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Feel Battalion: the videogame logic of Inside Out
Pixar’s Inside Out is like Steel Battalion inside your head.
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My God, Cuphead still looks beautiful
A new trailer showcases the animated stunner in action.
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Mortal Kombat meets Nigerian politics in devastating satirical short
Nigeria, Africa’s largest exporter of oil, has recently been suffering from a severe oil shortage. The country’s fuel marketers and distributors have spent much of May on strike over government subsidies that have gone unpaid. In response to the strike, black market fuel prices have soared beyond th
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A 3D printed zoetrope brings a horrific biblical episode to life
Before Miyazaki, Disney, or much of what can be deemed modern animation, there was the zoetrope. Popularized in Victorian Britain, the zoetrope is a circular device upon which a series of frames are either painted or affixed. If spun at a sufficient speed, these frames appear to be in motion. In eff
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A pixel artist renounces pixel art
The “pixel tax” comes to collect.
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Studio Ghibli’s Spaces of Escape and Longing
The spaces we never occupy haunt us the most
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Give evolution the middle finger with Snakebird
It slithers and squawks.
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How a mountain and an octocat help us find peace on the Internet
Mountain and Octocat tell the story of life on the Internet
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Understand a priceless Kandinsky artwork better by absolutely wrecking it
It’s all done by clicking.
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Playlist: an elusive meditation on gender and intimacy
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. PLUG & PLAY (iOS) BY ETTER STUDIO At first glance, Plug & Play is a game about binary opposites. The screen flicks between black and white, and the primary actors are male and female plugs a
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A quick update from the uncanny valley, courtesy of this Scottish Mafioso
“Just blink if yer gettin’ this.”
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Republique shows that tablets can tell emotional, realistic stories
All it takes is a good actor to bring a story alive.