Featured
15 years of the best of game-based arts and culture
Games, play, and culture with Jamin Warren
Become a subscriber
![[Talk 4/17] Building Worlds While the Actual World Burns](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/size/w800/format/webp/2026/04/Kara-Stone-Joshua-Dawson-Header.png)
PLAY OF THE DAY: Penny Time is a iOS skateboarding game that is finger-flicking good.
Video Did you ever use a fingerboard as a teen? I did and I’m glad Australian company Penny Skateboards has captured that in a flick-flipping side-scroller called Penny Time, made by IV Motion with a thumping soundtrack from Brisbanite Hunz. It’s somewhere between Bit.Trip Runner and Canabalt, a run
PAUSE: Captain Falcon teaches valuable life lessons through videogames.
[via What Video Games have taught us.]
NBC comedy Community ending its season with an 8-bit bang.
Community‘s latest season has been (I would argue) its best. As the show has been given more time to develop and spread out, it’s been able to really dissect television and what we love about it. Each episode has used and subverted television tropes to fantastic effect, commenting on genres and medi
Play of the Day: Parameters is the Piet Mondrian of RPGs
Parameters, available here in both English and Japanese, is the very abstract version of an RPG. It contains most of the elements of an RPG: monsters (the yellow bars), quests (the empty bars), items, stats, and leveling. Missing from the game are storylines, characters and graphics, but who’s count
Musical robotics? Glowing wires? All is game at NYU’s ITP Spring exhibition.
video Xavier Aaronson’s review for The Creators Project of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) spring exhibition demonstrates the importance of art, technology and play, Upon entering this year’s show, held this past Monday and Tuesday, I was greeted with a wonderful assault on the se
In the RPG of life, is "straight white male" the lowest difficulty setting?
NY Times best-selling writer and Stargate: Universe creative consultant John Scalzi takes a modern RPG approach to social justice. What ensues is satirical, “Eat the Poor”-esque essay on white privilege: Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest diff
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