: 10:00pm, can be found in the iOS app store, inconspicuously categorized under “Books.” However, if you’re in the mood for a familiar literary experience, move along. This experiemental, genre-bending piece of software, illustrated in grayscale pixel-art, shares li
Cheat Sheet 6/21: Journey/Flower/Flow get bundled, Metal Gear Solid 5 announced, Portal successor gets a console date
The 24-hour news cycle has dislodged and reached escape velocity. From its broken transmissions we have forged today’s headlines. -Thatgamecompany makes a nice bundle of its groudbreaking titles. -Metal Gear Solid 5 is going to happen. -From the designers of Portal, Quantum Conundrum was released t
Computer scientist uses game consoles to power 3D MRI of his diseased colon, hopes to revolutionize healthcare.
Perhaps a shameful realization of the misdirection of some of our best technology, rendering engines typically used to for immersive battlefields can now immerse you in the colon of Larry Smarr. In a new Atlantic profile and its companion video, Smarr baits scientists and hospitals to usher digital
Nintendo used to make cute, RC vacuum cleaners.
If it wasn’t for Mario, if people actually thought vacuuming could be fun, then Nintendo might still be making these tiny guys from 1979. The dimpled and curved lump called the Nintendo Chiritorie (“dustpan”) could only turn left and clean up toy spills. What, the sticker set wasn’t enough to sell i
Chairlift’s video for "Met Before" is a quantum romance.
So you’re suddenly attracted to someone, trapped in a nauseating, tangential game of circling around the beautiful pseudo-stranger until the only choice is appoach or run- perhaps for something better. Chairlift’s new video allows both: the payoff of seeing each dazzling/tragic outcome. The video be
Online writer’s platform threads interactivity with workshop.
Helping to deconstruct that choose-your-own-adventure books and novels are mutually exclusive in theory, the new online writer’s tool, http://writer.inklestudios.com, is a platform for spinning divergent narratives as well as editing them. It works to disarm prejudice a writer’s writer might hold fo
Subscribe to new posts
Processing your application
Please check your inbox and click the link to confirm your subscription
There was an error sending the email