News
A dice-roll gamebook holds Cuba's Axie Infinity collapse
Nestor Siré and Steffen Köhn compress years of fieldwork among players, sponsors and hackers into numbered sections and multiple endings.
anthropology
ecological art
What Would You Do If You Had to Find the Last Surviving Bees?
The Athens-based artist Kyriaki Goni on a woven basket gifted to her at 18, the ritual of telling bees about deaths and births, and building a speculative video game set in a near-future Aegean.
anthropology
Can AI-Powered Games Actually Teach Anthropology?
Anthropologist Michael Hoffman uses AI to transform ethnographic fieldwork into playable text adventures, bridging the gap between academic research and accessible learning.
interaction design
Lana Z Porter: Interaction revolutionizes connection
As Creative Director of R&D at The New York Times, Lana Porter harnesses emerging technologies to create novel ways for readers to connect with journalism, from 3D-modeled environments to AI-powered news interfaces.
Review
The Cave as Canvas: A Review of Far Cry Primal
Those who remember Banjo-Tooie (2000) with great fondness, as I do, may remember the ceaseless, bitter conflict between the Unga Bungas and the Oogle Boogles. The Unga Bungas are a warlike people, barely more than sentient beards with clubs; they get very mad when you try to sneak into their cave an